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Just an FYI that the local Vietnamese-American newspapers in Northern Virginia are running front page coverage of Kerry's VVAW activities. Sorry my translation capabilities are so feeble, otherwise I'd post some of the articles here (and none of the papers have web sites for electronic text to run through online translators). Suffice it to say that the papers are quite critical of Kerry. One paper has two photos of Jane Fonda from her 1972 Hanoi trip on the section A2 jump. Two papers run the Newsmax.com Kerry/Fonda photo on the front page, above the fold. If anyone would know about...

Kerry stand upsets some Vietnamese By Quynh-Giang Tran, Globe Correspondent, 8/14/2002 Organizers say that more than 200 Vietnamese expatriates and their supporters from around the country will gather at Senator John Kerry's office starting Sunday to protest his efforts to prevent US aid from being tied to Vietnam's human rights record. The Vietnam Human Rights Act, a bill passed in the House of Representatives last September by a vote of 410 to 1, would restrict nonhumanitarian aid such as economic and agricultural development unless President Bush and the US Department of State certifies that Vietnam is making progress on human...

During his war protest days in the early 1970s, Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry once denounced the United States of America as "the real criminal" in the Vietnam War. In comments first reported by the New York Times 33 years ago, Kerry condemned the entire country as "criminal" during a 1971 demonstration on Wall Street, a few weeks after the trial of Lt. William Calley. "Guilty as Lieutenant Calley may have been of the actual act of murder, the verdict does not single out the real criminal ... the United States of America," railed the future Democratic presidential hopeful. The...

Specifically, the newly discharged Navy veteran [John Kerry] was an advocate of the so-called "People's Peace Treaty," a tome reportedly drafted up in communist East Germany. Its nine points closely followed the enemy Viet Cong's proposals being touted at the Paris peace talks as a quid pro quo for ending the fighting. What rankles many Vietnam veterans today is that Kerry's blatant advocacy of the enemy's position occurred while hundreds of captured American fighting men suffered and languished as prisoners of war in North Vietnamese prisons.....

On February 28, at 12 noon, the Tri-State Chapter and all other freepers in good standing (and all those who are willing to obey the usual standards at protests) will join Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry and Vietnamese Americans Against John Kerry to protest against the Democratic front-runner, who has "aided and abetted the communist government in Hanoi," according to Dan Tran,of VAAJK. The protest will take place across the street from the NYC Kerry headquarters at 373 Park Avenue South, between 26th and 27th Streets. Various talk-show hosts on WABC Radio have been publicizing this protest, and Jerry Kiley,...

Naples Daily News   To print this page, select File then Print from your browser URL: http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/pe_columnists/article/0,2071,NPDN_14960_2659628,00.html Morton Kondracke: Bush's 9/11 vs. Kerry's VietnamBy MORTON KONDRACKE, Newspaper Enterprise AssociationFebruary 17, 2004Both Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and President Bush have had a searing life experience. For Kerry, it was the disaster of Vietnam. For Bush, Sept. 11, 2001. It makes all the difference in their foreign policy views. While a valiant, decorated combatant, Kerry entered public life condemning the Vietnam War, and his career-long record is one of opposition to uses of American force and the weapons systems needed to...

<p>February 17, 2004 -- Sen. John Kerry spent much of the weekend in Wisconsin going on about how he "stood up against Richard Nixon and his war in Vietnam." Now, it's true that time seems to have begun for Kerry when he mounted the national stage back in 1971.</p>

<p>February 17, 2004 -- Sen. John Kerry spent much of the weekend in Wisconsin going on about how he "stood up against Richard Nixon and his war in Vietnam."</p> <p>Now, it's true that time seems to have begun for Kerry when he mounted the national stage back in 1971.</p>

...Good soldiers do their duty and keep their mouths shut. They don't come home to criticize their country's mission while others are still fighting. But that, in his view, is what Kerry did. Standing nearby, Vietnam veteran Brian Hoffman, 58, begs to disagree. To him, Kerry was a hero who performed the most difficult duty of all. "John Kerry (news - web sites) returned from battle to speak out against what he considered an unjust war," the Army veteran said. "Who can fault him for that?" Almost three decades after America ended its involvement there, Vietnam is playing a pivotal,...

WASHINGTON — Amid the solemn atmosphere of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the place known simply as The Wall, Dewey Brown reaches up to touch one name among tens of thousands engraved in the polished black granite. Ramrod straight at age 76, the retired Army colonel is not a man prone to tears. But his voice breaks in anger as he recalls that divisive war — and what he terms Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kerry's disrespect for the men who fought and died there.

It's easy to say that John Kerry cites his time in combat in Vietnam to offset his liberal voting record.But on a more fundamental level, I think it exposes a lot more about Kerry. Kerry was in combat in Vietnam for no more than four months. I have read articles saying the actual combat was only two months. Kerry is over 60 years old now.His behavior after returning from the war was over the top inappropriate. He eventually married and divorced a wealthy woman. After that he dated actresses in what Theresa Heinz calls his "gypsy period." Then he married...

From the VVAW website: Since Vietnam Veterans Against the War's inception in 1967, tens of thousands of vets, GIs and supporters have participated in and supported the actions of VVAW. One of those members in the early 1970s was John Kerry. VVAW national leader Al Hubbard appointed Kerry to the VVAW Executive Committee to assist in preparing Dewey Canyon III, VVAW's limited incursion into the land of Congress in 1971. Kerry made his greatest contribution to the anti-war movement and to VVAW in his speech to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on April 23, 1971. http://www.vietnamvets.com/wwwboard/messages/24613.html Kerry's VVAW...

Kerry Denounced U.S. as 'The Real Criminal' in VietnamDuring his war protest days in the early 1970s, Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry once denounced the United States of America as "the real criminal" in the Vietnam War.In comments first reported by the New York Times 33 years ago, Kerry condemned the entire country as "criminal" during a 1971 demonstration on Wall Street, a few weeks after the trial of Lt. William Calley."Guilty as Lieutenant Calley may have been of the actual act of murder, the verdict does not single out the real criminal ... the United States of America,"...

See part one of series, POWs and MIAs, and part two, Defense. WASHINGTON – One of the issues sure to be dogging Democrat presidential front-runner John Kerry will be whether a member of his family improperly benefited from the senator’s leading role in “normalizing” relations between the U.S. and Vietnam. Massachusetts' junior U.S. senator was rather summarily cleared of wrongdoing by the staff of the Senate Ethics Committee. But questions persist. In the early 1990s, Kerry headed a Senate committee that was supposed to determine whatever became of American troops in the Vietnam War whose whereabouts were not recorded. Under...