Statement of Mr. John Kerry (Accepting FALSE Testimony Accusing U.S. Soldiers Of Atrocities)

Richmond.Edu ^ | April 22, 1971 | John F. Kerry

[PJ-Comix]

...I am not here as John Kerry. I am here as one member of the group of 1,000 which is a small representation of a very much larger group of veterans in this country, and were it possible for all of them to sit at this table they would be here and have the same kind of testimony....

WINTER SOLDIER INVESTIGATION

I would like to talk, representing all those veterans, and say that several months ago in Detroit, we had an investigation at which over 150 honorably discharged and many very highly decorated veterans testified to 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....

They told the stories at times they 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 Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.

We call this investigation the "Winter Soldier Investigation." The term "Winter Soldier" is a play on words of Thomas Paine in 1776 when he spoke of the Sunshine Patriot and summertime soldiers who deserted at Valley Forge because the going was rough.

We who have come here to Washington have come here because we f eel we have to be winter soldiers now. We could come back to this country; we could be quiet; we could hold our silence; we could not tell what went on in Vietnam, but we feel because of what threatens this country, the fact that the crimes threaten it, not reds, and not redcoats but the crimes which we are committing that threaten it, that we have to speak out.

[jmstein7]

PJC,

Hey... as usual, I'm writing another article. Can you point me to any sources (reliable sources) that prove that Kerry's testimony, and testimony like it, was BS?

[Hon]

"I knew a guy who cut off viet cong ears in Viet Nam. He was a born killer who enjoyed killing viet cong as a challenge between them. He was a machine gunner. He was given a fire sector and everybody stayed away from him. He's dtring a little barbed wire about 100 yards from his position. After fire fights he would cut off the right ears of viet cong and pin them to his barbed wire to let them know what he had done and where he was. The viet cong kept sending their best after him. He kept posting their ears on his barbed wire at the jungle's edge. In one sector he had 355 ears posted until the army moved him to another sector."

You are such a pantload.

[onedoug]

"...any more than I forgive Jane Fonda."

'With ya' there.

[PJ-Comix]

Maybe RLK is talking about Howard Stern. Howard often talks his Vietnam experiences and this description sounds like Howard in 'Nam.

[BushisTheMan]

You said it beautifully and I agree with you 100%. Thanks