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September 22, 2004
John Kerry Tells the Truth About a War
We've all heard that the Swift Boat Veterans are just ordinary guys who are outraged over John Kerry's lies about U.S. atrocities in Vietnam. (By the way, did you know that the leader of the vets, John O'Neill, was used by Nixon, Colson, and Haldeman to counter Kerry back in 1971? He's hardly some apolitical, ordinary guy.) Well, the facts tell a different story, according to Nicholas Turse in the Village Voice:
The archives have hundreds of files of official U.S. military investigations of such atrocities committed by American soldiers. I've pored over those records—which were classified for decades—for my Columbia University dissertation and, now, this Voice article. The exact number of investigated allegations of atrocities is unknown, as is the number of such barbaric incidents that occurred but weren't investigated. Some war crimes, like the Tiger Force atrocities exposed last year by The Toledo Blade, have only come to light decades later. Others never will. But there are plentiful records to back up Kerry's 1971 testimony point by point.
Turse then goes on to provide sample evidence of every allegation Kerry made. It's a good read.
Thanks to Antiwar.com for the links.
Posted by Mike Tennant at September 22, 2004 01:50 PM