Kerry speaks about HIS War Crimes

Meet The Press (via U. Virginia) ^ | Jan. 17 2004

[counterpunch]

[FBD]

RE: "This man is a war criminal..."

This seems more than a little over the top. He appears to have been a liar and a coward, but war criminal? Vietnam was a mess, let's face it. We had lots of guys out of control over there, and the responsibilty lies with the leaders at the top, the Robert NcNamaras, et all.

It's good to know how Kerry won his silver star, and that his actions weren't exactly heroic. But calling him a war criminal? C'mon. Half the time our guys didn't know who friend or foe was. Guys did shoot Viet Cong women and children in these "free fire zones." The Vietnam war was a disaster all around, for everyone.

John F'n Kerry is not Presidential material, and George W. Bush definitly is. His consorting with Jane Fonda after the war, and his Senate voting record, etc. bears this out.

But we don't need to call him a war criminal. That's going too far, and smears a lot of guys who went to Vietnam, and came back all messed up, because of politicians who tryed to win a war, based on "body count."

[FourtySeven]

Does this mean Kerry will have an egg dish named after him too? < snicker >

[FBD]

This is a pretty good article, you might like it:
From:
http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/061603.shtml

{SNIP}
“…In the distance, an elderly man was tending his water buffalo -- and serving as human cover for a dozen Viet Cong manning a machine-gun nest.

"Open fire; let's take 'em," Kerry ordered, according to his second-in-command, James Wasser of Illinois. Wasser blasted away with his M-60, hitting the old man, who slumped into the water, presumably dead. With a clear path to the enemy, the fusillade from Kerry's Navy boat, backed by a pair of other small vessels, silenced the machine-gun nest.

When it was over, the Viet Cong were dead, wounded, or on the run. A civilian apparently was killed, and two South Vietnamese allies who had alerted Kerry's crew to the enemy were either wounded or killed….”

[SpinyNorman]

The excuses he made for the atrocities he admitted committing are not too dissimilar from the "I vas chust followink orders" excuses used at the Nuremberg trials.

Didn't work for them, why should it work for Kerry?

[El Gato]

he said: ``The United States must, I think, bring itself to understand that the policy of intervention that was right for Western Europe does not and cannot find the same application to the rest of the world.''

Sounds pretty racist to me. White people deserve our help, but not yellow, bronw or black ones?

[jla]

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[LeFaux]

Sunday afternoon I sent an E-mail to Chris Matthews of Hardball, with copies to Matt Drudge, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and Joe Scarborough Re: "Can a hero become a traitor?" The same E-mail will be sent to other mediums. The E-mail asks specific questions that the Fourth Estate should ask of John F. Kerry. To wit, Who are the "Band of Brothers, and where are they today?" "Is JFKerry's book, The Young Soldier, part of the curriculum at West Point?" "What did North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap say about JF Kerry's protest movement?" Other questions were also posed.

For the moment I have precious little time, but it would be nice to have someone provide the specific dates of each military award presented to Kerry, and the time that it took for him to earn the "chest full of medals," as Terry McAuliffe alludes.

What is the criterium for the Silver Star? I believe it must be extreme valor. What are the chances of a serviceman earning three purple hearts in a relatively short period of time? Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!

[jmstein7]

ALERT:

Hannity will be PLAYING the Kerry 1971 audio clip (I committed war crimes) on H&C tonight!!! Set your VCRs!

[I-Hate-Kerry]

I agree he is evil
he should die <;-}