"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
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"Corky Scott" wrote in message
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On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:45:05 -0700, "Tom Sixkiller"
wrote:

"Peter" wrote in message
news:LA%Qb.152462$na.260922@attbi_s04...

According to CNN (and numerous other sources), Kerry has been
awarded
both
distinctions:
"It was in 1971 that Kerry, then 27, appeared before the Senate
Foreign
Relations Committee to speak out against U.S. policy in Vietnam.

And that testimony is going to be a part of his downfall when it gets
thoroughly analyzed during the later campaign.

Why might that be?

Gross slander and dereliction of duty for starters.

What a totalitarian sentiment. "Slandering the state" is what the Soviet
Union used to charge dissidents with when they denounced acts of
international aggression committed by their country, as Kerry had the
courage to do with regard to the US invasion and conquest of South Vietnam.

Dereliction of duty? One of an officer's principal duties under domestic
and international law is to prevent his own side from committing war crimes.
If Kerry had remained silent about the massive, systematic atrocities
committed by the US in its brutal attempt to impose a puppet dictatorship
upon the people of South Vietnam (killing literally millions of people in
the process), THAT would have been a dereliction of his legal and moral duty
as a soldier, a citizen, and a human being.

--Gary