"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
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"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"?

Perhaps I misunderstood. If you were not referring to Kerry's criticism
of the actions of the US government and the US military, then whom,
specifically, do you claim Kerry slandered and what, specifically, are the
false accusations that the alleged slander consisted of?

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?

Kerry and his organization gathered documentation of far more than what
he personally witnessed. And his testimony before Congress *was* doing
something about it.

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.

I'm not spinning for Kerry. I find plenty to criticize him for (such as
voting to let Bush unilaterally go to war in Iraq under false pretenses).
But Kerry's activism in opposition to the US war in Vietnam was
exemplary of how patriots and humanitarians ought to behave.

--Gary