A year after he issued the committee report, on the night of January 26, 1994, Kerry was on the Senate floor pushing through a resolution calling on President Clinton to lift the 19-year-old trade embargo against Vietnam. In the debate, Kerry belittled the opposition, saying that those who still believed in abandoned P.O.W.'s were perpetrating a hoax. "This process," he declaimed, "has been led by a certain number of charlatans and exploiters, and we should not allow fiction to cloud what we are trying to do here." Dean was still in the race. Kerry instructed staff to destroy evidence of living prisoners of war.The article outlines his traitorous actions.
He wanted and needed Clinton to give Vietnam the green light on trade. Clinton did so.
This was done for a Kerry family member's financial dealings with Vietnam. It was all about money for Kerry.