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(CNSNews.com) - Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry's 34-year-old testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will be broadcast Thursday night at 8 pm Eastern time on C-Span.   See schedule

STILL USEFUL AFTER ALL THESE YEARS [Ramesh Ponnuru] The Vietnamese government used Kerry's 1971 testimony as evidence of American war crimes--two months ago. (See the sixth paragraph.) http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/2004-06/10/Stories/16.htm

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On C-SPAN at 8:00 P.M. & 11:05 P.M. EDT

Here is the John Kerry Testimony including questions.(John Kerry Testimony) Here is the Testimony in .pdf formatTestimony pdf

Vietnam-era POWs are lining up to join the Swift Boat Veterans in attacking John Kerry’s readiness to lead the country. The POWs are breaking their silence on how John Kerry’s controversial anti-war activities -- particularly his testimony in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee -- were used to torment them while in captivity. The extent and fallout of Kerry’s anti-war activities are outlined in Unfit for Command, the fast-selling new book by John O’Neill and Jerry Corsi. (Human Events Online reported yesterday the book will vault onto the top of the New York Times Bestseller’s list on 9/5/04.) A...

Swift Boat Vets ads will air at 8:01 ET, followed by his full and complete testimony..

I heard on Bill Bennett's radio show this a.m. that CSPAN will televise John Kerry's 1971 appearance in it's entirety before the Senate at 8:00PM tonight.

.......Many of those who condemn Kerry for opposing the Vietnam War are too young to have been politically aware during that period. The rest are fighting very old battles. But the fact is that the argument over Vietnam was settled long ago, and a majority of Americans decided that Kerry was right. Members of the Swift boat group and like-minded Americans are free to try to re-litigate the basic Vietnam question. They say, from the comfortable perspective of 2004, that the antiwar movement emboldened the enemy and thus lengthened the war. That's their premise: We could have won the war...

Text of John F. Kerry's testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on April 22, 1971.

"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..." ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Every action produces a reaction. It's simple really.......... ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ You couldn't really call it a village. I'm not really sure what you would call it. It was just a collection of lean-to's...tents...

In the Vietnamese Communist War Remnants Museum (formerly known as the "War Crimes Museum") in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), a photograph of John Kerry hangs in a room dedicated to the anti-war activists who helped the Vietnamese Communists win the Vietnam War. The photograph shows Senator Kerry being greeted by the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Comrade Do Muoi. Senator Kerry may argue today that his anti-war protests did not render support to the enemy in time of war and that his activities did not violate the definition of treason given in Article III, Section 3,...

Kerry Lied......Good Men Died!! In sworn testimony before a Senate committee, John Kerry falsely accused American soldiers of atrocities in VietNam. He also admitted that HE committed atrocities in VietNam. If Kerry lied to Congress, he should be held in contempt, and charged with perjury. If he told the truth he should be arrested and court martialed. Read his entire testimony, and make sure you vote in the poll: Should a man who falsely accused American troops of atrocities be Commander-In-Chief?? The hypocracy of John Kerry is staggering..........

A new, 40-page (148K bytes) PDF of John Kerry's 1971 Senate testimony has been posted at WinterSoldier. The PDF is also blogged at my weblog. Unlike the widely publicized PDF of images of the Congressional Record pages, this one is neat, clean, and legible.

<p>Discrete facts, to say nothing of truth, have a rough time in presidential campaigns.</p> <p>When Sen. John Kerry called President Bush's supporters "the most crooked lying group I've ever seen," his campaign spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said Mr. Kerry didn't regret his words and then accused the "Republican attack machine" for smearing the Democrats. Such exchanges may be par for the course in a hotly contested presidential race, but overheated rhetoric may not be Mr. Kerry's most grievous fault.</p>

Thank you very much, Senator Fulbright, Senator Javits, Senator Symington and Senator Pell. I would like to say for the record, and also for the men sitting behind me who are also wearing the uniforms and their medals, that my sitting here is really symbolic. I am not here as John Kerry. I am here as one member of a group of 1,000, which is a small representation of a very much larger group of veterans in this country, and were it possible for all of them to sit at this table, they would be here and have the same...

An Open Letter to John KerryBy Larry PurdyFrontPageMagazine.com | March 26, 2004 Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle---before he turned against his country.  Hitler        was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran of the First World War.  Being a war hero is not a lifetime . . . exempt[ion] . . . from responsibility for what you do thereafter. -- Thomas Sowell. [1]Not that long ago you wrote a letter to President Bush in which you accused him of reopening the wounds of the Vietnam war for “personal political gain.”  Putting aside the stunning hypocrisy of your claim in view...

From B. G Burkett's great book, "Stolen Valor," pp. 130-138:The TribunalsOn January 31, 1971, an organization called Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) convened what came to be known as the Winter Soldier Investigation. Some of the major organizers included Jane Fonda, Dick Gregory, Phil Ochs, Graham Nash, David Crosby, and actor Donald Sutherland. For four days in a hotel in Detroit, "veteran" after veteran told grisly tales of horror of using prisoners for target practice and throwing them out of helicopters, of cutting off the ears of dead VC, of burning vil­lages and gang-raping women. Lawyer and activist Mark...