ThatGuy said:
Kerry did do his part. He denounced an ad aired by MoveOn last week. That's a comparable situation. Kerry apologizing for his testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is not comparable.
http://www.cwes01.com/13790/23910/ktpp179-210.pdf
What here should Kerry apologize for? Give me the quotes.
Also, Del Sandusky, someone who may have more authority on Kerry's wounds, tells Dole to suck it.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002013026_webbush23.html
Here are the quotes that support what I said above.
"not isolated incidents, but crimes committed on a day to day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command"
"They relived the absolute horror of what this country has, in a sense, made them do."
"razed villiages in a fashion reminicient of Genghis Khan"
"We who have come here to Washington have come here because we feel we have to be winter soldiers now. We could come back to this country; we could be quiet; we could hold are silence; we could not tell what went on in Vietnam, but we feel because what threatens this country, the fact that the crimes threaten it, not reds and not redcoats, but the crimes which we are committing threaten it, that we have to seak out."
"The country doesn't know it yet, but it has created a monster, a monster in the forms of millions of men who have been taught to deal and to trade in violence, and who are given the chance to die for the biggest nothing in history; men who have returned with a sense of anger and a sense of betrayal which no one has yet grasped."
"In our opinion, and from our experience, there is nothing in South Vietnam, nothing which could happen that realistically threatens the United States of America. And to attempt to justify the loss of one American life in Vietnam, Cambodia, or Laos, by linking such loss to the preservation of freedom, which those misfits supposedly abuse, is to us the height of criminal hypocricy, and it is the kind of hypocricy which we feel has torn this country apart."
"we are probably angriest about all we were told about Vietnam and about the mystical war against communism."
"We fought using weapons against those people which I do not believe this country would dream of using were we fighting in the European theater or let us say non-third world people theater,"
"the hypocrisy in our taking umbrage in the Geneva Conventions and using that as a justification for the continuation of this war when we are more guilty than any other body of violations of those Geneva Conventions"
"But all they have done and all 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,"
"So what I am saying is yes, there will be some recrimination but far, far less than the 200,000 a year who are murdered by the United Sates of America,"
"Yes sir. I think we have a very definite obligation to make extensive reparations to the people of Indochina."
"It is my opinion that the United States is still reacting in very much the 1945 mood and postwar cold-war period when we reacted to the forces which were at work in World War II and came out of it with this paranoia about the Russians and how the world was going to be divided up between the super powers, and the foreign policy of John Foster Dulles which was responsible for the creation of the SEATO treaty, which was, in fact, a direct reaction to this so called Communist monolith. And I think we are reacting under Cold War precepts which are no longer applicable."
"Why do we have to, therefore, consider and keep considering threats?"
"but right now, we are reacting with paronoia to this question of peace and the people taking over the world."
"I think it is bogus, totally artificial. THERE IS NO THREAT. The Communist are not about to take over our McDonald hamburger stands."
" A lot of Guys, 60%, 80% stay stoned 24 hours a day just to get through the Vietnam"
