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Originally Posted by daswig
Nope. But giving propaganda aid to the enemy IS treason. See Lord Haw-Haw and Tokyo Rose for examples. That's what Kerry did. He met with the NVA leadership when he had no authority to do so, and while he was still a member of hte US military. He made statements before the Fulbright Commission which were not only fraudulent, but were used by the enemy as psychological torture material against POWs who belonged to the same military he did. He took the NVA's "talking points", and brought them back to the US, and then pushed for their adoption. That, my friend, is a TEXTBOOK case of giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
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daswig, re: your post #34 in this thread. You made some serious accusations.
Care to defend them with evidence.....here's some references to refute what
you are saying. Please refrain from undocumented attacks.
Your accusations that Kerry "made statements before the Fulbright Commission which were not only fraudulent" in his 1971 testimony, directly contradicts the research and conclusions of the experts at <a href="http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docid=244">FACTCHECK.org</a> Here is the information from their website, complete with links:
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Kerry's critics point to a 1978 history of Vietnam that challenged some of the witnesses Kerry quoted. But other published accounts provide ample evidence that atrocities such as those Kerry described actually were committed........
The record gives no sign that Kerry doubted the stories he was relating. In fact, he said earlier this year that he still stands by much of what he said 33 years earlier (see below) and that "a lot of them (the atrocity stories) have been documented."........
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I find this article about Colin Powell and his link to My Lai interesting.
You can click anywhere on the quote below to read the whole salon.com source.
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" Kerry's critics argue that My Lai was an isolated incident, but at least one celebrated general doesn't agree.
Secretary of State Colin Powell held a command position in the Army's Americal Division, which had included Calley's unit, and he was asked to investigate the earliest allegations about My Lai. He failed to uncover the massacre and was later accused of facilitating the coverup. Whether that accusation is fair or not, Powell knows what happened in Vietnam.
"My Lai was an appalling example of much that had gone wrong in Vietnam," he wrote in his bestselling autobiography, "My American Journey." "The involvement of so many unprepared officers and noncoms led to breakdowns in morale, discipline and professional judgment -- and to horrors like My Lai -- as the troops became numb to what appeared to be endless and mindless slaughter." </a>