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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (64202)	8/25/2004 10:25:57 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793859

You are demonstrating you ignorance of Congressional testimony Yeah, I am a pretty ignorant guy, Ken.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (64202)	8/25/2004 11:13:29 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 793859

If you testify that 150 people told you of their own experience that they committed war crimes, it was out in the open, known to "all levels of command", common knowledge, and that furthermore you yourself committed war crimes - as Kerry did testify - then it's pretty pathetic to claim that he didn't really mean it, it was just hearsay. Kerry testified that the American army behaved "in the fashion of Genghis Khan", for goodness sake. He did mean it. It was riveting testimony. Surely, we (meaning we civilians back home) thought, surely this decorated vet, articulate and well-spoken, would never say such things against himself and his comrades in arms if they weren't true? Kerry rose to fame on the strength of that interview. I wonder if Kerry was even aware how far over the top that testimony was, how it smeared the great majority of his fellow soldiers who were trying to fight without committing war crimes. I really begin to wonder if Kerry isn't the star of a "John Kerry the Great" show that exists in his own mind, which takes ordinary combat and turns it into heroics, and guerilla war and turns it into war crimes, without Kerry even realizing how far his perceptions are from other mens'.