The Testimony of John Kerry

Below is the strangest remark I can remember seeing this campaign season.

Some of the things we thought were stupid, like making a big deal out of his military service at the DNC, were probably brilliant. It didn’t matter what we thought at the time, he knew that by now it would be a distant memory. It’s the background he needed to be believable as someone who cares about what happens to the people in Iraq. It’s almost as if he were laying the groundwork when he was testifying on coming back from Vietnam. It all fits together, and he skillfully put all the pieces together in the debate. Thanks to the Swifties for running the footage. - Dave Winer

Senator Kerry certainly has reason to be proud of his testimony.

They told stories that, at times, they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Ghengis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam,in addition to the normal ravage of war and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country. - John Kerry

Even though there is growing evidence that none of it was true.

The VVAW found me during a difficult time in my life, and I let them use me to advance their political agenda. They pressured me to tell their lies, but that’s no excuse for what I did. I just want people to know the truth and to make amends as best I can. I’d hate to see the troops serving today have to go through what Vietnam veterans did. - Steve Pitkin

Just as there is evidence of where the stories began.

As a spy chief and a general in the former Soviet satellite of Romania, I produced the very same vitriol Kerry repeated to the U.S. Congress almost word for word and planted it in leftist movements throughout Europe. KGB chairman Yuri Andropov managed our anti-Vietnam War operation. He often bragged about having damaged the U.S. foreign-policy consensus, poisoned domestic debate in the U.S., and built a credibility gap between America and European public opinion through our disinformation operations. Vietnam was, he once told me, “our most significant success.” - Ion Mihai Pacepa

Senator Kerry can be proud as well that his words were heard by Americans being held.

When I heard the replay of that Senate hearing, saying “Genghis Khan,” it came out. All of a sudden I was back in Hanoi for the first time since I’d been home in 1973. But I don’t think he thought about us. I don’t think he thought about anybody except himself when he was reading that prepared speech. - Paul Galanti

And those holding them.

Kerry encouraged the North Vietnamese to keep us in captivity longer which meant more torture, more lost years and, sadly, more death. - Ken Cordier

The North Vietnameese came to understand the power of those words written in Moscow and repeated in Washington.

All through this period, the “gooks” were bombarding us with antiwar quotes from people in high places back in Washington. This was the most effective propaganda they had to use against us-speeches and statements by men who were generally respected in the United States. - John McCain

The only thing I will never understand about John Kerry is how we has the temerity to show his face in public.

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