1q2w3e wrote:Well, Kerry himself admitted to committing those attrocities, right?
But then Kerry lied about being in Cambodia, so his credability is shot.
o.k....one more time. kerry admitted to the crap like burning down hooches, free fire zones etc., as ordered. do these things violate the convention? hell if i know. kerry obviously found them atrocious. wouldn't you? bastard! he followed orders!
my father was on detachment from the u.s. navy with the british commandos during wwII for what we would now call "wet work" against the nazis in southern italy, after he did north africa and sicily. he tells me that if i were to try to get a record of it, there would be a blank page, so to speak. i only learned about it this year, before he went in for a surgery that he feared he would not survive...AND the ndo had run out.
strangely, when i hear the words, "cambodia" and "credibility", i think of john ellis o'neill's recent claims that he had never been in cambodia. and the tape recorded converstion he had with nixon in '71 whereupon he proudly told of being in cambodia. "on a swift boat?". "yes, on a swiftboat.".
