HYPOCRISY: Republican reply criticizes Kerry for disapproving of torture!

From their moronic, filthy, lying, bullshit, pussy-ass cowardly pro-torture response letter (only a fucking hookum-spookum dillweed fist-fucker would put all caps in a written latter):

And that’s why we are so concerned about the comments you made AFTER you came home from Vietnam. You accused your fellow veterans of terrible atrocities – and, to this day, you have never apologized. Even last night, you claimed to be proud of your post-war condemnation of our actions.

http://georgewbush.com/KerryMediaCenter/Read.aspx?ID=3364

And yet, when the torture at Abu Ghraib was uncovered, Bush* had this to say:

Their treatment does not reflect the nature of the American people. That's not the way we do things in America. I didn't like it one bit.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/01/iraq/main615053.shtml

Isn't that the same as the condemnation Kerry had for abuses in Viet Nam during his 1971 Senate testimony?

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.

http://www.richmond.edu/~ebolt/history398/JohnKerryTestimony.html

They can't have it both ways. They are either for torture or against it. The Bush* campaign is flip-flopping on the issue of torture. They can't say that they are against it when the shocking photos first come out and people are unsettled, and now say they are pro-torture months later.

Q. Why won't you apologize to all vets for your anti-war activities?

A. I could not forget or abandon my brothers in arms in Vietnam to a senseless and futile war, having seen it with my own eyes and heard their anguish. I had to do all I could to bring them home to their families and to the country they served so gallanty with all odds against them. And I never forget them, not then and not now.

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Kerry, the Congressional Record, 1971:

"Mr. Kerry: Well, Senator, frankly it does not appeal to me if American men have to continue to die when they don't have to, particularly when it seems the Government of this country is more concerned with the legality of where men sleep than it is with the legality of where they drop bombs. (Applause.)...

...But at the present moment that is not going to happen, so we are talking about men continuing to die for nothing and I think there is a tremendous moral question here which the Congress of the United States is ignoring...

...But I think if we can talk in this legislative body about filibustering for porkbarrel programs, then we should start now to talk about filibustering for the saving of lives and of our country. (Applause.)

And this, Mr. Chairman, is what we are trying to convey."