Ex-POWs slam Kerry's war-protest activities " Jim Warner, a prisoner of the North Vietnamese in the Hoa Lo prison complex -- known to U.S. servicemen as the Hanoi Hilton -- remembers Kerry. He became acquainted with him, he said, when a North Vietnamese guard and interrogator the prisoners nicknamed "Boris" took Warner to the quiz shack in the complex's punishment camp called "Skid Row" in May 1971.
During a four-hour propaganda and harassment session, Boris pulled papers from his pocket and gave them to Warner to think about, he said. Some were clippings from a leftist newspaper in the United States. The other was a typewritten transcript of Kerry's testimony before a U.S. Senate panel in which he repeated allegations of U.S. troops routinely committing atrocities, attacking the war and saying communism was not a threat in Vietnam.
The atrocity allegations were garnered from the so-called Winter Soldier Investigation in Detroit in early 1971, in which actress and activist Jane Fonda and Kerry, a leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, were involved.
At that event people claiming to have seen combat in Vietnam alleged committing atrocities -- rape, cutting off of ears and heads, murdering women and children -- on a routine basis and with the knowledge of their superiors. Many of the allegations proved false or could not be documented, and the veracity and identities of many witnesses later came into question."
new SBVT ad:
KERRY: "They personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads ..."
JOE PONDER (wounded 1968): The accusations that John Kerry made against the veterans who served in Vietnam were just devastating ..."
KERRY: "... randomly shot at civilians ..."
PONDER: "... more than any physical wounds I had."
KERRY: "... cut off limbs, blown up bodies ..."
KEN CORDIER (former POW): "That was part of the torture, that you had to sign a statement that you committed war crimes."
KERRY: "... razed villages in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan ..."
PAUL GALANTI (former POW): John Kerry gave the enemy for free what I and my comrades in the prison camps in North Vietnam took torture to avoid saying."
KERRY: "... crimes committed on a day-to-day basis ..."
CORDIER: "He betrayed us in the past. How could we be loyal to him now?"
KERRY: "... ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam ..."
GALANTI: "He dishonored his country and, more importantly, the veterans he served with. He sold them out."
bye bye skerry
