John Kerry the war criminal: Unfit to command, part 2

[Lincoln]

Maybe we could change the tone of this thread by talking about something that is not disputed, i.e., the fact that John Kerry is a war criminal. Should George Bush offer him a pardon like Ford did to Nixon in order to heal old wounds? I think it would be gracious of Bush if he at least made a token offer to pardon Kerry for his war crimes. What does everyone think about my idea?

[Drake Tungsten]

Capital idea...

[Ming]

Originally posted by Lincoln
Maybe we could change the tone of this thread by talking about something that is not disputed, i.e., the fact that John Kerry is a war criminal. Should George Bush offer him a pardon like Ford did to Nixon in order to heal old wounds? I think it would be gracious of Bush if he at least made a token offer to pardon Kerry for his war crimes. What does everyone think about my idea?

graciious...

[Lincoln]

I am just trying to spare the nation a long and devisive trial. Maybe Kerry could say that he was not a war criminal before he was, and that would help mitigate the sentence.

[Monk]

Originally posted by Lincoln
Maybe we could change the tone of this thread by talking about something that is not disputed, i.e., the fact that John Kerry is a war criminal. Should George Bush offer him a pardon like Ford did to Nixon in order to heal old wounds? I think it would be gracious of Bush if he at least made a token offer to pardon Kerry for his war crimes. What does everyone think about my idea?

I think you had the potential for an effective troll there, but you got carried away and overdid it.

[Lincoln]

[SpencerH]

Originally posted by Monk


I think you had the potential for an effective troll there, but you got carried away and overdid it.

Troll my ass, it was a brilliant example of thinking outside the box.

[Drake Tungsten]

They just showed the new SwiftVets ad on TV here in Japan, all because Kerry decided to file that FEC complaint. Might not have been the smartest move...

[chequita guevara]

Filing FEC complaints is actually quite common, it turns out. Most get denied, however.

[Lincoln]

I have to apologize to everyone now because I just found out that Kerry is a highly esteemed war hero. They even have his picture posted in the war museum in Vietnam!



On Memorial Day, May 31, 2004, Vietnam Vets for the Truth broke an extraordinary story about a photograph hanging in the Vietnamese Communist War Remnants Museum (formerly known as the "War Crimes Museum") in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). The photograph, displayed in a room dedicated to foreign activists who contributed to the Communist victory over America in the Vietnam War, shows Senator John Kerry being greeted by Comrade Do Muoi, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam. Jeffrey M. Epstein of Vietnam Vets for the Truth acquired the photograph during the Memorial Day weekend in response to a general request for photographs and records detailing Kerry's activities on behalf of the enemy.

Vietnam Vets for the Truth has now further documented the photograph. Photographer Bill Lupetti returned to the War Remnants Museum in Saigon on June 2 at the request of Dr. Jerome Corsi, co-author of the original article, and photographed a current edition of the "Viet Nam News" next to the display honoring John Kerry.

http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/staticpages/index.php?page=20040604194804799

[GePap]

NOt even 1/1000 as worthwhile as the pic of Rummy being chummy with Saddam.

Lets not forget that Kerry was at the forefront of re-establishing ties with Vietnam, which is most liekly the basis of that pic.

[Dr Strangelove]

The linked article states that the picture was made in 1993 during a diplomatic mission to Vietnam initiated by President Clinton. I wonder how many congressional missions to Vietnam have been conducted since 1975? Let's also not forget those missions made by prominent Americans on behalf of POWs/MIAs. Perhaps now all those who made such missions, even on behalf of MIAs, can be subject to outright extortion.

[DanS]

ITYM "distortion", not "extortion?"

[DanS]

Here's another WaPo article about the event.

In pertinent part...

Some of the mystery surrounding exactly what happened on the Bay Hap River in March 1969 could be resolved by the full release of all relevant records and personal diaries. Much information is available from the Web sites of the Kerry campaign and Swift BoatVeterans for Truth, and the Navy archives. But both the Kerry and anti-Kerry camps continue to deny or ignore requests for other relevant documents, including Kerry's personal reminiscences (shared only with biographer Brinkley), the boat log of PCF-94 compiled by Medeiros (shared only with Brinkley) and the Chenoweth diary.

Although Kerry campaign officials insist that they have published Kerry's full military records on their Web site (with the exception of medical records shown briefly to reporters earlier this year), they have not permitted independent access to his original Navy records. A Freedom of Information Act request by The Post for Kerry's records produced six pages of information. A spokesman for the Navy Personnel Command, Mike McClellan, said he was not authorized to release the full file, which consists of at least a hundred pages.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21239-2004Aug21.html

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Second Swift boat commander backs Kerry's story

(Original story)

"The critics have taken pains to say they're not trying to cast doubts on the merit of what others did, but their version of events has splashed doubt on all of us. It's gotten harder and harder for those of us who were there to listen to accounts we know to be untrue, especially when they come from people who were not there," Rood said in a 1,700-word first-person account published in Sunday's Tribune.