Submitted by alexdenipaul on Tue, 12/08/2009 - 07:13.
Kerry's exchange with the senators consumed
two complete hours, ranging from earlier French experiences in
Indochina to the status of the war in 1971. Kerry faulted the
electronic press for failure to report a recent antiwar conference
because of its lack of "visual" appeal and entertainment
value. He also cited the "exorbitant" power of the Executive,
faulting Congress accept credit card.
In response to Senator Symington's
inquiry about American men and women still in Vietnam and their
attitude toward opposition to the war within Congress, Kerry offered
the following comments.
...I don't want to get into the
game of saying I represent everybody over there, but let me try
to say as straightforwardly as I can, we had an advertisement,
ran full page, to show you what the troops read. It ran in Playboy
and the response to it within two and a half weeks from Vietnam
was 1,200 members. We received initially about 50 to 80 letters
a day from troops arriving at our New York office. Some of these
letters -- and I wanted to bring some down web design services, I didn't know we were
going to be testifying here and I can make them available to you
-- are very, very moving, some of them written by hospital corpsmen
on things, on casualty report sheets which say, you know, "Get
us out of here." "You are the only hope he have got."
"You have got to get us back; it is crazy." We received
recently 80 members of the 101st Airborne signed up in one letter.
Forty members from a helicopter assault squadron, crash and rescue
mission signed up in another one.
I think they are expressing, some
of these troops, solidarity with us, right now by wearing black
arm bands and Vietnam Veterans Against the War buttons. They want
to come out and I think they are looking at the people who want
to try to get them out as a help wireless internet providers.
However, I do recognize there
are some men who are in the military for life. The job in the
military is to fight wars. When they have a war to fight, they
are just as happy in a sense, and I am sure that these men feel
they are being stabbed in the back. But, at the same time, I think
to most of them the realization of the emptiness, the hollowness,
the absurdity of Vietnam has finally hit home, and I feel is they
did come home the recrimination would certainly not come from
the right, from the military. I don't think there would be that
problem...internet phone
Kerry's exchange with the
Kerry's exchange with the senators consumed
two complete hours, ranging from earlier French experiences in
Indochina to the status of the war in 1971. Kerry faulted the
electronic press for failure to report a recent antiwar conference
because of its lack of "visual" appeal and entertainment
value. He also cited the "exorbitant" power of the Executive,
faulting Congress accept credit card.
In response to Senator Symington's
inquiry about American men and women still in Vietnam and their
attitude toward opposition to the war within Congress, Kerry offered
the following comments.
...I don't want to get into the
game of saying I represent everybody over there, but let me try
to say as straightforwardly as I can, we had an advertisement,
ran full page, to show you what the troops read. It ran in Playboy
and the response to it within two and a half weeks from Vietnam
was 1,200 members. We received initially about 50 to 80 letters
a day from troops arriving at our New York office. Some of these
letters -- and I wanted to bring some down web design services, I didn't know we were
going to be testifying here and I can make them available to you
-- are very, very moving, some of them written by hospital corpsmen
on things, on casualty report sheets which say, you know, "Get
us out of here." "You are the only hope he have got."
"You have got to get us back; it is crazy." We received
recently 80 members of the 101st Airborne signed up in one letter.
Forty members from a helicopter assault squadron, crash and rescue
mission signed up in another one.
I think they are expressing, some
of these troops, solidarity with us, right now by wearing black
arm bands and Vietnam Veterans Against the War buttons. They want
to come out and I think they are looking at the people who want
to try to get them out as a help wireless internet providers.
However, I do recognize there
are some men who are in the military for life. The job in the
military is to fight wars. When they have a war to fight, they
are just as happy in a sense, and I am sure that these men feel
they are being stabbed in the back. But, at the same time, I think
to most of them the realization of the emptiness, the hollowness,
the absurdity of Vietnam has finally hit home, and I feel is they
did come home the recrimination would certainly not come from
the right, from the military. I don't think there would be that
problem...internet phone