http://www.usvetdsp.com/jf_kerry.htm

While in command of Swift Boat 44, Kerry and crew operated without
prudence in a Free Fire Zone, carelessly firing at targets of
opportunity racking up a number of enemy kills and some civilians. His
body count included-- a woman, her baby, a 12 year-old boy, an elderly
man and several South Vietnamese soldiers.

"It is one of those terrible things, and I'll never forget, ever, the
sight of that child," Kerry later said about the dead baby. "But there
was nothing that anybody could have done about it. It was the only
instance of that happening."
Kerry said he was appalled that the Navy's ''free fire zone'' policy
in Vietnam put civilians at such high risk.

Yeah he was appaled because his ultimate hero - JFK started the war.
It was really more of a "business deal" between JFK & LBJ to make a
LOT of money. LBJ wanted a bigger cut and cut JFK out of the deal.
The Kennedys still made millions off Vietnam.

Kerry later smeared all Vietnam Vets as baby killers to afvance his
career. Oddly, Kerry was in the very small minority of "baby
killers."



.. Stewart Forbes, Chief Executive Officer of Colliers International
(Kerry's cousin), was awarded a contract worth billions designating
Colliers International as the exclusive real estate agent representing
Vietnam.


In December of 1992, not long after Kerry was quoted in the world
press stating "President Bush should reward Vietnam within a month for
its increased cooperation in accounting for American MIAs," Vietnam
announced it had granted Boston, Massachusetts based Colliers
International, a contract worth billions. Colliers International
became exclusive real estate agent representing Vietnam.
That deal alone put Colliers in a position to make tens of millions of
dollars on the rush to upgrade Vietnam's ports, railroads, highways,
government buildings, etc.


In 1991, the United States Senate created the Senate Select Committee
on POW/MIA Affairs to examine the possibility that U.S. POW/MIAs might
still be held by the Vietnamese.

As chairman of the Select Committee, Kerry proved himself to be a
masterful chameleon portraying to the public at large what appeared to
be an unbiased approach to resolving the POW/MIA issue.

But, in reality, no one in the United States Senate pushed harder to
bury the POW/MIA issue, the last obstacle preventing normalization of
relations with Hanoi, than John Forbes Kerry.

In fact, his first act as chairman was to travel to Southeast Asia,
where during a stopover in Bangkok, Thailand, he lectured the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce there on the importance of lifting the trade
embargo and normalizing relations with Vietnam.

During the entire life of the Senate Select Committee, Kerry never
missed a chance to propaganderize and distort the facts in favor of
Hanoi.








Much of Kerry's speech before Congress painted his fellow GIs as so
brutal that, today, they could easily be mistaken for Saddam Hussein's
Fedayeen killers.
He reported to Congress that U.S. soldiers had "personally raped, cut
off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human
genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies,
randomly shot at civilians, razed villages, shot cattle and dogs for
fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of
South Vietnam."



Kerry soon assumed a leadership position in the rabid pro-communist
VVAW organization.
Kerry, pictured right, directing VVAW's massive pro-Hanoi
demonstration in Washington. - April 1971
John F. Kerry wanted his piece of the Vietnam money pie and he later
sold out POWs and MIAa during the "normalization" of relativs with
Vietnam.