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To: E who wrote (32307)	2/29/2004 12:52:48 PM
From: Poet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793597

Those are the right questions, of course. And this is why I've come to believe that Kerry showed courage both in battle and later on under oath. The fact that some of his "brothers" are calling the veracity of his testimony about the statements of other soldiers into question-- all these years later-- stuns me. Many of these events were covered in the American press at the time. And many more honorably disharged soldiers than Kerry were among those who testified. Boy that war did a number on people. Still is.

To: E who wrote (32307)	2/29/2004 12:59:43 PM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793597

I always wonder whether people like you believe that the vets who gave this testimony? Don't flip the issue...The issue is Kerry's personal testimony and voting record. What he told Sen. William Fulbright's (D.-Ark.) committee in April of 1971 and NBC's "Meet the Press" was that America was engaged in genocide, that he and his warrior comrades had perpetrated atrocities, that their officers knew and approved of it, that our leaders were "war criminals." Kerry told the Senate that 150 honorably discharged veterans, many of them highly decorated, had "testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia . . . on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command." In Kerry's own words: "They had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wire 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 Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam. . . ." No proof of these allegations or that they came from veterans was ever offered. Where are the men who said these things? Where are they? We only know Kerry said them. I believe he made all the BS up. Kerry's voting record on military matters is a matter of record too...Shall I enumerate it for you?