Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney (Ret.)
Posted on 08/28/2004 2:48:52 AM PDT by beyond the sea
Vietnam veteran-turned-military analyst Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney said Thursday that John Kerry's 1971 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee portraying Vietnam soldiers as "monsters" would have been consider ground for treason charges in an earlier day.
"There is deep, deep anger for a man who, if he had done this during World War II, would have been tried for treason," McInerney told ABC Radio's John Batchelor.
Noting that two of his brothers also served in Vietnam, where one died, McInerney said, "He betrayed us . . . He betrayed not only my personal family but my [West Point] classmates and all the veterans that were over there."
Referring to the portion of Kerry's testimony where he accused his fellow soldiers of routinely committing barbaric acts on Vietnamese civilians, McInerney told Batchelor, "We did not do those things that he claimed that we did."
McInerney said Kerry's testimony was largely responsible for creating the negative stereotype of Vietnam veterans, noting that many of his fellow soldiers were greeted "babykillers" when they returned from the war.
On Kerry's decision to make his Vietnam service the centerpiece of his presidential campaign, McInerney said, "He picked a scab that he should not have."
And now Kerry is doing it again. Kerry is lower than low.
Any true and accurate profile of this "man" would show a seriously psychologically ill human.
And we thought the last Democrat in the presidency was sick!
I hope so. But Dems aren't FOR Kerry as much as they are against Bush. I think the the Dems would acually vote for Jeffrey Dahmer, just to get Bush out.
GLUB GLub Glub glub glubzzzzzzzzz
Sank 33 years ago.
Artificial reef now.
Is The Queen of Darkness, Hillary Rotten , Her Lowness, Her Royal Thighness, Chappaqua Rose, The Lady in Pink, Rodham Hussein, The Fat Bottomed Girl in the wings if the ship sinks. Is that one of the reasons McCurry was sent into Kerry's camp?
I'm so grateful that Gen. McInerney is speaking out against this traitorous creature! Hopefully, men of his stature calling a spade a spade will open a few Demonrat eyes!
Woo! Can I get an amen??
Amen!
Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney (Ret.)
One good guy!
That's for sure. A few hundred thousand more like that and we would get our country back.
Kerry's Vietman service is dominating the news and there is no doubt he lied about his medals, his commands, and his fellow soldiers. However, every news source is tying or at least insinutating a tie) this smear to President Bush. We are the choir, we know the truth. Yet every speech by Kerry or his surrogates reiterates the lie - a connection between the President and the SBVFT - and the media is playing these clips over and over. I'm afraid this is becoming the story rather than the facts as presented by the Swift Boat Vets.
and the only reason Kerry wasn't indicted IMO was that there was never a "declaration of war"...
But Kerry's actions and words were treasonous!
No doubt!
Semper Fi,
Kelly
Why?
This is way beyond bewildering. This nation is voting for a new Commander in Chief and Kerry is a total fraud and a traitor. Yet, George Bush acts like he wants Kerry to be president.
I have never been so disgusted.
Bush can't and shouldn't say anything about this issue (the Vietnam service anyway). It's not his fight. If he did make it an issue then the press would have a field day claiming politics as usual. They are saying it now but it rings hollow with everyone but the most ardent Bush hater and they come across that way in the news.
I hope the vast majority of voters will see this guy and his party for what they really are. If Kerry does get elected it will also tell us a bit about our county that we probably don't really want to know but we do need to realize if it's true.
Mr. Kerry's "testimony" was not a courtesy extended by the Committee to the "other side" -- the Committee under Fulbright was the other side!
During Kerry's disparaging, abusive assault on truth and our Republic he was interrupted by applause. The interruptions brought this response from Chairman Fulbright: "I hope you won't interrupt. He is making a very significant statement. Let him proceed."
At the end Fulbright gushed, "I think it is extremely helpful and beneficial to the committee and the country to have you make such a statement."
Who is J. William Fulbright? You youngsters under fifty may not know.
Comparing the Vietnam War to the French experience and how they exited, Fulbright said, "I have personally advocated that this is the best procedure. It is a traditional rather classic procedure of how to end a war that could be called a stalemate, that neither side apparently has the capacity to end by military victory, and which apparently is going to go on for a long time. Speaking only for myself, this seems the more reasonable procedure."
Mr. Kerry responded that the U.S. withdrawal should be immediate, unilateral and "be the earliest possible date." We should quit the stalling, it's our fault, he said.. "I have been to Paris. I have talked with both delegations at the peace talks [he ain't talking about both sides!], that is to say the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government and of all eight of Madam Binh's points it has been stated time and time again, and was stated by Senator Vance Hartke when he returned from Paris, and it has been stated by many other officials of this Government, if the United States were to set a date for withdrawal the prisoners of war would be returned."
After acknowledging that Congress cannot end the war Fulbright opines "We can, of course, express ourselves in a resolution or we can pass an act which directly affects appropriations which is the most concrete positive way the Congress can express itself."
So here is the the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government testifying before Congress in the person of Mr. Kerry. They are most welcomed by the Chairman, other members, and far too many all across America.
http://www.nationalreview.com/document/kerry200404231047.asp
Alas, however by 1971 IMO it had already become too late. Thanks mostly to the antics of our press (General Giap's "most valuable guerillas") we encouraged the enemy to keep fighting and we missed the opportunity to end the war (two years?) sooner. It was time to end it -- and the "anti-war" left had their way: the war would end on the Enemy's terms.
I have heard too many conservatives say that we should not be "fighting" the War all over again. As far as the conditions that forced our troops to stand by and watch our Nation surrender here at home -- after all that they had sacrificed and accomplished for our Republic -- yes! we should be fighting to see how it happened and who caused it! We know about human error (no-win policy, etc.) what about TREASON!
Yes, what about treason -- knowing who and how back then JUST MIGHT SAVE OUR BUTTS TODAY!
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