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Atrocities are a dime a dozen. (Remember, Kerry is a real man. He's not a wimp like you or I. We can't judge him by our safe, geeky standards ; ) But yeah, Kerry sure picked a cushy way to try to get elected president 35 years later-- being on a swift boat in Southeast Asia.


> Nope. Kerry went over there with the stated intent of being "the next
> JFK", as he bragged to many fellow officers. He intentionally and
> unncessarily risked his men in order to build a military resume.

Uh huh. And the fact he was with these men and a risky decision would 
end this foolishness and his chances in the future of being "the next 
JFK" never entered his mind, right?

> He
> then came back, threw away his medals (actually they were someone
> else's medals, but he was still happy to dishonor them), testified
> before congress that he and everyone else there had committed war
> crimes,

Under some definitions it was arguably a criminal war.

> and was a participant in a VVAW meeting (as a member of the
> executive committee) plebiscite in late 1971 to vote on a plan to
> assassinate pro-war US Senators.


WHAT? You better have a LOT to back up such an outrageous claim.

-s

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