"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
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"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
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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.

Where did I say he slandered the "state"?


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.

Yes, it is. So why did he "see" so many attrocities and do nothing, as he
would be required to do in his duty as an officer, about them?

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.

Before you decide to spin for the fellow, you might look past your rhetoric
and review his remarks and his actions.