[Vacets-local-dc] [More Vietnam Vets Speak up against Kerry]

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In 1970, Kerry met with the Vietnamese at the Paris Peace Talks and the POWs say he came back and pushed the Vietnamese plan for U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam."

Mary Jane McManus said, "He was supporting their plan; that to me is aid and comfort to the enemy. That is treason."

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ELECTION 2004 More Vietnam Vets Speak up against Kerry

By Melissa Charbonneau
White House Correspondent

September 9, 2004




CBN.com – WASHINGTON -- More Vietnam veterans are coming forward to speak out against Sen. John Kerry. In a new documentary, former prisoners of war are speaking out against Kerry's anti-war record after Vietnam. 
Kerry has been bashing President Bush over the war in Iraq over Bush's so-called "wrong choices" but Kerry himself is under assault again, in the just-released documentary "Stolen Honor."

Dozens of former prisoners of war are coming forward to condemn Kerry's anti-war activities. They charge that Kerry smeared the innocent, aided the enemy, and jeopardized the lives of Americans held captive in Vietnam prison camps."

In the film, decorated Vietnam war heroes cite Kerry's 1971 Senate testimony accusing the U.S. military of war atrocities, charges highlighted in recent Swift Boat ads.

Mary Jane McManus, her husband a POW for nearly six years, says Kerry's speech enraged her. She said she was, "Furious!! I cannot even control myself today." 

Kevin McManus learned after his release that Kerry had accused him and other Americans of doing what he suffered torture to avoid saying. He said, "They went after you a good solid three-week period, trying to get you to sign anything -- their preference was, that you signed something saying you committed war crimes."

What bothers McManus most is that Kerry's charges continue to torture the families of POWs who never came home.

He said, "How would you feel if you thought your father was guilty of war crimes, or your husband or your child, even if you didn't think they were guilty? But you had a nagging doubt they were guilty, after 30 or 40 years?"

In 1970, Kerry met with the Vietnamese at the Paris Peace Talks and the POWs say he came back and pushed the Vietnamese plan for U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam."

Mary Jane McManus said, "He was supporting their plan; that to me is aid and comfort to the enemy. That is treason."

At the time, POW wives feared if Kerry was successful in getting a U.S. withdrawal, their husbands would die in prison.

Mary Jane McManus said, "If we had set a date, pulled out our troops, the Vietnamese were telling the POW's all along, 'if they pull out, then we try you for war crimes'!

Former POW Jim Warner said, "If they withdraw unilaterally, our value goes to zero. And what do you think Communists do to people who have no value?"

Warner says POWs like him were bargaining chips for the Communists. Kerry's statements were used by Warner's captors to threaten him during interrogations.

Warner remarked, "The interrogator started yelling at me, pointing at Kerry's testimony, saying, 'See, here is an officer in your own Navy who says you are a criminal and you deserve punishment.' And I thought maybe the executions would start right now. So this really gave me some anxiety for quite some time." 

Warner added, "I think it showed incredibly bad judgment to have made these statements, knowing that it was going to put us at risk. Or it showed callous indifference to our fate."

Some POW's accuse Kerry of being a dupe in his anti-war activities; others say he ingratiated himself with Senate liberals for future campaigns.

Kevin McManus said, " He doesn't care what he's done to the vast majority of men who served in Vietnam, and in particular the dead, their families. He has absolutely no feeling for them, only if they help him in gaining this office."

The Kerry campaign did not respond to CBN News' request for a response to the latest veterans' attack on the senator.

The POW's insist that they have no political motivations. They say they are a mix of all political persuasions. And they say that with continual terrorist threats like the recent Russian school attack, they will keep raising questions about Kerry's fitness to be Commander-in-Chief.

Warner said, "That's what we're facing, and I don't believe we can face an enemy this evil, being led by somebody whose judgment is so seriously flawed."

Please visit the "Stolen Honor" Web site.






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