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Kerry's statement was in pretty simple English which I understand quite well, Duck.

"I commited atrocities....which were a violation of the Geneva Conventions", he said.

And of course, the Nurnberg defense can be invoked, but it won't work because of the legal precedent set in the judgment at Nurnberg.

And no, I do not believe all our military in Viet Nam committed atrocities, but Kerry is the only one I know who has so confessed.

Great minds, sometimes....
Quite unassailably logical, dear Larry 434.

Larry434 wrote:

Kerry's statement was in pretty simple English which I understand quite well, Duck.

"I commited atrocities....which were a violation of the Geneva Conventions", he said.

And of course, the Nurnberg defense can be invoked, but it won't work because of the legal precedent set in the judgment at Nurnberg.

And no, I do not believe all our military in Viet Nam committed atrocities, but Kerry is the only one I know who has so confessed.

Again, the righties favorite tactic, lying by quoting out of context.

This guy Larry434 sounds a whole like some other bonehead I used to quarrel with by the name of Pragmaticone and BULLDOG.

According to his warped sense of logic, he would agree with Larry434 that since Kerry is the ONLY one to confess to atrocities, that he should take the fall for all the others who've done the same, and most likely worse. This by no way means that ALL Vietnam vets were guilty of atrocities, but Larry434 is more than willing to avoid the deeper core issues behind Kerry's revelatory testimony over 30 years ago, and instead brand him as a war criminal.

This is not only disengenuous, but in the end, it is mearly foolish.

Kerry's statement was in pretty simple English which I understand quite well, Duck.

"I commited atrocities....which were a violation of the Geneva Conventions", he said.

MR. CROSBY NOYES (Washington Evening Star): Mr. Kerry, you said at one time or another that you think our policies in Vietnam are tantamount to genocide and that the responsibility lies at all chains of command over there. Do you consider that you personally as a Naval officer committed atrocities in Vietnam or crimes punishable by law in this country?

SEN. KERRY: There are all kinds of atrocities, and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed in that I took part in shootings in free fire zones. I conducted harassment and interdiction fire. I used 50 calibre machine guns, which we were granted and ordered to use, which were our only weapon against people. I took part in search and destroy missions, in the burning of villages. All of this is contrary to the laws of warfare, all of this is contrary to the Geneva Conventions and all of this is ordered as a matter of written established policy by the government of the United States from the top down. And I believe that the men who designed these, the men who designed the free fire zone, the men who ordered us, the men who signed off the air raid strike areas, I think these men, by the letter of the law, the same letter of the law that tried Lieutenant Calley, are war criminals.

And George Bush was an absolute chickesh*t for not meeting with Max Cleland, a three time amputee and Vietnam vet.

And I love your avatar, Dookie.

Just curious, here, Dookiestix, are you familiar with the circumstances of Ex-Senator Cleland's wartime injuries?