"When he (John Kerry) says "we" he is speaking on his and their behalf."
I see. When testifying about the atrocities & war crimes,
Kerry says "we" more than a dozen times. However, at no point
during his testimony does he unequivocally state that he is
only speaking on their behalf, that he is simply a
spokesman & not a witness, or a participant in those
atrocities.
Perhaps we should be ashamed of ourselves for allowing
so many lies reported under oath without adequately
correcting the record in the full view of the American
people. Perhaps we should be ashamed of ourselves for
not vigorously prosecuting John Kerry & his "Band of
sniveling, lying Borthers" for providing false wittness to
alleged "war crimes".
Statement of Mr. John Kerry
...I am not here as John Kerry. I am here as one member of the 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 kind of testimony....
....."We who have come here to Washington have come here because we feel we have to be winter soldiers now. We could come back to this country; we could be quiet; we could hold our silence; we could not tell what went on in Vietnam, but we feel because of what threatens this country, the fact that the crimes threaten it, not reds, and not redcoats but the crimes which we are committing that threaten it, that we have to speak out."....
...."We saw Vietnam ravaged equally by American bombs as well as by search and destroy missions, as well as by Vietcong terrorism, and yet we listened while this country tried to blame all of the havoc on the Viet Cong.
We rationalized destroying villages in order to save them. We saw America lose her sense of morality as she accepted very coolly a My Lai and refused to give up the image of American soldiers who hand out chocolate bars and chewing gum.
We learned the meaning of free fire zones, shooting anything that moves, and we watched while America placed a cheapness on the lives of orientals."....
....the hypocrisy in our taking umbrage at the Geneva Conventions and using that as justification for a continuation of this war when We are more guilty than any other body of violations of those Geneva Conventions; in the use of free fire zones, harassment interdiction fire, search and destroy missions, the bombings, the torture of prisoners, all accepted policy by many units in South Vietnam. That is what we are trying to say. It is part and parcel of everything....
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"There are all kinds of atrocities, and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed in that I took part in shootings in free-fire zones. I conducted harassment and interdiction fire. I used .50 caliber machine guns, which we were granted and ordered to use, which were our only weapon against the people," Kerry said. "I took part in search and destroy missions, in the burning of villages…"....
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