``I took offense then and I take offense now,'' said Ted Sampley, 57, who helped organize a group called Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry. Kerry helped turn policy makers against the war, potentially ruining U.S. chances for a victory, Sampley said. ``His testimony in '71 echoed all through those years.''
Sampley said his group has sent out 30,000 to 40,000 anti- Kerry bumper stickers and has more than 3,000 names on a direct mailing list. His group plans to organize protests and show up at campaign events and question Kerry, Sampley said.
``I really think those leveling that criticism are in a distinct minority,'' Hurley, head of the Veterans for Kerry group, said on a conference call with reporters this month. ``I have had countless vets come to me and say of his testimony in 1971 -- `That's the Kerry we want'.'
That's the Big Lie -- that most veterans somehow approve of what John Kerry said to slander them after he bailed out of Vietnam. We'll see how long the Kerryites and their media pals can maintain that particular fiction...