Re: Kerry's Admission of Atrocities on National TV

From: Jim Yanik (jyanik_at_abuse.gov.)
Date: 11/02/04 

Date: 2 Nov 2004 13:14:09 GMT

toor@iquest.net (John S. Dyson) wrote in
news:cm6scj$1tl6$2@news.iquest.net:

> In article <cm6j68$1qr$3@blue.rahul.net>,
> kensmith@green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) writes:
>> In article <6c71b322.0411011526.7e518017@posting.google.com>,
>> Tom Seim <soar2morrow@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>There have been claims on SED that Kerry has never admitted to
>>>committing atrocities in Vietnam.
>>
>> I don't think I ever said that. I said he never said that he
>> committed war crimes. There is a huge difference, because the word
>> atrocities covers a lot of things that are not war crimes, doubly so
>> when it is being used in common language and not in a legal sense.
>>
> Mostly, those atrocities that Kerry lied about (or committed) were/are
> unacceptable acts, or Kerry told unacceptable lies. Frankly, Kerry's
> admission appears to have been partially coached by a lawyer,

I suspect Kerry was coached by the North Vietnamese.
His "testimony" came after he met with the enemy. 

-- 
Jim Yanik
jyanik-at-kua.net

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