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Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry and Vietnamese-American Organizations Coalition Announce Plans For A Protest Demonstration Against John Kerry Where: New York City, 373 Park Avenue South (between 26the and 27the Streets) across from Kerry's campaign headquarters Date: February 28, 2004 Time: 12:00 noon Coalition spokesman: Jerry Kiley, New York spokesman and demonstration coordinator can be reached at 845-947-3058. Mike Benge, a US POW in Vietnam for 5 years is available for interviews at 703- 698-8256 Peter Nguyen, General Council of the Vietnamese Community of NY, will be available for interviews at 718-892-9500 Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry (V.V.A.J.K) has formed...

VIETNAM has been the defining issue for John Kerry. His status as a decorated war hero has helped to propel him to the front of the pack of Democrat candidates seeking to evict George W.Bush from the White House. Conservative critics believe he has been given a free ride for too long on his war record, however, and are planning a fightback. Support for their case is expected to come from a book to be published next month by reporters from The Boston Globe in Kerry's home state of Massachusetts. The book, JF Kerry, the Complete Biography, will question the...

Vietnam Vets Blow Kerry's HypocrisyBy Joseph Grant Swank (bio) Other Articles by Joseph Grant Swank Jr. Back to News / Home PageHe boasts on an armed services record on behalf of the United States of America. Yet he was anti-US when in the armed services. Hypocrisy in its most elementary form. No wonder the Vietnam Vets are not tolerating John Forbes Kerry’s hypocrisy harangue stretched out. He said in his address to Yale University classmates at the 1966 graduation: "The United States must, I think, bring itself to understand that the policy of intervention that was right for Western...

<p>John Forbes Kerry, who has voiced his presidential aspirations since high school, criticized America's "intervention" in Vietnam before going to the war, confirmed his beliefs during five months of duty there and returned to build a career in politics based on his opposition to it.</p>

(CNSNews.com) - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry downplayed any threat posed by the communist government of North Vietnam in his 1971 book The New Soldier and instead charged that American soldiers "were killing women and children" and helping to create "a nation of refugees, bomb craters, amputees, orphans, widows, and prostitutes..." in Vietnam. The book, a copy of which CNSNews.com has obtained, is very difficult to find 33 years after it was written. Single copies of the book are reportedly selling for as high as $849.95 on the Internet. The cover of the book displays long-haired, bearded men carrying an...

These days former Vietnam war POW Sen. John McCain has nothing but praise for his fellow Vietnam veteran, Sen. John Kerry, the Democrats' current presidential front-runner. But after he was released from the Hanoi Hilton in 1973, Sen. McCain publicly complained that testimony by Kerry and others before J. William Fullbright's Senate Foreign Relations Committee was "the most effective propaganda [my North Vietnamese captors] had to use against us." "They used Senator Fullbright a great deal," McCain wrote in the May 14, 1973 issue of U.S. News & World Report. While he was languishing in a North Vietnamese prison cell,...

John Kerry: The Chameleon Senator By Ted Sampley U.S. Veteran Dispatch October-December 1996 Issue Despite the prayers and wishful thinking of POW/MIA families and Vietnam veteran activists, Sen. John Forbes Kerry, the "chameleon" senator from Massachusetts, was re-elected to the Senate in the 1996 election. Apparently Kerry's well publicized history as a longtime radical supporter of the Vietnamese communists and a recent flap about whether or not he is guilty of a war crime meant very little to the voters in Massachusetts. Sen. Kerry, the "noble statesman" and "highly decorated Vietnam vet" of today, is a far cry from Kerry,...

Ted Sampley, a businessman from Kinston, N.C., operates a Web site that features attacks on Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, for his anti-war activities after his military service in Vietnam. But Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., may be more upset than the targeted Democratic presidential front-runner, according to the New York Times. McCain, also a Vietnam veteran and former POW, came to the defense of Kerry on Friday, calling Sampley "one of the most despicable people I have ever had the misfortune to encounter." Among other things, the Web site, www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com, features the now infamous photo of Kerry at a rally, sitting...