Posted on 08/22/2004 8:24:56 PM PDT by GaretGarrett
Decorated veteran John Kerry, testifying before the House Foreign Relations Committee, questions the War in Vietnam, Washington, D.C., April 22, 1971. ..............................
Thank you very much, Senator Fulbright, Senator Javits, Senator Symington and Senator Pell.
I would like to say for the record, and also for the men sitting behind me who are also wearing the uniforms and their medals, that my sitting here is really symbolic. I am not here as John Kerry. I am here as one member of a 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.
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These were........ crimes committed on a day-to-day basis, with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command...... they had personally raped ........cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, .....
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The country doesn't know it yet, but it has created a monster, a monster in the form of millions of men who have been taught to deal and to trade in violence
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We found that not only was it a civil war, an effort by a people who had for years been seeking their liberation from any colonial influence whatsoever
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It certainly is one of the great speeches....if one is a Comsymp.
If its so great, why does John F*ckin' react like its something you scoop up and hide in a brown paper bag? You'd think he would tout the appearance that made him famous at every opportunity.
Yes, the North Vietnamese thought is was great speech too.
correct me if I'm wrong here, but I recall that in wartime traitors are usually arrested, court-martialled and then SHOT for treason??
ALL former Viet Vet commanders ought to join the Swift Boat vets, step into the fray, and make Kerry FINALLY pay for his slander and for his inpugning their good character and name. NOW.
Yup. Academy Award stuff. I wonder who got the award for best speech writer?
Both have it coming. Big time.
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I think it is such a great speech it ought to be played over and over until the election. A few times a day would be best. The more exposure it gets, the more he drops in the polls
Public radio (NPR/PBS) is US Taxpayers funding anti-american communist radio in America!!
Conservatives affectionately refer to NPR as National Pinko Radio. In more than on sense of the word. (laughing)
The part where he admits to crimes should be played on hard. If he was lying, make him say so. That disqualifies him to be C.I.C also.
If PBS thinks it is such a great speech maybe they should play on their network so everyone could see it.;)
Giap was a fan.
Yeah, they would think that. I'm not surprised at all.
Maybe at one time in the history of this nation but in the 20th century, America lost the will for self-protection/self-preservation.
The American woman known as Axis Sally served as a Nazi broadcaster and was only convicted on one count of treason, served little over 7 years, and ended her days as a private school teachers in America.
There are some who believe that "Lord Haw Haw", another American born Nazi propaganda broadcaster, would have lived if he had been permitted to come back to America. Instead the British tried him and hanged him after the war.
Only a handful of people were tried for treason after WWII and these examples I just cited were in the employ of the Nazis providing aid and comfort to the enemy and attempting to diminish the morale of those at home and in the armed forces.
Jane Fonda was not prosecuted for treason but there is no doubt in my mind that she was guilty of it if only for posing for photos on the Viet Cong antiaircraft gun.
From the Constitution:
Section 3. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.
and
Section 4. The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
Does commission of treason exclude eligibility from seeking the presidency? Is there a statute of limitations on treason?
There are some mindless blogs that I encountered while searching for these passages online. In one, someone claimed that President Bush's "WMD lie" was an impeachable offense. Which one of America's enemies did the US aid by such a move (if it can be proven it was a deliberate act)?
So . . . the enemy within reveals itself.
I think they meant "infamous".
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