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Kerry Committed War Crimes, 'Burned Villages'
by United Press International Monday, Mar. 22, 2004 at 4:48 PM

The Presumptive Democratic Nominee for President of the U.S. Is a Confessed Baby Killer.

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040309-122413-8660r

Another site, Wintersoldier.com, places records from Sen. Kerry's anti-war protests online, including the transcript of the full question and answer session before a U.S. Senate committee, where the young Vietnam veteran detailed, among other activities, his trip as a civilian to the Paris Peace talks involving the U.S., South Vietnamese and North Vietnamese governments.

"I have been to Paris. I have talked with both delegations at the peace talks -- that is to say the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government," Kerry said during testimony on April 22, 1971, before the Foreign Relations Committee, according to the transcript posted on the site.

Wintersoldier.com also features audio sound bites -- in the MP3 format -- of Kerry describing what he did in Vietnam, both in testimony before the Senate and in an interview.

"Yes, I committed the same kinds of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed," Kerry said in the sound bite. "I took part in search and destroy missions, in the burning of villages."

www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040309-122413-8660r

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this title is misleading
by scott conrad Wednesday, Mar. 24, 2004 at 4:51 PM

War crimes? baby killer? Some facts are stated here about Kerry. The context of those events is that Kerry was an activist trying to stop the war. As a person who had served there and knew what was happening in Vietnam reported on the facts of his service there in the US military, that he participated in "Search and destroy missions and burned villages", The way this is stated it was as if he was bragging about it like it was a good thing. No rather he was talking about it as a bad thing. He is only a criminal in so much as the act of the US government putting him there and ordering him to do what he did is criminal. This Title is just sensationalism. These were the standard tactics used by US forces in Vietnam. So are you saying all Vietnam vets are criminals?

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