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Originally posted by SuperScout .... and dishonoring the reputation and integrity of Vietnam veterans. "He burst into public prominence with testimony in April 1971 when he testified [under oath, in case anybody's forgotten] that it was routine practice for GI's to have 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 Vietnam." [Did anybody bother to ask where the facts are about the heinous charges?] According to Kerry, he had been told that Americans had "personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals" and other atrocities, yet he failed to report these alleged atrocities to the authorities? Isn't this failure just another manifestation of a lack of leadership on his part, a lack of manhood, or did he know that what he was testifiying about was just a big lie? The truth is, that Kerry knew it was a lie then, he knows it is still a lie, and he doesn't have, and probably never had the balls to tell the truth.

New and photos of his anti-war activities were later used to torment some of remaining POW's in that wonderful workers' paradise of North Vietnam, as if our POW's conditions and treatment wasn't bad enough. And remember, Kerry is a philosophical soulmate of our favorite target, Jane Hanoi Fonda.

After fighting in Vietnam, he returned to lead the protests against that war and urge the U.S. withdrawal that turned Indochina over to Communist rule for a generation. He was in favor of the nuclear freeze movement in the 1980s that would have frozen the Cold War in place with a Soviet advantage.

Kerry is an opportunisitic and grandstanding hypocrite, who would stand on the shoulders of dead troops to make himself look taller. Personally, I wouldn't urinate on him if he was on fire.

It looks like, somebody has been spending too much at the BIASED Vietnam Veterans Against Kerry, web site.

Senator John McCain came to the defense of a fellow Vietnam War Veteran and War Hero, Senator John Kerry, by attacking the credibility of a North Carolina veteran, Ted Sampley, who has dedicated himself to defeating Mr. Kerry in his campaign for President.

Sampley is the founder of the Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry.

McCain, an Arizona Republican, called the man, Sampley, "one of the most despicable people I have ever had the misfortune to encounter."