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To: SiouxPal who wrote (59878)10/11/2004 11:20:05 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 89467
 
There's that 12 string SSB they were talkin' 'bout.

I am August West, Wharf Rat, and I was born in the USA



To: SiouxPal who wrote (59878)10/11/2004 11:40:09 PM
From: Sully-  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 89467
 
"John never,ever,ever in his lifetime said ALL Vietnam vets did those things. He said some did"

Well, then, "some" of them were very, very busy committing
atrocities in Vietnam if you believe what Kerry actually said.

FWFW, Kerry didn't say "ALL", but no one claims he said "ALL"
Kerry's lies & slander surely painted them all very badly.

And Kerry absolutely didn't say "SOME"....

Lt. Kerry asserted before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that his country and his fellow service members were guilty in Vietnam of "war crimes committed in Southeast Asia, not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command."

Indeed, Kerry asserted that the American military was "more guilty than any other body of violations of [the] Geneva Conventions."

In a question-and-answer session before a Senate committee in 1971, John F. Kerry, who was a leading antiwar activist at the time, asserted that 200,000 Vietnamese per year were being "murdered by the United States of America"

Meet the Press April 18, 1971 - MR. KERRY (Vietnam Veterans Against the War): 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.....



To: SiouxPal who wrote (59878)10/12/2004 12:20:25 AM
From: American Spirit  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 89467
 
Atrocities were common in Vietnam because of the CIA's secret war code-named "the Phoenix Program. The right wants this covered up, but our spec ops were used by the CIA to carry out very brutal terminations with extreme prejudice. I mean brutal stuff. Kerry ferried some of those missions up the bowels of hell.