- Brasscheck made an educated guess two weeks ago when
the news first broke. Only a few outlets (first Emperors-Clothes.com, then
antiwar.com, then CounterPunch) picked up on it. Now it's been confirmed
by one of Bob Kerrey's supporters:
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- According to Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, fellow
Vietnam vet Bob Kerrey was an operative (i.e. assassin) for the CIA's Phoenix
Program *
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- "John Kerry elaborated, in one television appearance,
on the thesis that soldiers should not be held responsible for actions
that were in accordance with the policies of the US government. The raid
on Thanh Phong was part of Operation Phoenix, he said, and "the Phoenix
program was an assassination program run by the United States of America."
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- Source: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/may2001/kerr-m14.shtml
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- The same article quoted John Kerry's testimony before
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971:
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- "I would like to say that several months ago in
Detroit we had an investigation at which over 150 honorably discharged
veterans testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia," Kerry
said. "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 a 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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- Also in the article:
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- "Journalist Neil Sheehan recently recalled that
in 1966, three years prior to the events in Thanh Phong and My Lai, he
personally witnessed an American operation in which US troops wiped out
five fishing villages, killing as many as 600 Vietnamese civilians. The
raids "seemed unnecessarily brutal," but "it did not occur
to me that I had discovered a possible war crime... I had never read the
laws governing the conduct of war, though I had watched the war for three
years in Vietnam and written about it for five ... The Army field manual
says it is illegal to attack hospitals. We routinely bombed and shelled
them ... looking back, one realizes the war crimes issue was always present."
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- Amazing, isn't it?
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- This "journalist" wrote about the war for FIVE
years and never bothered to crack a book on what constituted ethical conduct
in warfare and lacked the humanity to even speculate that the murdering
of civilians, including women and children, in cold blood might be a criminal
act.
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- For those of you who have never had the dubious honor
of dealing with the average American establishment journalist, this performance
- one part sloth, one part abject stupidity, two parts moral bankruptcy
- is the norm, not the exception.
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- Journalists like this and their editors and publishers
were key players in making the holocaust of Vietnam possible. They're hard
at work even now making today's atrocities possible.
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- Fortunately, there are a few exceptions - and now there's
the Internet... I urge you to read about one of the exceptions below and
consider supporting his work financially as I have:
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