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HELP! I am sending out a truth alert to everyone on my email list, to counter Kerry's embracing of his Vietnam Veteran status. I need photos of him from the protest days, with his fist raised in the air, as well as a modern one, with his fist raised in the air. He spent far more time protesting the military, than he did in serving it, and I think that fact is very important to point out. Thanks

Much has been made of President Bush's and Sen. John F. Kerry's records of military service. Both men have earned, and should be afforded, respect for serving. Their military records should be a matter of documented history, above the political fray. However, Kerry's actions upon his return from Vietnam should not be beyond reproach. His anti-war actions and allegations against veterans should not be shielded from scrutiny. I can attest to the pain that his actions caused. In 1971, I awoke after three days of unconsciousness aboard a hospital ship off the coast of Vietnam. I could not see, my...

A Republican lawmaker says Sen. John F. Kerry should apologize for his 1971 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Vietnamese government is now using Kerry's 1971 comments to question America's treatment of Iraqi prisoners. In a one-minute speech on the House floor Wednesday, Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Penn.) noted that the Vietnamese government has weighed in on the Iraqi prison scandal. "But the official communist Vietnamese news agency isn't citing the Geneva Convention or the U.N.," Pitts said. "It's citing testimony given by John Kerry in 1971." At that 1971 hearing, Kerry told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about...

(CNSNews.com) - The 1970 meeting that current Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry conducted with North Vietnamese communists may have violated several U.S. laws, according to an author and researcher who has studied the issue. Kerry met with representatives from "both delegations" of the Vietnamese peace process in Paris in 1970, according to Kerry's own testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 22, 1971. But Kerry's meetings with the Vietnamese delegations were in direct violation of laws which forbade private citizens from negotiating with foreign powers, according to researcher and author Jerry Corsi, who began studying the anti-war movement...

The pornography of Iraqi prisoner abuse reflects the pornography of US Middle East policy. And if you think hacking off some poor bugger's head, on television, is the pits in human behaviour you've forgotten those Vietnam War images of a screaming, naked girl child ravaged by napalm. Thirty-three years ago, on April 22, 1971, former naval lieutenant John Kerry, who served in Vietnam for six months in 1968-69, testified before a congressional committee in Washington. Here, edited, is part of his opening speech: "Several months ago, in Detroit, we had an investigation at which over 150 honourably discharged - many...

Kerry stand on abuses gets backlash Former commanders criticize 1971 talk of Vietnam atrocities By Michael Kranish and Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | May 13, 2004 WASHINGTON -- The scenes seemed eerily familiar. In 1971, shocking testimony about US wartime atrocities was delivered in a Senate hearing room by a young US Navy lieutenant, John F. Kerry. On Friday, almost exactly 33 years later, shocking testimony about US wartime abuses was once again laid out in a Senate hearing room, in this case about US treatment of Iraqi prisoners. Even as President Bush apologized for the abuses by the military...

WASHINGTON -- The scenes seemed eerily familiar. In 1971, shocking testimony about US wartime atrocities was delivered in a Senate hearing room by a young US Navy lieutenant, John F. Kerry. On Friday, almost exactly 33 years later, shocking testimony about US wartime abuses was once again laid out in a Senate hearing room, in this case about US treatment of Iraqi prisoners. Even as President Bush apologized for the abuses by the military under his command, questions have resurfaced about allegations that Kerry, his Democratic challenger for the presidency, made about the behavior of US troops in Vietnam three...

You can learn a lot about a man by the way he deals with temptation. And, right now, John F. Kerry is mightily tempted. You see it on his Web site, where he's running a petition that reads: I support John Kerry's Stand: Donald Rumsfeld Must Resign. The demand for the defense secretary's head is based on the Abu Ghraib affair. Kerry puts the blame for the prison atrocities squarely on Rumsfeld and his boss, President Bush. All week, Kerry has made a mantra of Harry S Truman's tiresome aphorism about the buck stopping at the President's desk. This kind...

The following transcript is taken from ABC's special June 30, 1971 broadcast of "The Dick Cavett Show," during which former Navy Lieutenant John Kerry represented Vietnam Veterans Against the War. He was opposed by fellow Navy veteran John O'Neill, representing Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace. ---------- MR. CAVETT: The fact is I don't have an opening monologue tonight because the subject of the show is quite serious, and I figured why make it more serious with one of my monologues, so I thought I would just start in. You know, I guess, who my two guests are tonight: John...

