[secretagent]

The URL has "archive" in it, so I don't know how old this piece really is. It has a current publication date.

Nicosia states that the Winter Soldier Investigation turned Kerry changed Kerry's mind on the frequency of US atrocities in Vietnam.

[secretagent]

Nicosia and the Chronicle doing their part to keep the WSI prominent.

[muawiyah]

He was a young man in those days, and typically young men simply do not believe that people develop insanity and tell us about their visions. He probably didn't understand very well about the use of hallucinogenic drugs.

On the other hand, Algore knew that part really well!

Kerry had the resources and presumably the intelligence to go seek other sources. Instead he bought into Bobby Muller's nonsense, probably because the guy is tied down to a wheelchair.

On an issue this serious, you sometimes have to say to yourself "gee, the guy in the wheelchair could be right, but what if he has a secret agenda". Kerry didn't. He's one of those guys who makes the worst sort of boss ~ you know the one ~ last person he talked to had God's own truth!

[VadeRetro]

Kerry totally opposed the event because, at the time, he did not believe Americans had committed any atrocities in Vietnam, beyond the notorious massacre of 500 Vietnamese women and children at My Lai.

But he was involved anyway and I believe was a speaker at the event. And if the quoted sentence is true then his testimony in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was all hearsay, a thing he forgot to mention.

[Mike Darancette]

Kerry was anti-war before he went into the Navy, even writing tracts while in Yale.

[billhilly]

While Kerry, Fonda and their symphatizers did succeed in terminating the Vietnam war, and in the process, the lives of millions of Southeast Asians, not to mention thousands of american GIs, it was worthwhile to them, because it propelled their careers.

These days we see the same things at play. The 3,000 American deaths in New York and Washington on September 11, 2001 are once again the personal playground of John Kerry. His media apparatus, his wife's wealth, and the zeal of his Left Wing Bush haters are busy at work trying, once again, to show what a horrible country the United States of America is.

[Brilliant]

Why? I'm sure it's because he saw anti-war activism as a springboard to power.

[optimistically_conservative]

Funny she doesn't mention that Hubbard was proven a fraud, as well as many of those Kerry claimed to have "grilled" and validated "bona fides".

"There were enough bona fides in many of these people: you saw their DD- 214s (discharge forms), you know where they'd served, you could talk to them and see the anguish -- you could cut through what was bull and what wasn't. And it was a very, very heavy, difficult kind of thing to listen to. And it was painful."

[Republic If You Can Keep It]

"They (American troops) had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads,.....

Note that this was hearsay testimony........Kerry telling what others said, not what he had seen.

I don't hear the press make this point made very often.

[moonman]

Thanks for thr post.

After reading his article, I'm asking .... Heh? Where is Paul Harvey's 'The Rest Of The story'?

[x]

See the recent article on Kerry's father. I think it was in The New Republic. Richard Kerry disapproved of his son's enlisting and encouraged him to take a more public and outspoken antiwar stance.

This looks like another "eerie similarity" between JFK I and JFK II: both Kennedy and Kerry had fathers with unorthodox and potentially embarassing views on foreign policy. Of course Kerry's father didn't have the fortune of Joseph Kennedy and didn't live to see his son's Presidential campaign, but Richard Kerry's influence on his son is rather disturbing.

Speaking of the New Republic, they sent a reporter up to Massachusetts in 2000, to assess Kerry's chances of becoming Al Gore's running mate. The writer was originally pro-Kerry, but after seeing how much politicians in Kerry's home state despised the Senator, changed his mind.

[Jim_Curtis]

Are they dumb or just playing dumb? Haven't these media weenies read the Harvard Crimson article that has been posted all over the internet for about a month? Kerry was pro-communist expansion and rabidly against Vietnam involvement long before he landed there.

[GailA]

Look what I found, check out the yellow marks...hanoi jane, hanoi john & mark lane.

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/flash_3_3.html

[MissAmericanPie]

Why John Kerry turned against the Viet Nam War? They told him he couldn't kill civilian women, children, and old people. Evidently he wouldn't listen to the brass so instead of putting that straight jacket on him, they filled his chest with medals, in record time, and shipped him home.

[savedbygrace]

Kerry totally opposed the event because, at the time, he did not believe Americans had committed any atrocities in Vietnam, beyond the notorious massacre of 500 Vietnamese women and children at My Lai.

This doesn't seem to square with Kerry's own admission that he committed atrosities in Vietnam.

[Interesting Times]

If Kerry was turned against the war by the Winter Soldier Investigation, what was he doing giving anti-war speeches alongside Jane Fonda six months earlier at Valley Forge?

It appears that the Left may try to defend Kerry by defending the WSI. We'll see how well that works out...