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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...

WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) on Wednesday marked the first anniversary of the war in Iraq (news - web sites) by criticizing President Bush (news - web sites) for failed policies "with no end in sight" as Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) defended the administration. "Today we know that the mission is not finished, hostilities have not ended, and our men and women in uniform fight on almost alone with the target squarely on their backs," Kerry said at George Washington University. "Every day they face danger and death from suicide...

VVAW film clips: Still trying to figure out what proof of US atrocities this shows. Entertaining nonetheless. o Operation RAW: Let's Simulate Some Atrocities (1:12, 1.3MB) This guy is priceless. o Winter Soldier Investigation: My Advanced Genocide Training (1:15, 1.35MB) The more things change, the more they stay the same. o Winter Soldier Investigation: Kerry Elicits Riveting Testimony (1:52, 2.0MB) Can you find the 2004 Presidential Candidate in this video? o Dewey Canyon III: Olympic Medal Toss Event (2:21, 5.8MB) ----------

(Talon News) -- A conservative activist group has created a website that features excerpts from a book written by Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) in 1971 when he was a leader in the Vietnam antiwar movement. The Free Republic Network (FRN) has posted photographs and transcripts of Kerry's testimony before Congress on the site, www.wintersoldier.com. The cover of the book "The New Soldier" is displayed on the site which shows members of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) imitating the famous photograph of U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Iwo Jima. In this pose, the American flag is carried...

Reprinted from NewsMax.com Sunday, Feb. 8, 2004 2:46 PM ESTThe Photo Dems Fear Most: Kerry with 'Hanoi Jane' Democratic Party officials are hoping that no photographs exist of a well-covered Vietnam War protest where soldier-hating actress Jane Fonda and Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry, then and up-and-coming member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, railed against U.S. war policy from the back of the same pick-up truck. "Scores of newspaper articles about the march" exist, according to Kerry biographer Douglas Brinkley. Dubbed "Operation RAW" [Rapid American Withdrawal], the Sept. 1970 march featured Fonda, Kerry and a motley band of anti-war...