Click the source and follow the link. I don't know how to post the audio. If someone can directly link to it, please be my guest. Say what you will about the ol' Dick Nixon, but he was dead on right about Kerry in 1971. In the discussion w/ Colson about Kerry's anti-war activities, Nixon labels it a "racket" Chuck Colson presciently calls Kerry an "opportunist"

Sean is about to play the clip from Wintersoldier of Kerry admitting to committing to atrocities in 1971!!! http://www.wintersoldier.com/video/kerryMTP.wmv

Karl Rove knows the facts. He has not yet discussed them. Hillary knows the facts. She has not yet discussed them. John Kerry knows the facts. They scare him to death. For anyone here who has been asleep, John Forbes Kerry attended a meeting in Kansas City on Nov. 12-15, 1971. Until recently, he denied being at the meeting. There was a very good reason he didn't want anyone to know about the meeting. You see, a few real crazies in the group Vietnam Vets Against the War, actually wanted to assassinate United States senators who were supporting the war.They...

This is the Explosively Controversial book you have heard about recently on America's major Cable News Channel. It is Entitled "the New Soldier" by John Kerry (currently, U.S. Senator John Kerry). Many people have found the text and images within the pages of this literary work hard to swallow to say the least. Would you feel the same way? This book is extremely hard to find and one of the few remaining in existence. It has been stated on major network television that the current value is upwards of $2,000.00 and will rise higher as the presidential election draws...

WASHINGTON - Former Sen. Bob Dole isn't making much of the controversy over whether decorated Vietnam veteran John Kerry (news - web sites) threw away his medals or ribbons during a 1971 anti-war protest. When it comes to choosing a president, "I don't think it matters," Dole, the Republican candidate for president in 1996 and a veteran whose arm was badly injured in World War II, told Fox New Sunday. Kerry returned from Vietnam an outspoken critic of the war. For years, he has said he threw away his ribbons, not his three Purple Hearts, Bronze Star and Silver Star...

On an April night in Washington 33 years ago, a tall, slender man in navy combat fatigues tapped me on the shoulder I was sitting in a large army tent pitched on the Mall, in the company of a couple of dozen Vietnam vets, one of whom—a bearded, wiry little guy with a terrific sense of humor and an inexhaustible supply of mescaline—was temporarily using my other shoulder as a resting place for the stump that had been his left leg. He’d just asked how come I was wearing a South Vietnamese officer’s jacket with the word "TIME" embroidered over...

Where Kerry Slept: John Kerry didn't throw his own medals over the wall in that 1971 antiwar protest and he didn't sleep on the Mall with his Viet Vet buddies either. He snuck off and slept in a Georgetown townhouse. ... You can't accuse Robert Sam Anson of burying the lede! ... Assignment for ABC producer Chris Vlasto: As I recall, whether Kerry actually slept on the Mall has been a controversial issue over the years. Why do I think that if you go through the clips you'll find Kerry denying that he didn't sleep on the Mall? Just a guess. Anson, as an eyewitness sympathetic...

Look at the clips of young John Kerry, back from Vietnam, leading protests against the war, and you see a modern-day Paul Revere. With one or two significant differences. Kerry circa 1971 was a far more complex figure than his fellow Massachusetts patriot. He fought bravely in Vietnam, but briefly; using three minor wounds, he went home on a technicality, leaving his buddies behind. He had gone off to war dreaming of establishment leadership and came back to head an army of alienated outsiders. Like Revere, Kerry had a grand sense of drama, but his message wasn't nearly so clear....

John O'Neill, the Vietnam veteran who took on John Kerry in the 1971 debate on American "war crimes" that was recently rebroadcast on C-SPAN, will continue his series of media interviews this afternoon on the Fox News show DaySide with Linda Vester around 1:10pm Eastern. O'Neill, who commanded a Swift boat in the same division as Kerry -- though for considerably longer -- more than held his own against Kerry during a 90-minute special broadcast of the Dick Cavett Show. Now he is challenging Senator Kerry to continue the debate they began 33 years ago, in an effort to clear...

April 26, 2004 1971 Tape Adds to Debate Over Kerry's Medal ProtestBy JIM RUTENBERG and JAMES DAO hroughout much of his political career, Senator John Kerry, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, has faced questions about a singular event that took place 33 years ago last week: he and fellow veterans discarded medals in Washington to protest the war in Vietnam.The Kerry campaign Web site says it is "right-wing fiction" that he "threw away his medals during a Vietnam War protest." Rather, the Web site says, "John Kerry threw away his ribbons and the medals of two veterans who could...

More than seven months before Kerry delivered the April 1971 Senate testimony that would turn him into an overnight media sensation, he was a little-known Vietnam veteran who rose to speak at a rally in Valley Forge, Pa. Among the fellow speakers was Fonda. Fonda spoke early in the rally, while Kerry was among the last to speak. Foreshadowing his Senate testimony, Kerry said: It ''is not patriotism to ask Americans to die for a mistake.'' (Seven months later, he testified a bit more eloquently: ''How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a...