Did John Kerry state that US troops committed war crimes

[pinkpops]

when he addressed the Foreign Relations Committee of the US Senate?

In his speech to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and in other speeches, Kerry summarized the findings of the Winter Soldier Investigation.

http://www.vvaw.org/faq/

[Kathy in Cambridge]

1. Why are you DWELLING on Kerry's service?

Have you been drinking the KoolAid? How about dwelling on Bush's non-service, lies and draft-dodging, along with his chickenhawk VP?

[pinkpops]

3. I support Kerry

Just checking to see who reads and who pounces.
Been watching those kitties?

[madmax]

4. LOL Rose

We're gonna beat this horse into glue. :evilgrin:

[Christ was Socialist]

2. Here is the link

http://www.c-span.org/vote2004/jkerrytestimony.asp

[pinkpops]

5. Yep, you found it

And, in the end -

The Chairman: Mr. Kerry, it is quite evident from that demonstration that you are speaking not only for yourself but for all your associates, as you properly said in the beginning.

You said you wished to communicate. I can't imagine anyone communicating more eloquently than you did. I think it is extremely helpful and beneficial to the committee and the country to have you make such a statement.

[radwriter0555]

22. the question that pops a vein for freepers is "was kerry WRONG to protest

the war in Viet Nam, after BEING there, and SEEING the horrors?"

They don't have the BALLS to answer, and start sputtering and calling names and silly things.

[Tom Kitten]

6. How would it matter?

Was My Lai a war crime? Or for that matter the secret bombing of Cambodia? Why castigate a guy for stating the obvious, you bet war crimes were committed!

This whole refighting of the Vietnam War is just a smokescreen to mask our current misadministration's colossal record of miserable failure on every front...a diversion, and I am (not surprisingly) disheartened by the media's attachment to Kerry's service record as an issue and by the pitiful response by the (supposedly) angry and united Democratic party...

[pinkpops]

7. I think they are just trying to make him spend his money.

As well as divert attention from themselves (as you say) . Not sure how Shrub's AWOL will figure in.

[madmax]

8. Wasn't Powell involved somewhat

in My Lai? I thought I read that a long time ago.

[pinkpops]

11. me too

not me too I was involved, but me too I heard that about Colon Polyp.

[radwriter0555]

17. powell covered up the my lai massacre, and has been rewarded

ever since.

[madmax]

23. Is there NO honor at all in this administration?

What a gang! Thanks, radwriter.

[rumguy]

9. there were some war crimes committed, no?

[pinkpops]

10. That's what I hear

Here's the link someone posted above:
http://www.c-span.org/vote2004/jkerrytestimony.asp

Apparently Kerry's 1971 testimony related the experiences of many vets.

[FredScuttle]

12. Don't forget he threw his medals away, then lied about it!

poop

[Tom Kitten]

13. no no no!

he "PRETENDED to throw his medals away" and then lied about it!
Karen Hughes said so! said it was "troubling"!

[nomatrix]

14. May I direct your attention to

2004 Pulitzer Prize
Toledo Blade
Buried Secrets/ Brutal Truths


http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=SRTIGERFORCE

"Michael D. Sallah, Mitch Weiss, and Joe Mahr received the investigative reporting prize for their series - "Buried Secrets, Brutal Truths" - which detailed how the Army failed to stop the atrocities after commanders were told about them. The reporters also discovered that the Army failed to prosecute soldiers who killed unarmed civilians after an investigation found the platoon had committed war crimes ."


Please read this, everyone. Stop questioning whether it happened. It did.

[notbush]

15. I don't want to fight the Vietnam war over and over and over...

I wish all this Vietnam war shit would just go away.
Kerry was a hero Bush was AWOL...
Who cares.
Let's talk about today's issues, and please Mr. Kerry don't preface every speech by saying "I fought in the war in Vietnam"
By the look of things right now , it's going to be a very close election.
We, as American's have got a shitload of stuff on our plates.
It makes me wonder if we don't need somebody under 50 running. A big % of voters were not even around during the war in Vietnam.
Let's moveon.

[zydeco]

19. I agree, let's get to the issues.

Where we can start waking up America and showing people what is going on with this crooked cartel of pretenders. Kerry on.

[madmax]

16. I have two friends and a cousin who served.I asked

what was VN like? The Deer Hunter? No, they said, more like Apocalypse Now. :scared:

[blm]

18. He was REPEATING testimony that he heard at Winter Soldier investigation.

His testimony is taken out of context by the right to fit their intentionally distorted storyline.

[pezcore64]

20. and

whats so unbelievable about that?

Surely u'd expect some crazy people to slip thru the cracks while a major draft was underway? Im sure there were some crazy americans sent over there with a gun in their hand. Thats why a draft isnt practical.

[whosinpower]

21. Of course US trroops committed war crimes

But even more significantly, is that the US government has never been led to accountability to the bombing campaigns of Laos and Cambodia.
Hundreds of thousands were murdered just during the bombing campaigns alone. Anybody recall any sort of compensation to the government of Cambodia, or Laos? Anybody recall any sort of international tribunal over that atrocity???

And you wonder why Kissinger is not allowed to travel abroad???????

I am all for Saddam being accountable for his crimes. I am all for Pol Pot to have been held accountable for his crimes. BUT, the standard must be equivalent across the globe. The US should not be exempt.