my open letter to John F. Kerry

my open letter to John F. Kerry

I sent a letter to John Kerry, through his website. Here it is:

Senator Kerry: You have a choice. You can either sign the form 180 today and put an end to the SBVT accusations about your medals and conduct in Vietnam, or you can continue to allow their charges to gain credibility.

That assumes, of course, that your military records will back up your version of events. I will be looking especially for all the after-action reports describing the "cutting off ears, cutting off heads" and so on that you testified to in the early 70s.

I assume that you included these incidents in your after action reports. If you did not, or indicate that you made no effort whatever to put a stop to the illegal actions you testified about (you were an officer, and there are pictures of you being armed with an M16, therefore you would have been in a position to stop these actions), then I refer you to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, under which you face life imprisonment for dereliction of duty.

Note that under the UCMJ (article 104) you also face execution for negotiating with the north Vietnamese.

I don't expect a response (I am a Canadian, so I can't vote either for or against Kerry). However, a handful of my readers are Americans, and their words would carry more weight with the Kerry campaign than mine. Therefore I urge that handful to ask Kerry some questions of their own, at the link posted above.