Retort to goharley's retort


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If you hadn't wittnessed him doing anything wrong---would you go before the entire world and call your brother a "RAPIST and BABY KILLER"? If you say you would, why?
First of all, that "brother" crap is so passe cliche.
It is the duty of a soldier to report to his superiors war crimes that are being committed. It was Kerry's duty to report to Congress what he'd learned from interviewing other vets. Again, he didn't say every veteran was guilty, he testified as to what he'd learned from other vets.--GH


So in other words if someone makes up something scathing about you (without any first hand knowledge) and attempts to discredit, humiliate and brand you as something you're not to the whole world for 30+ years, that's OK with you?--RB
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many Vietnam veterans and POW's feel that Kerry's VVAW lies and actions cost American lives and prolonged the war.
That isn't even logical. The testimony sped up the removal of troops from SE Asia. Logic dictates that the longer troops are in country, more die. Ergo, the sooner they are removed, the less die. Kinda like economics 101.--Gh

It's complelety logical--Hanoi John's lies led us to slowly withdraw troops and not support the ones in the field--if we had pursued an all or nothing policy and supported the soldiers
and allowed them to win--they would have--they never lost a single battle in Vietnam--Hanoi John lies and back-stabbing helped to defeat them at home (both in Vietnam and when they returned).
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His actions and lies about Winter Soldier investigations and the VVAW activities contributed to the death of an estimated 2.5-3.5 MILLION people that were killed by the Viet Cong after we withdrew from SE Asia.
Talk about massive speculative hyperbole. I'm sure you have credible evidence to support that Kerry's testimony before Congress resulted in millions of deaths in SE Asia. :rolleyes: --GH
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I do--the tribute to Hanoi John in a Ho Chi Minh city communist museum, that says that his (Hanoi John) and other anti-war activists like Hanoi Jane led to their total communist victory in Vietnam.

It's well documented (go rent "The Killing Fields" or read the book that inspired the movie) that 2.5 MILLION Cambodians and 1-1.5 MILLION South Vietnamese were murdered after we withdrew from SE Asia.--RB
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