"Matthew G. Saroff" wrote in message
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"Tarver Engineering" wrote:


Kerry came home from Vietnam a hero and then called those he left behind,
"murderers".

Ummm...No.

He quoted what other veterans had testified to before
congress.

Not true. John Kerry in a 1971 newspaper interview:

"There are all kinds of atrocities, and I would have to say that,
yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other
soldiers have committed in that I took part in shootings in free fire
zones. I conducted harassment and interdiction fire. I used 50 calibre
machine guns, which we were granted and ordered to use, which were our only
weapon against people. I took part in search and destroy missions, in the
burning of villages. All of this is contrary to the laws of warfare, all of
this is contrary to the Geneva Conventions and all of this is ordered as a
matter of written established policy by the government of the United States
from the top down. And I believe that the men who designed these, the men
who designed the free fire zone, the men who ordered us, the men who signed
off the air raid strike areas, I think these men, by the letter of the law,
the same letter of the law that tried Lieutenant Calley, are war criminals."

lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/ sixties-l/3221.htm

So yes, he did label "thousands" as being "war criminals"--by his own
admission.

Brooks


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