Bob Kerrey admits Vietnam Massacre

BBC News ^ | 4/26/2001 | BBC News

[mtbopfuyn]

Silly journalist didn't bother proofreading but then again he may be smarter than I first thought. Heehee!

[verity]

BBC. YAWN!!

[Plain Old American]

"Kerry said al Qaeda had declared war on us, so we should declare war on them."

So he knew - shouldn't the commission be investigating why he didn't prevent 9/11?

Just once I would like to see a Republican turn an attack from the Democrats with "Where were you? You knew what we did and you did nothing."

[risk]

Good points. The Republican leadership has been most gracious.

[TrueBeliever9]

Kerrey needs to take a timeout and take of his own demons! The log in his eye is so huge - and he picks at the toothpick in others eyes! A hypocrite!

[M-cubed]

so little time..so many medals....BINGO!...less then 4 months in VN... when you subtract non combat orientation time and non combat clearing time it appears he was the dumbest and most unlucky SOB ever in country!!...Im guessing he spent less then 60 days in which he was exposed to actual combat conditions...In a nut-shell... jean "Forbes" kerry was resume building!.....think about it........umpteen purple hearts and he bleed less then a bitch dog in heat!!!....He should be ashamed of denigrating the honor of a purple heart...not proud of it!!!

[fightu4it]

Former Senator Bob Kerrey. That is K-e-r-r-e-y.

If both Senators did indeed kill civilians in Viet Nam it only proves that neither of them is/was fit to serve in the Senate.

[steplock]

Whoops - wrong kerry - kerrey ?

They are both murderers by their own admission ... war criminals who must be tried, convicted, and do what must be done to murderers. no? Why not execute baby killers?

Oh, I forgot, baby murder is a "choice"

[Ann Archy]

Kerrey has said of himself that he committed atrocities....both Kerry and Kerrey have admitted such. They have reaped shame on themselves.

[Smokin' Joe]

Precisely the desired effect, I am sure. Now all ills can be attributed to the other Kerr(e)y.

[nuconvert]

This story from 3 yrs ago? April 26, 2001?

[iconoclast]

Kerrey has said of himself that he committed atrocities....

I'm well aware of that sweet Anny, but until you and the other armchair Generals here have given BOTH of your legs in the service of your country, kindly shut up.

I'll cut some of them some slack, those that are too young or too stupid to know we're talking about the Senator from Nebraska, but for the rest of you ... kindly direct your invective at the politicians and not at the brave servicemen of that filthy war.

[Smokin' Joe]

Got Me. I didn't see the date.

[iconoclast]

PS

I meant to say ..brave and UNAPPRECIATED servicemen ..

[Unknowing]

President Nixon decorated Bob Kerrey with the Congressional Medal of Honor.

It seems that certain clandestine work was being done against vietcong infrastructure people, and this guy was part of it. The full story will probably never be told because it is rumored to have involved special operations. Nothing glamorous, in fact quite the opposite.

This is an old article, and back then JFn Kerry was supporting Kerrey. Now that he's the apparent frontrunner, JFn Kerry gains most by distancing himself from Bob Kerrey, no?

[piasa]

It's hard to tell just who th Bc is talking about here. But...

With John Effin' Kerry, the most important part of his record is what he did AFTER he returned, which was despicable and inexcusable.

He joined the VVAW, an organization funded by Fonda and the CPUSA. He undermined his fellow servicemen in a time of war and dishonored and lied about their service while making political hay with his own. He traveled abroad and consorted with the enemy to undermine the United states, the people of Vietnam, and betray American prisoners of war. He maintained his membership in the group when one of their leaders proposed the assassination of US leaders. The group actually took a VOTE on it, yet not one, not even Kerry, had the integrity to report the assasssination plot. He tried to deny his presence there, but was caught in his lying and still associates with the individual who proposed it to this day. He ran for ofice and used his brother to break in to his opponents' headquarters and steal for John Effin' Kerry's benefit.

He uses his position as Senator to make deals for his cousin with communist Vietnam for profit, helping his company obtain valuable Vietnamese real estate development contracts in exchange for promoting the interests of the Vietnamese government. He uses his position as Senator to make deals with Chinese nationals to give China missile technology in exchange for political donations. He voted to cut US intelligence capability - benefiting all of our enemies- to promote his radical vision of an America that cannot act independenty even in its own defense.

He rejected his medals and his scorned his own service- he should not be credited with that he himself has publicly scorned and thrown away, even if he secretly threw someone else's medals away because he could not part with what he needed so desperately to disguise his intenationalist agenda and dupe potential voters who might erronously assume he is a patriot instead of an international socialist serving foreign interests, not American ones.

And the only foreign 'leader' we know who has met Kerry after he made his claim was the terrorist leader of the IRA who met him in Boston recently.

Just the guy we need to confont terrorism. Maybe it takes one to know one. [/sarcasm]

So it would be te John Kerry's advantage to bring on Bob Kerrey- they are made for each other in that Kerrey could 'back up' Kerry's broadbrushed lies about American troops, at least in the eyes of the ignorant voters they need. They could try to cloud Kerry's internationalist agenda with Bob Kerrey's 'atrocities' (which he says others did but he verbally takes responsibility for without of course, actually taking any REAL responsibility for under the law.) I suppose some folks would think that a guy who could commit an atrocity against Vietnamese couldn't possibly be in bed with them, or with other foreigners.

And Kerrey's one-time vocalness in going after al Qaeda (which may or may not have be typical of his other comments during the nineties) would help cover for John Kerry's very dangerous weakness in foreign policy. Nevermind that with John Kerry, he may talk tough when in front of a crowd of veterans or soldiers, but will sing a totally different song of appeasement when he is spaking infron radical friends. Is Kerrey any different? Most leftists are two-faced and inconsistent since it maximizes their voter base.

Plus Kerry could add Kerrey's medals to the ones he spit on in the hopes that simple-minded voters would assume that so many medals, including self-awarded ones, always imply that the bearers have a love of country. Nevermind that history features a number of medaled men who committed terrible acts against their own citizens and nations.

[Ann Archy]

Kerrey didn't lose both legs.....and he ADMITTED to atrocities, so what's a person to do, just say..."YOU ARE A HERO"....you must think that Max Cleland is a hero also.

[iconoclast]

Kerrey didn't lose both legs.....

I KNOW he didn't lose both legs, you dingbat. I was implying that you hero evaluators should OUTDO him before you set yourselves in judgment of him.

I'm sorry one lost leg and the Medal of Honor doesn't impress you. I suspect you don't have personal memories of the Viet Nam War.

[Ann Archy]

You have no idea who you are addressing....I have PLENTY of memories of Viet Nam.

[stocksthatgoup]

Only Bob Kerrey is responsible for his shame