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not quite accurate... Statement of Mr. John Kerry ...I am not here as John Kerry. I am here as one member of the group of 1,000 which is a small representation of a very much larger group of veterans in this country, and were it possible for all of them to sit at this table they would be here and have the same kind of testimony.... 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. We call this investigation the "Winter Soldier Investigation." The term "Winter Soldier" is a play on words of Thomas Paine in 1776 when he spoke of the Sunshine Patriot and summertime soldiers who deserted at Valley Forge because the going was rough. Sounds like he was talking about previous testimony of others. Nobody really questions that all of the things he talked about did actually happen (My Lai, agent orange, the tiger cages etc.) ....

http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/03/19/...adio/index.html hmmmm...Mission accomplished.

Yeah..we're having a bake sale for poor Halliburton this afternoon.

Actually was in Ukraine most of the time I was sentenced to the cybergulag. Nothing like a revolution and a russian winter to give you perspective. Fascinating country with some remarkable cities, Lviv, Kyiv, Yalta, Odessa. Loved Belarus (dicatatorship with a vengeance) and ;earned Russian (old blind dog...new tricks!) Finished the trip with a week in Istanbul...great city. Nice to be back. I should apologize for how wrong I was about the war. It was really a great idea to go in there, destroy all those wmd's and be welcomed so warmly by the people of Iraq. What a wonderful thing to have a peaceful democratic country. And to think how so many of you corrected me when I said the war might cost a second hundred million dollars! Too bad Bush can't run for a third term so I could vote for him as a great leader!

I always thought he was brilliant! Actually its me.

Boy he sure didn't show a lot of brilliance in the second half, did he? I'm wondering if he will last the season?

Tommy tommy tommy...I just pointed out a bill introduced by Senator Kerry. He did introduce it. You have a problem with the site? Fine. But he introduced the bill, responsive to a query by someone else. I in turn asked for a Bush example. Let's try and get along. I see you changed your name (obviously after laudable introspection). The issue was treatment of veterans. Others made it political. I was asked what Kerry did and pointed to some legislation he proposed. and Ken, do you think your comment added anything to the post?

http://vocusgr.vocus.com/GRSPACE2/webpub/r...XSL=ProfileBill Bush examples? I didn't raise this as a democrat republican issue but isn't it funny how quickly the issue got away from the crappy treatment vets are receiveing into a who shot john argument?

The draft pick had better be on the other side of 300 lbs and be ready to block or tackle.

Thanks for the hot-pocket, but I've already had breakfast. Kerry has done more for veterans than Bush or Cheney ever have.

I didn't know there WAS a number three. Every other Al Qaida they have killed was the number 2 man. I guess everyone in Al Qaeda is either number 2 or number 3

Wow I was mistaken about the bills this year. Nice passing to Lee Evans, we have Miami under control. I feel terrible as I had to catch a flight and didn't see the second half. I'm so optimistic about our chances. We must have mauled them in the second half! Gonna go get a paper now and read all about it.

I think you're giving a little too much credit as an X's and O's guy.

Plus ca change.. Thirty five years of watching viet vets die of cancers and their children with birth defects and deformities from Agent Orange has led me to be less than surprised at the treatment returning vets are getting after Iraq. I do volunteer work at the VA across the street and the stories I hear are really hair-raising. Not surprising that the folks who got us into this mess, who couldn't run the mess, who can't get out of this mess, can't deal with the results of this mess when it involves our veterans. The soldiers look good in uniform backing up our commander in chief at his speeches (does he ever talk in front of civilian audiences these days?) but let get them get a piece of metal in them or lose a leg and we forget all about them.

Oh...now THAT ought to solve our problems in Iraq.

Weren't the Green Berets a tacky John Wayne film?

Kind of explains why we haven't seen Scott McLellan at White House press conferences since he attacked Congressman Murtha. Wonder if they took the foot out of his mouth before they transplanted it?

I agree. I think he's the guy to go with for the rest of the season. He isn't going to improve sitting on the bench, he's giving it his all, and he improves every game. I think the kid is the major bright spot in a season that SO FAR has been disappointing. Five games to go...let's show the NFL some old fashioned Buffalo Bills football!!!

I don't think our country is in "demise". We are being misled at present by getting into a war we shouldn't be in and can't win. We've done it before in democratic and republican administrations in the Phillipines, in Vietnam and now in Iraq. We'll hang on, lots of American soldiers will continue to be killed and wounded until we realize that Irag will be run by Iraqis and we will get out...maybe sooner, maybe later. Hopefully we will learn for a while to not be engaged in foreign entanglements that we cannot win (thanks for the advice, George Washington.) I think our government needs an overhaul and a cleaning out...and the American people will get it eventually.

There are guys who can play football and stay off the police blotter. Jason Witten, Bryant Mckinney (not an ideal guy, but he can block), Jerome Shockey, and any number of people who are in some cases solid citizens (witten) problematic (McKinney) a little nutty (Shockey) who can make a difference. I don't advocating getting a TO or someone who is into felonies, but I'd have gladly kept Travis Henry and drafted a quality guard or tackle or better yet a great tight end as opposed to McGahee. I'd have kept Bledsoe and gotten another o lineman to protect bledso. Maybe we would be where Dallas is now. I'd spend less time worrying whether I'd let a player babysit my kids and more worrying about whether they can meet the needs of the team and play quality football.

I'm not sure the British were all that hot on our statement that became "When in the course of human events..." either. Friggin terrorists over there in the colonies.

I've seen it done. My brother was a prosecutor on organized crime in Buffalo in the 70's and indicted and convicted a number of corrupt public officials including a county legislator and an assistant DA in his own office (not to mention about 14 members of a certain group that supposedly did not exist and were the basis for a rather good series of Francis Ford Coppola films.) All it takes is the will to do it and some balls.

If there were a time for a real anti-corruption special prosecutor this is it. Congress the Senate, the Executive Branch, the Pentagon, the DOD and other agencies are rife with it. I'd love to see a prosecutor like Fitzpatrick or others given the green light. I'd also encourage use of the False Claims Act and the strengthening of other statutes protecting and rewarding government whistleblowers who bring this stuff to light. Hooray for the system that got the Duke. Let's go after the bribe givers and other legislators, Democrat and Republican, who solicit and accept bribes.

"rebuilding year?" What exactly were we "rebuilding from? Our last playoff season? We have had one hell of a lot of rebuilding years. This year is a fourth or fifth rebuilding year. So be it. We can "rebuild" till the cows come home until we build a good (or great) offensive and defensive line we will always be rebuilding. Parcells knows rebuilding and it isn't taking him five years to do it.

This exception gives permission to share information, it doesn't require the agencies to share. It won't solve the problem of them failing to share information. That could have been done with a real merger of CIA, NSA and FBI (and tightening up all of the other useless intelligence boutique agencies.)