How does Kerry explain these inconsistencies?
"It is one of those terrible things, and I'll never
forget, ever, the sight of that child," Kerry later said
about the dead baby.<font size=4> "But there was nothing that anybody
could have done about it. It was the only instance of that
happening.<font size=3>"
And...
...Kerry hooked up with an organization called Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW). Two events cooked up by this group went a long way toward cementing in the public mind the image of Vietnam as one big atrocity. The first of these was the January 31, 1971, "Winter Soldier Investigation," organized by "the usual suspects" among antiwar celebrities such as Jane Fonda, Dick Gregory, and Kennedy-assassination conspiracy theorist, Mark Lane. Here, individuals purporting to be <font size=4>Vietnam veterans told horrible stories of atrocities in Vietnam: using prisoners for target practice, throwing them out of helicopters, cutting off the ears of dead Viet Cong soldiers, burning villages, and gang-raping women as a matter of course....
...Several days later Kerry testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.<font size=3>.. Kerry began by referring to the Winter Soldiers Investigation in Detroit. Here, <font size=4>he claimed, "over 150 honorably discharged and many very highly decorated veterans testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia, not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command."...<font size=3>
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