What exactly did he say Dawn that trumps everything else he'd done. Sources too please.
Well documented and easy to find. This is just one of many sources;
s spokesman for Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), Kerry never once protested the Hanoi communist's war crimes although he knew of them at the time. However, he did march under the Vietnamese communists banner with Jane Fonda protesting the U.S. involvement in the war, and praising Ho Chi Minh.
Kerry also testified the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971 that American servicemen in Vietnam committed atrocities, reminiscent of Genghis Khan, and that these acts were "not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command calling all Vietnam Veterans, those who were killed, and those still fighting in Vietnam war criminals.
On April 18, 1971, Kerry appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press" stating "Yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities..." Whether this was a mea culpa by Kerry, only he knows; however, his testimony was largely based on fabrications by purported Vietnam combat veterans presented at the Jane Fonda-funded Winter Soldier Investigation.
A great share of these purported combat veterans were phonies and proven to have never been in the military, or if so, never having served in Vietnam, or if having served in Vietnam had never seen combat.
Kerry's fabrications gave aid-and comfort to the enemy, and were used by the North Vietnamese communists as the basis to torture and demoralize American POWs.
While I was a POW in Hanoi, we were lectured repeatedly by the communist political officers regarding John Kerry's testimony before congress in which he accused us of being "war criminals."
We were told that as such, we were going to be tried in Nuremberg-like war crimes trials and "we would be held forever." Many others were tortured as a result of Kerry's testimony.
As a Senator, Kerry has fought harder for the Vietnamese communists than he ever did against them during his four months as a Swift Boat commander. Kerry's picture hangs in the Vietnamese communist's war museum in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), in which he is immortalized in tribute to aiding the communists in winning the war.
In 2001, Kerry single-handed prevented the Vietnam Human Rights Act from going to the floor of the Senate for a democratic up or down vote after passing the House 410-1.
On June 21, Vietnamese News Agency (the mouthpiece for Hanoi's communist party) cited presidential candidate John Kerry's 1971 fabricated testimony as proof that the U.S. committed war crimes in the conduct of the Vietnam War and compared this to the US treatment of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
Ironically, in the same article, the Vietnamese communists had the audacity to claim, "they treated captured U.S. troops humanely" during the Vietnam War.
If Senator Biden is so concerned over adhering to the Geneva Conventions on Prisoners, why then hasn't he called for war crimes trials for the North Vietnamese communist criminals instead of continually rewarding Hanoi with taxpayers dollars?
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Michael Benge spent 11 years in Viet Nam, over five years as a Prisoner of War-1968-73. While serving as a civilian Foreign Service Officer, he was captured in South Viet Nam by the North Vietnamese and held in numerous camps in South Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos, and North Viet Nam. He spent 27 months in solitary confinement and one year in a "black box." For efforts in rescuing several Americans prior to capture, he received the State Department's highest award for heroism and a second one for valor.
