Reply #14: What are Fox-esque lies? [View All]

[seventhson]

The kid WAS wounded by another of his men. He was DOWN. He might even have been DEAD for all we know. Or unconcious when Kerry gave him a fatal bullet. Only Kerry really knows. He got the silver star for that. Some have said it may have been a war crime.

Who knows whether the old man was really a "human shield" or cover?

That could well be spin to justify a random killing of a civilian. Kerry himself apparently wrote that it was wrong or punishable and then tried to spin THAT as a "joke" (I need to reread that part).

Anyway -- I posted this so that people could read and judge for themselves and ARGUE or denate the merits of the Kerry Vietnamn story.

I BELIEVE that Kerry may very well have been ignoble there.

The war itself was immoral and unjust. But he volunteered for it. Whether his acts were crimes or heroism is in the eyes of the beholders.

But - as I said -- I reserve judgment on that.

The yewitness accounts (and there are several) may not be the whole story of all these iisues. I meant the eyewitnesses to the purple hearts and more detail on the killing of the wounded teenager in a loincloth.