"May 18,1971"--(Evil Exists)

April 22, 1971 -- John Kerry testifies on behalf of the VVAW before the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs. He claims that American soldiers had "personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan..."

I'm not really sure what you would call it. It was just a collection of lean-to's...tents and just plain 'any-spot-in-the-storm-will-do' types of shelters.

It was as if the old people and the young people had walked as far as they could...and it was just the spot that they stopped and tried to put together a reasonable image of their lives. It had water and was somewhat close to a road.

And...it was as far as they could go to get away from the war....and the soldiers of the NVA(North Vietnamese). The same NVA that had driven them away from the highlands of Vietnam. From their homes....from their lives.

That little spot in the road had around 25 people living there...mostly the old but a few young. One of them was pregnant. Luckily,for awhile anyway, a Medical Mission was nearby.

We used to patrol that area around every 3-4 days. Nothing major..just a platoon. The LT. liked to call that patrol his 'breaking-in' for newbies...for those who had just arrived 'in country'. It gave you a feel for the landscape...and it reminded the newbies that altho we were Air Cav....we also were expected to walk to earn our money.

On one patrol..we found out that the Medical Mission had left the area...and the pregnant woman was about to give birth. Being the only person on the patrol to even remotely have Medical training...( I served as a Medic)...I was volunteered by the LT. to help with the birth. One of the really old (ancient comes to mind) women knew about child-birth but was physically unable to help. Since we had a ARVN(South Vietnamese) interpreter along...I became her hands...as long as the ARVN interpreter could keep up.

The child was born into the world on May 15,1971. A little girl...all healthy as could be. We left her in the arms of her proud mother...and finished on with the patrol. (and I got the ribbing of my life about the whole thing...good natured...but it lasted for days).

The NVA activity started to pick up in the area. It seemed as if they thought we wouldn't fight back if we saw them...or came under fire. They started to get a little bolder....as they were sending out lots of patrols into the area around Pleiku..and further south.

On our next patrol into that area...we ran into a NVA patrol. Had a small firefight. Had to only work on a few minor wounds.

Then we came upon the small little spot...where the old and young had stopped to try and live.

The lean-to's were burned....the tents torn. Fire was still burning some of the bigger shacks.

The old and young people had been lined up and made to kneel...where they had had a gun pressed to the back of their heads. I know this is what happened...as each of them had a hole in the backs of their head...one made by a bullet.

The boot marks on the ground (that red dirt that seemed to exist everywhere in Vietnam)...were of standard issue NVA. So...the people who had done this were probably NVA.

I checked all that I could ...looking for even a glimmer of life. There was none.

I searched the area..(with my back being watched by my Platoon Sgt.)...and came across them a few yards into the bush.

The young mother lay on the ground...and bullet hole in her head and laying in her arms was her baby daughter.

This is the 3rd time I've talked about that day in 30 plus years. I'm not sure if I can talk about it again ever.

30 plus years ago...a self-serving ex-sailor sat before Congress and lied to them about the behaviour of American Soldiers. Lied to them in order to make himself look good. Lied to them in order to further his own ambitions.

And now...that same liar ...that same self-serving arrogant bastard is running for President.

I cannot prove it...but I have always believed that the actions of people like Kerry...facilitated the death of that young mother and her baby.

I would hate to think of a world...were someone like Kerry had as much power as a President of the United States has.

And while Kerry was lying his head off in 1971:

1970s : (USSR : RUSSIAN GENERAL PRIMAKOV RUNS IRAQ'S WMD WEAPONS PROGRAM) In the late 1970s, Gen. Primakov ran Saddam's weapons programs. After that, as you may recall, he was promoted to head of the Soviet foreign intelligence service in 1990, to Russia's minister of foreign affairs in 1996, and in 1998, to prime minister. What you may not know is that Primakov hates Israel and has always championed Arab radicalism. He was a personal friend of Saddam's and has repeatedly visited Baghdad after 1991, quietly helping Saddam play his game of hide-and-seek. - "Russian Collusion in Iraq," By Ion Mihai Pacepa, Washington Times , August 22, 2003

1971 : (IRAQ : NUCLEAR PROGRAM : IAEC BEGINS A SECRET NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM : HAMZA IS RECRUITED TO DEVELOP A PLAN FOR AQUIRING NUCLEAR WEAPONS) A secret nuclear weapons program is initiated by the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC). The newly appointed chairman of the physics department of the Nuclear Research Center (NRC) is Dr. Khidhir Hamza. Hamza is approached by the two men in charge of the IAEC, the secretary-general, Dr. Moyesser al-Mallah, and the newly appointed director of the NRC, Husham Sharif, both Baath party members. Al-Mallah and Sharif request that Hamza develop a plan for acquiring nuclear weapons, one that uses an ambitious and carefully designed civilian nuclear program as a guise to obtain the technology, skills, and infrastructure required to successfully create a nuclear arsenal. [Note: Whether at the direction of Saddam Hussein or simply as a ruse to generate revenue for the poorly funded nuclear program, it is unclear who or what prompted the two scientists to approach Hamza with the idea of building a nuclear weapon.] —Khidhir Hamza with Jeff Stein, Saddam's Bombmaker: The Terrifying Inside Story of the Iraqi Nuclear and Biological Weapons Agenda (New York, NY: Scribner Press, 2000), p. 64; "Iraq's Nuclear Weapons Program: From Aflaq to Tammuz," . - "Iraq Nuclear Weapons Program—An Annotated Chronology"

