He certainly didn't hesitate to criticize veterans before.
"…at times [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 Ghengis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam…" John Kerry, testifying before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, April 22, 1971
"And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women…" John Kerry, Face the Nation, December 4, 2005 |
