Winter Soldier, Fulbright Committee and John Kerry

Just in case you forgot, the following are direct quotes taken from John Kerry's testimony at the Fulbright Committee Hearings relating to the Winter Soldier farce that he and *spit* Jane Fonda *spit* conducted in Detroit earlier in 1971(Kerry was out of actuve duty at this time but was still in the Naval Reserve):

"Over 150 honorably discharged and many very highly decorated veterans testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia, not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command. It is impossible to describe to you exactly what did happen in Detroit, the emotions in the room, the feelings of the men who were reliving their experiences in Vietnam, but they did, they relived the absolute horror of what this country, in a sense, made them do. They told their stories. At times 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 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, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country."

Later in his testimony he came out with this:

"We wish that a merciful God could wipe away our own memories of that service as easily as this administration has wiped their memories of us. But all that they have done and all that they can do by this denial is to make more clear than ever our own determination to undertake one last mission, to search out and destroy the last vestige of this barbaric war, to pacify our own hearts, to conquer the hate and the fear that have driven this country these last ten years and more, and so when in 30 years from now our brothers go down the street without a leg, without an arm, or a face, and small boys ask why, we will be able to say "Vietnam" and not mean a desert, not a filthy obscene memory, but mean instead the place where America finally turned and where soldiers like us helped it in the turning."

We owe it to our brother veterans and to each and every person who loves the United States of America to make certain that these words do not get swept under the rug, but are read by every person who is considering voting for that traitor. Lest anyone forget, Kerry also said that HE COMMITTED THE SAME "CRIMES"!!