[Liz]

Jim Warner, a prisoner of the North Vietnamese in the Hoa Lo prison complex -- known to U.S. servicemen as the Hanoi Hilton -- remembers Kerry. He became acquainted with him, he said, when a North Vietnamese guard and interrogator the prisoners nicknamed "Boris" took Warner to the quiz shack in the complex's punishment camp called "Skid Row" in May 1971. During a four-hour propaganda and harassment session, Boris pulled papers from his pocket and gave them to Warner to think about, he said. Some were clippings from a leftist newspaper in the United States. The other was a typewritten transcript of Kerry's testimony before a U.S. Senate panel in which he repeated allegations of U.S. troops routinely committing atrocities, attacking the war and saying communism was not a threat in Vietnam.

Let's see former POW McCain's comments on this.

[citizen]

Add in the on-the-record-lie from FnKerry's on lips in the well of the Senate that he spent Christmas '68 in Cambodia when his commanders say otherwise.....I just hope more of the public is paying attention and see what a low-life lying fraud FnKerry is....typical Dim.

[upchuck]

By September 1 sKerry will be very sorry he decided to make the Viet Nam war the centerpiece of his campaign. I have a feeling those involved are just getting started.

Of course, what else could he have run on?

[fhayek]

Kerry was trying to be a magician. By trying to focus everyone's attention on the war hero nonsense he was holding in his one hand, he was hoping that people wouldn't notice the traitorous anti-war activities he held in his other hand. Looks like its all going to blow up in his face.

[Delta 21]

Kerry is a scoundrel and a traitor.

It is scary that a large part of the populous is behind him and will vote for him.

And when he looses the presidential race and goes back to doing the job he was elected to do (that he is not doing right now) will prosecution be sought for his aiding the enemy of the United States?

[redbaiter]

for later

[GretchenM]

This is all so macabre ... a little bit of gallows humor stuck out to me when I read this, describing Kerry as a young lieutenant:

Galanti said he didn't know Kerry's name then, although he had seen a newspaper photograph while in captivity that showed someone who looked like Lurch (a character in The Addams Family television show in the mid-sixties). ...

So he looked like Lurch even as a young man.

[Las Vegas Dave]

Pinging!

[Jim Noble]

I hate to rain on your parade, but everyone-and I mean EVERY LAST PERSON-who is going to vote against Kerry on this issue is already a Bush voter, and has been a Bush voter for a long, long time.

Kerry will be beaten over being the most liberal US Senator and over his policy votes, or he won't be beaten at all.

[gathersnomoss]

McCain should retire, yesterday.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

John Kerry must never, EVER see the presidency.

[Ciexyz]

My local news affiliate is giving the Kerry story a McCain spin, as in, "John McCain condemns the attacks against John Kerry's war records." End of story. That's all the public is being fed by the mainstream media.

[Eva]

I heard John McCain on FOX, back in December ( I think that it was Hannity and Colmes), say that John Kerry's anti-war activities were used to taunt them and demoralize them while they were imprisoned in Hanoi.

[USMCVet]

This is the part I'll never forgive John Kerry for - he betrayed us and he betrayed the whole country with his BS stories for the press and Congress.

The big question, still unanswered, is who wrote those statements he made? It sure as heck wasn't just him - and why did he meet with the North Vietnamese in Paris?

He is a traitor and should never have been elected Dog Catcher, much less a US Senator.