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Originally posted by techweenie
. .. . Look at the testimony of the 150 vets in Detroit that J. Kerry speaks of.
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Yes; what a good idea. . . let's look at that.
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WINTER SOLDIER INVESTIGATION
I would like to talk, representing all those veterans, and say that several months ago in Detroit, we had an investigation at which over 150 honorably discharged and many very highly decorated veterans testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia, not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command....
They told the stories 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 Genghis 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.
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Kerry has a history of embelishing in a Clintonian fashion. So, giving Kerry the benifit of the doubt that what he says is grammatically true,
you have to, also, consider that it maybe inferentially false. . . .it is just the way Kerry spins; sorry.
So for Kerry's words here to be true; all it takes is for ONE GUY (of the 150) to make the over the top claim of:
"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 Genghis Khan, poisoned food stocks. . ." AND, have the 149 others to cop to
shooting cattle and dogs for fun, and generally ravaged the countryside.
Do you see that? If you do ACTUALLY LOOK at the testimony of the 150 vets in Detroit that J. Kerry speaks of. . . you might not draw the same conclusion that the writer/speaker
implied.
So, show some critical thinking; rather than just swamping us with Kerrys puff and "the sky is falling" scare tacticts.
You see, as Moneyguy says, "The "True Believers" on the side of the camp doing the parsing will believe every word of what is written." You're looking like a "True Believer" with
all this peppering.
I'll be black for your reply.