The communists have been using this tactic for many, many years. We've watched it here in our country since the 1920s and as the "youngsters" of the communists have come to maturity, they continue to practise this. Those who do not know the truth, will never know it, they will believe the lying presstitutes, unless those of us who know the truth speak out. We must, we can no longer be the silent majority.
One truth is, it wasn't just John Kerry.
Kerry was not alone at that committee hearing. Sen Fulbright, et al. knew very well what Kerry's "testimony" would be. Fulbright, et al. never approved of fighting against Communist wars of liberation. They were not looking to see what "the other side" ("anti-war" groups) was saying. The Committee under Fulbright was the other side.
Read beyond Kerry's opening statement. He was representing the "Democratic Republic" of North Vietnam and the revolutionary "government" of South Vietnam, both groups met with Kerry in Paris.
The discussion among Kerry, Fulbright, and others on the Committee make it clear that the purpose was to end the war on any terms easily acceptable by the enemy.
To make it clear IMO, not long after the Tet Offensive disaster for the enemy the Kerrys, Fulbrights, press pukes, and many other leftist Americans had so distorted the war reporting, tarnished the U.S. administrations, and maligned U.S. forces in the eyes of the public that to ask the military to continue was meaningless, irrational, and deadly. No one should go to battle when the country has already decided to surrender the war and is just waiting for the politically opportune time.
But let's today get behind the swift boat and all vets to find out how it happened that the country decided to surrender but didn't tell the troops so that the left does not make surrender an option this time!