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To: American Spirit who wrote (183452)	2/24/2004 12:00:48 AM
From: hmaly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574856

As Re...C'mon, let's talk about the Vietnam War. Sure. Here is Kerry's description of his activities while he was in Nam. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> web.ask.com MR. RUSSERT: You mentioned you're a military guy. There's been a lot of discussion about Bob Kerrey, your former Democratic colleague in the Senate, about his talking about his anguish about what happened in Vietnam. You were on this program 30 years ago as a leader of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. And we went back and have an audiotape of that and some still photos. And your comments are particularly timely in this overall discussion of Bob Kerrey. And I'd like for you to listen to those with our audience and then try to put that war into some context: (Audiotape, April 18, 1971): MR. CROSBY NOYES (Washington Evening Star): Mr. Kerry, you said at one time or another that you think our policies in Vietnam are tantamount to genocide and that the responsibility lies at all chains of command over there. Do you consider that you personally as a Naval officer committed atrocities in Vietnam or crimes punishable by law in this country? KERRY: 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 calibre machine guns, which we were granted and ordered to use, which were our only weapon against people. I took part in search and destroy missions, in the burning of villages. All of this is contrary to the laws of warfare, all of this is contrary to the Geneva Conventions and all of this is ordered as a matter of written established policy by the government of the United States from the top down. And I believe that the men who designed these, the men who designed the free fire zone, the men who ordered us, the men who signed off the air raid strike areas, I think these men, by the letter of the law, the same letter of the law that tried Lieutenant Calley, are war criminals. (End audiotape) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> What struck me here, in the part I bolded; is that Kerry was talking about action he did in Nam, not some nameless soldier, as he claimed before the senate. And he knew they were war criminal acts, when he did them, yet he still did them. The question is, Would you like a self confessed war criminal, who couldn't control himself, when he was young, with his hand on the button. So you're accusing our heros of war crimes and treason, huh? I didn't. Kerry did it himself. Is Kerry a liar, or a war criminal. You be the judge. Just ike you think McCain was a traitor too, right? Why would I think that. Kerry is the one who boasted of the crimes he, and supposedly his fellow comrades did, for his personal gains, not McCain. McCain in fact, testified the Vietnamese used Kerry's testimony to torture him in prison. Ted Sampley, a psychotic who ought to be locked up. Sure, I don't have a problem with that.