Democratic Underground - Did Kerry really say this in 1992? If so, he's a hypocrite.

A headline in the Des Moines (Iowa) Register of August 14th read “Veteran Kerry Touts His War Experience.” Of course the story was about Senator John F. Kerry, the Vietnam veteran who wants to be the Democrat Party¹s presidential candidate. He returned from the war to lead protests, denigrate our flag, mock anticommunists, and call his fellow veterans “criminals” before a congressional committee. He now reminds us, incessantly, that he served in Vietnam. It wasn’t always that way. John DiStaso of the Manchester (New Hampshire) Union Leader newspaper points out that 11 years ago, during the 1992 New Hampshire primaries, Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, a fellow Democrat, had contrasted his distinguished war record with that of the draft-dodging Bill Clinton. On February 27th, 1992, John Kerry then attacked his fellow veteran on the Senate floor. Kerry lamented that the subject of Vietnam service had been ‘inserted into the campaign.’ John Kerry told his fellow senators, ‘What saddens me most is that Democrats, above all those who shared the agonies of that generation, should now be refighting the many conflicts of Vietnam in order to win the current political conflict of a Presidential primary...We do not need to divide America over who served and how...’

This is written by an obvious Republican, but if Kerry really did say this stuff he is a hypocrite.

http://www.aim.org/publications/guest_columns/fielder/2003/aug25.html

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