[mabelkitty]

If he's in the Communist Museum, then how can Koppel say these peasants don't know anything about him?

That makes no sense. He's running for the President of the US, and Koppel's witnesses are Communists.

Does he think the man who has business in Vietnam wouldn't have contact with them, or is he saying they can't read?

This makes no sense.

[NutmegDevil]

I have read that JF'nK's brother, Cameron, was awarded contracts with Hanoi just after JF'nK's whitwash of the Vietnam POWs congressional committee review in the 90s. Was the included in Mr. Koppel's NightLine report?

[ok42day]

In "Unfit for Command" they have pictures of that picture (Jane Fonda is in there too)in the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City. And also witnesses who went in there more than once just to make sure and to take the above stated pictures. I know, I find it totally unbelievable. I think the Swiftees should have put THAT in one of their ads (maybe they did and I didn't see it). If you have a chance, read (even at the library) "Unfit for Command", powerful, powerful stuff.

[airborne]

Just explain-just explain to me, if you can, why do you think it is that a bunch of peasants in a truly remote part of southern Vietnam would have an interest in making up stories that would somehow benefit John Kerry and raise questions about your version of that particular incident. What motive could they possibly have?

You're absolutely correct! Kerry is a hero to the Vietnamese and honored in their War Mueum. Of course they know who he is!

[angkor]

how can Koppel say these peasants don't know anything about him?

Koppel would like to bamboozle the American public into thinking these villagers are completely isolated from the outside world.

Nonsense. Somewhere in that village is a TV, and Hanoi is very good about broadcasting international news (my wife's relatives even knew about the DC snipers).

They know who Kerry is. And they know he was in Vietnam.