Kerry The War Criminal! Liberals Hate America!
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In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971,
representing Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Kerry promoted the
thesis that war crimes by American soldiers were "not isolated
incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full
awareness of officers at all levels of command." He then laid out some
of the alleged atrocities, as recounted by what he described as
"highly decorated veterans" at the Winter Soldiers Investigation
earlier that year in Detroit.
"At times," Kerry said, "they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut
off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and
turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at
civilians, razed villages in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan,
shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally
ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal
ravage of war . . ." Kerry spoke at length before the committee, and
his testimony is full of such lurid claims.
Russert played a tape in which Kerry made similar statements on Meet
the Press that year. "There are all kinds of atrocities," Kerry said
on the tape, "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-caliber 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 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 . . . by the letter of the law - the same letter of the law that
tried Lt. Calley - are war criminals."
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