[freespirited]

For entire interview go to http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041017/NEWS09/410170346/1056

[Jeff Head]

Nothing but a lame defense for Stolen Honor.

[Adrastus]

I think it wonderful when a liar and traitor is condemned out of his own mouth.

[Unam Sanctam]

The Winter Soldier conference Kerry alluded to in his broad brush accusation of war crimes by US soldiers in Vietnam has been shown to be largely a hoax by people who were neither in Vietnam or not in the positions that they claimed. Also, "free fire zones" are not in and of themselves war crimes -- they just mean that the soldiers can shoot at enemy combatants without authorization, not that they can shoot indiscriminately.

[starfish923]

Kerry's version of the "truth," that his fellow soldiers were murderers and rapists, was used as propaganda against the POW's.
We were still at war.

How in God's name can he justify that? How does he have the arrogance to think that ANYone in our military would support a commander-in-chief who did that to American POW's?

His arrogance is only surpassed by his total immorality. What he did was SO wrong that it defies credibility.

[Boundless]

Well, this pretty much rules out any chance the Swiftboat
Vets will stand down, not that it was ever terribly likely.

Kerry is going to have to contend permanently with the
spreading truth about his personal mythology of Vietnam,
and his subsequent betrayals.

Just something I've observed ... has this guy ever
apologized for anything? He seems to have a character
defect (one of many) that absolutely blocks it.

[Pharlap]

Kerry said he was proud of fighting against the war. He has said this before. Let me put it in the full context of what he said. David Broder (see his column "Swift Boats And Old Wounds', washingtonpost.com, August 24, 2004, at p.A17) cites a conversation he had with Kerry. Kerry told him that "he thought it would be doubly advantageous that 'I fought in Vietnam and I also fought against the Vietnam War.'" Broder goes on to observe that Kerry did not recognize that "some would see far too much political calculation in such a bifurcated record." Kerry has used calculation all along to self-promote. In this instance, he willfully has manipulated his Vietnam service and antiwar posturing as part of his distorted need to advance his political ambitions.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

Waddafuqnjerk!

[Jorge]

What happened to his recent admission that his 1971 testimony before Congress was a bit over the top?

Does this man ever stop contradicting himself?

[JstABrdPstr]

How about his quote from the article:
"No, I’m comfortable being endorsed by people, but I’m not familiar . . . actually, the questionnaire was not filled out by me personally, so I can’t tell you, but I’m not - I think you have to approach those things very thoughtfully and very carefully. There are a lot of people with a lot more expertise than me who I’d want to call on their advice before I start telling people what to do or not to do in that regard. "

I guess that is why he dropped all those names during the debate.

And what's with him not even knowing what his stances are and then not being willing to stand up for them???

Ugh.

[Trepz]

The only time in his life Kerry told the truth was when ........ well, I can't think of a single time he was truthful.

[stockstrader]

Yep, lots of INTEGRITY, INTEGRITY, INTEGRITY there--SMEARING (by calling them war criminals) the reputations of hundreds of thousands of good, honorable and decent soldiers serving their country for his own political self-aggrandizement! Thirty years after the slander/libel--still no apology.

Lots of INTEGRITY there.

[BunnySlippers]

But why not a link?