Doug R: the part that is missing from the "Swifties for Bush" ad is the part of Kerry's testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee where he said "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.... [insert atrocity stories here]". He never said that he personally participated in any of these things, that he witnessed them, or even that he believed that they were true. He was passing on information provided to him.

The full test of his 1971 statement is here.