The many ways John Kerry betrayed his fellow soldiers

catzmeow · #1 (**permalink**) 08-31-2004, 05:26 AM

1) Kerry likely served as an intermediary between the Vietnamese communists and the families of POWs to get them to disavow the war in hopes of winning better treatment for their captured and imprisoned relatives:

http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/st...=EdgeofTreason

2) John Kerry falsely testified before congress about atrocities that were never committed on behalf of people who weren't even in Vietnam (but claimed to be) and never disavowed those people who lied about other vets.

Winter Soldier claims: http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/in...pic=Atrocities

Winter Soldier Debunking: http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/in...pic=Historians

3) John Kerry stated that human rights violations were widespread and a "way of life" for our armed forces, exposing his fellow soldiers to horrific treatment at the hands of the anti-war movement as baby-killers and thugs:

(John Kerry, 1970, Valley Forge VVAW rally: "My Lai was not an isolated incident but rather a way of life for many of our military."

4) John Kerry met with representatives of the North Vietnamese Government to negotiate on behalf of VVAW in Paris in direct contravention of U.S. law.

5) The VVAW (of which John Kerry was a key member), threatened civil unrest and violence if American forces attempt to interdict the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos (the Ho Chi Minh trail being the primary route by which armaments which were used to kill U.S. soliders were placed in the hands of the Viet Cong):

"We, as veterans of the war in Vietnam, give notice that if Laos is attacked, we will respond at once. We call for mass civil disobedience to take place all over this country. We call for industry to shut down. We call upon the students to close the schools. We call upon our brothers who are still in uniform to close the military bases throughout America and the world. We call on the anti-war movement to shut down the major cities of America.... If this be a threat, let us make the most of it... We have been trained to fight. If need be we will use the knowledge we have gained against those who are seeking to extend this war." -- VVAW FBI Files: Section 02, page 66.

This threat put the lives of U.S. military service personnel at greater risk.
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This man does not deserve to lead our troops....EVER.

Catz

catzmeow · #2 (**permalink**) 08-31-2004, 05:36 AM

HOW KERRY BETRAYED HIS FELLOW SOLDIERS:

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Finally, we all want to see the South Vietnamese have the type of government that they themselves freely choose. I suggest that it's time for an end to hate and disruption in this country. I suggest it's time for trust in this country. The same kind of trust we will need when the war in Vietnam is over to live with ourselves here.

I'd like to turn to a second issue. Mr. Kerry is the type of person who lives and survives only on the war weariness and fears of the American people. This is the same little man who on nationwide television in April spoke of, quote, "crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command," who was quoted in a prominent news magazine in May as saying, quote, "war crimes in Vietnam are the rule and not the exception," unquote. Who brought 50 veterans down to Washington to testify about alleged atrocities in April, the same 50 who after they had appeared on every major news network refused to provide any depositions or provide any details of any kind.

Never in the course of human events have so many been libeled by so few.

There were two and a half million of us who served there in Vietnam under the most severe restrictions in this nation's history. We have brought this war close to a close. We never engaged in mass bombing of population centers, as all nations did in World War II, and the reason we did not is because we are a moral people.

Fifty-five thousand Americans died there in Vietnam no matter what they thought about the war because they believed in this country, and those of us who survived came back to this country, by and large determined just to resume our normal lives after the disruption caused by war.

We encountered a variety of problems: unemployment, discrimination, other problems, and then we encountered the biggest problem of them all, the big lie by Mr. Kerry and his group, that we were either each individually war criminals or that we were collectively the executioners of a criminal policy.

You've seen that all before, guilt by association. If one or 50 or 150 veterans testify as to war crimes, then all two and a half million of us must be war criminals. That's the same as saying if one Jew or one black commits one murder in this country, then all the Jews and all of the blacks in this country must be murderers, and that is something that we must not stand for in this country.

We've all heard of Lieutenant Calley. He's accused of the murder of 102 civilians in Son Mai Lai, and the operations – and the law will operate in his case.

This man (Mr. Kerry) has attempted the murder of the reputations of two and a half million of us, including the 55,000 dead in Vietnam, and he will never be brought to justice. We can only seek justice and equity from the American people. Every man kills the thing he loves. By each let this be told: The brave man does it with the sword; the coward with the word.

Those of you who have called John O'Neill a liar have likely never even read the transcript of the Dick Cavett show in which he debated now Senator Kerry in 1971 on live television. Perhaps you should. I think it reveals, very well, who the real liar is...and the irreparable damage he caused to our soldiers with his lies.

Catz[/quote]

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