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After so much of calling Kerry a traitor and a liar on this blog I wonder if any of those that thing this way would care to comment on the story series in the Toledo Blade that received a Pulitzer Prize recently. The story is called "Buried Secrets, Brutal Truths." It is about Tiger Force in Vietnam in the 1967. The story mentions shooting women and children and cutting off ears of Vietnamese dead.
IF this is true, what does that say for Kerry? Is he still a liar? Is he a traitor, because he told the truth about American servicemen commiting atrocities? I happen to think that is the high type of moral man. He didn't ignore a higher calling just because the law of the pack doesn't allow for negative truths about itself.
I am not sure of the facts, but it looks pretty convincing that there is truth behind what Kerry told Congress about.
Posted by pete at April 12, 2004 04:52 PM
A single unit does not constitute the entire armed forces.
My uncle served with the 101st LRRP and he assures me he never did or saw anything related to it either. Granted that the above statement is heresay, my problem with Kerry stems from you don't tout your experiences in Vietnam (a whole 4 months) to those who served much longer, and in ther same breath call everyone you served with baby killers and mutilators.
Think of that when pointing a finger at us. What type of morals does one have who disregards his fellow man and stereotypes a entire spectrum with words to elevate himself?
In a word: Hypocrite.
Posted by BloodSpite at April 12, 2004 06:13 PM
I am reading of US military deaths every day and that is only part of the destruction going on in Iraq to US and to them. I don't think Bush is capable of stopping it. That's why I am looking for a winning alternative, but not on the backs of our military.
I don't think Kerry called the entire US military in Nam mutilators. Actually, saying he said they were also killers cannot be considered as wrong since that is what American military was in Nam for. I have not seen any verbatim transcripts of his statments to Congress or to the country. I kind of doubt he would have been so foolish and out of line to make that mistake. If you have authentic quotes or refences to his statements to that effect directed at the entire military presence in Vietnam let me have them.
My point is to get Bush and his gang out of office. If there was truth to the statements Kerry was making, then isn't it worth looking at the 1971-1972 situation again based on the new information of US atrocities in 1967?
Posted by pete at April 13, 2004 06:46 AM
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