Mike Benge, a former civilian Vietnam POW, says
“John Kerry has fought harder for the Vietnamese communists than he fought against
them in Vietnam.”
This is the aspect of Kerry’s record that the major media don’t want to touch.
They are apparently intimidated by the medals he won while fighting for the U.S. side
against the communists. But there are two groups determined to get the media to pay
attention to what Kerry did after he returned from service. They want the public to know
that Kerry came back to America, accused his fellow soldiers of atrocities, marched with
those seeking a communist victory in Vietnam, and then ran a Senate committee that gave up
hope of rescuing American POW/MIAs that were left behind after the war.
The groups are Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry and Vietnamese Americans Against John
Kerry. The Vietnamese Americans are angry that Kerry promoted diplomatic relations with
Hanoi while failing to promote human rights in Vietnam. They are not alone. One 30-year
U.S. Army veteran wrote to us saying that he is “revolted” that the media are
failing to reveal Kerry’s dark “secrets.” He calls Kerry the “War
‘Hero’ Traitor” because of how he turned against the war when his fellow
soldiers were still fighting and dying on the battlefield.
POW/MIA researcher Roger Hall comments, “Now that it is fashionable for veterans to
promote their military status publicly—now that it is popular to be a Vietnam
Veteran—Senator Kerry touts his service and medals. But in the 1970s, when it became
fashionable to protest the war, he chose that issue to begin his political career and
appeared to throw his medals over the fence. Now he retrieves them to flash before our
eyes to distract us from his devious ways.” Hall acknowledges that Kerry performed
honorably in Vietnam. But he adds, “One brave moment does not outshine a devious and
duplicitous person.”
He points to something that has been documented by the Center for Public Integrity, which
is hardly a conservative group. It notes that Kerry ran a Senate committee “to
investigate the possibility that U.S. prisoners of war and soldiers designated missing in
action were still alive in Vietnam.”
But it notes that Kerry’s participation in the committee “became controversial
in December 1992 when Hanoi announced that it had awarded Colliers International, a
Boston-based real estate company, an exclusive deal to develop its commercial real estate
potentially worth billions.” Stuart Forbes, then the CEO of Colliers, is
Kerry’s cousin. For his part, Kerry decided there were no living American POW/MIA in Vietnam and the process of restoring diplomatic relations
with Vietnam proceeded. Kerry later visited Hanoi to meet with its Communist rulers.
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