OK NW, try this

When Kerry said that these atrocities were occuring everyday all over Viet Nam (which is part of the quote I did hear) he is

1. Generalizing

2. Wrong, as I can testify from my own knowledge.

In addition:
3. I don't have to refute every instance of an atrocity, just the area I know about to prove him wrong.

4. I was not the only person to make my observation about the area I was in.

5. The Viet Nam war lasted over thirteen years which is something like 4,745 days. There is nothing, not even in the most fetid leftist mind that records 4,745 atrocities. Even then, some of the events he mentioned such as rape, while a evil crime, is not in any sense of the word, an atrocity.

Moreover in todays Washington Post, he continues his lies. To quote him exactly on page C4, fourth to last paragraph:

"I led the fight against Ronald Reagan and his illegal, unconstituional war in Centeral America. I blew the whistle on Oliver North and his private aid network. I took on Noriega and drugs and the CIA...

Lets parse those statements made some 14 hours ago.

1. Ed Meese the Attorney General delivered the news on North at Reagans direction, long before any Democrat any where made any comment at any time, period. Then they piled on.

2.The "unconstituional war" was in violation of the Boland Amendment, which forbade giving arms to rebels fighting a communist government. Years later, no one I know admits to actually voting for the Boland Amendment, and even Phil Boland, it's author, said it was not one of his "better moves". While Kery voted for it he was not a sponser nor its author.

3. Maybe Kerry forgot that he opposed the Panama incursion, which Bushes father played a major role, nor, while there was plenty of CIA involvement with the Pineapple, was there ever any proof that the CIA had anything to do with the drug trade. Several wackoid groups tried to sue to find an alleged connection, but a Democrat judge in Florida dismissed the case with prejudice as built on conjecture and spurious allegations.

Now pause for thought, this is the guy you want for President? You have to know that the tapes of this trirade in Wisconsin are going to be played and played and played again in the South. And these comments are easy to refute. And he did it to himself.

Yes he honorabley fought in Viet Nam and was entitiled to his opinion. But when he tars the rest of us with that opinion, he's got to go down on the strength of his own statements.