1971 : (IRAQ : NUCLEAR PROGRAM : HAMZA PURCHASES IRAQ'S FIRST MAINFRAME COMPUTER) Dr. Khidhir Hamza is responsible for purchasing Iraq's first mainframe computer. The IBM 360/135 mainframe will eventually become the centerpiece of the clandestine nuclear weapons program. —Khidhir Hamza with Jeff Stein, Saddam's Bombmaker: The Terrifying Inside Story of the Iraqi Nuclear and Biological Weapons Agenda (New York, NY: Scribner Press, 2000), pp. 21, 72. - "Iraq Nuclear Weapons Program—An Annotated Chronology,"

JANUARY 8, 1971 : (URUGUAY, BRITISH AMBASSADOR KIDNAPPED) British ambassador to Uruguay Sir Geoffrey Jackson kidnapped and held for eight months by Tupamaros terrorists, demanding the release of political prisoners.

MAY 1, 1971 : (ANTI-WAR PROTEST) Anti-war march on Washington, its staff director was David Gelber. He got into network television news, did some producing for Dan Rather, and he ended up as senior producer for Ed Bradley's "60 Minutes."- "Socialist Lobotomies," Notra Trulock, Newsmaxcom, July 29, 2002

MAY 5, 1971 : (DELLUMS ATTEMPTS TO INSTIGATE 'MUTINY') With the United States still engaged in the Vietnam War, Congressman Ron Dellums spoke to demonstrators on the steps of the Capitol while standing under a Vietcong flag which someone had attached to the building’s balcony. And as related in the 1972 edition of Current Biography, he "began his own investigation of army conditions in the spring of 1971 by dropping in on short notice at military posts around the United States and speaking to rank-and-file soldiers, encouraging them to oppose the war in Vietnam...."

MAY 11, 1972 : (RED ARMY FACTION ATTACKS US ARMY HQ) US Army headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, attacked by Red Army Faction car bomb killing one American officer and injuring thirteen people. Three more US servicemen injured in another Red Army Faction car bomb attack on the US Army headquarters at Heidleburg, Germany, later in the month.

MAY 17, 1971 : (TURKISH & PALESTINIAN TERRORISTS ASSASSINATE ISRAELI CONSUL GENERAL) Turkish radicals assassinate Israeli consul general in Istanbul, Turkey, as part of a joint operation with Palestinian terrorists.

SEPTEMBER 26, 1971 : (CAMBODIA) Seabee wounded and Marine Security Guards killed and wounded during Terrorist attack on US Embassy softball game,Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

NOVEMBER 12, 1971 : (VVAW ASSASSINATION PLOT : VVAW KANSAS CITY CONFERENCE ) Two-thirds of the American troops in Vietnam at the height of American commitment in 1969 had already been withdrawn in the “Vietnamization” policy in effect at the time of the VVAW Kansas City conference in November 1971. When asked recently [2004] by the Sun why the assassinations still seemed necessary, Mr. Camil replied: “The war was still going on. We had to stop it.”- "John Kerry's Political Friends," by Thomas H. Lipscomb, NY Sun via FrontPagemagazine.com, 3/15/04

NOVEMBER 17-21, 1971 : (KC : VVAW MEETING DISCUSSING ASSASSINATION OF SENATORS) The Kansas City meeting of VVAW discussing assassination was November 17-21, 1971, and Stennis was shot January, 1973 by two African-Americans.- 22 posted on 03/23/2004 11:20:26 PM PST by PhilDragoo

NOVEMBER 20, 1971 : (TERRORIST BOMBING OF AIRCRAFT) CVL plane crashes at sea off Penghu with bombs planted by terrorists, killing 25.

NOVEMBER 28, 1971 : (BLACK SEPTEMBER ASSASSINATES JORDANIAN PRIME MINISTER, LATER JORDANIAN AMBASSADOR) Jordanian prime minister Wasfi Tal shot and killed by Palestinian Black September terrorists at the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo, Egypt.A month later the Jordanian ambassador in London, England, is shot and wounded by a Black September hit squad.

DECEMBER 4, 1971 : (IRELAND, UVF BOMB CATHOLIC AREA) Protestant Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) terrorists explode bomb in Catholic area of Belfast, Northern Ireland, killing fifteen civilians.

Welcome to FR. I have been here since Sept 30, 1998 under another screenname, though. I am a 22 year veteran of the US Marine Corps, ('70 - '92). I can tell you that for many years during my military service I had no opinion on politics because I knew my duty was to serve the commander in chief regardless.

I was raised a catholic and Democrat, and as you know, most folks get their religion and politics from their parents. I bought all the lines about Democrats being for the little guy and the Republicans were for the BIG guys only.

Bill Clinton changed all that for me. He was a certified draft dodger and I was full of disdain for him, as I do for all draft dodgers. His candidacy came right after I was ending my military career. I realized that I had the responsibilty to be concerned about politics as a citizen.

I read and researched many things regarding politics and military things. It was a bit confusing for me. I recalled John Glenn, a Marine pilot and astronaut hero whom I held in high regard and he was a Democrat. But what I came to see was the pure partisanship of the Democratic party. I also saw how the Democratic party had significantly moved from working class party to a socialist party. I recalled how when I was active duty, we got very limited funding under the dems, and how Reagan took good care of us, funding wise.

Your friend would do good to research how the GOP is the party is behind the concept of individual freedom, and the dems are all about group identity. They use the group think to promote themselves, NOT the people.

Thank your friend for his service to our country abd encourage him to research Kerry and how he used the Vietnam for his own personal political gain, and sold out his fellow veterans.

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