Watch All Things To All Men Online Forbes' title='Watch All Things To All Men Online Forbes' />Complete John Kerry Testimony, 0. LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS RELATING TO THE WAR IN SOUTHEAST ASIA. Find the latest TV recaps, photos, videos and clips, news and more on MSN TV. Home to Much Digital Studios, Office Sessions, News, Contests and more. THURSDAY, APRIL 2. UNITED STATES SENATE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, Washington, D. C. The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 1. Room 4. 22. 1. New Senate Office Building, Senator J. W. Fulbright Chairman. Present Senators Fulbright, Symington, Pell, Aiken, Case, and Javits. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. OPENING STATEMENT. The committee is continuing this morning its hearings on proposals relating to the ending of the. Southeast Asia. This morning the committee will hear testimony from Mr. John Kerry and, if. These are men who have fought in this unfortunate war. Vietnam. I believe they deserve to be heard and listened to by the Congress and by the officials in the. You have a perspective that those in the Government. Nations policy do not always have and I am sure that your testimony today will be helpful. I would like to add simply on my own account that I regret very much the action of the Supreme Court in denying. Mall. Applause. I regret that. It seems to me to be but another instance of an insensitivity of our Government to the tragic. I want also to congratulate Mr. Kerry, you, and your associates upon. I think you. conducted yourselves in a most commendable manner throughout this. Whenever people gather there is always a tendency for some. I think you deserve much of the credit because I understand. I have joined with some of my colleagues, specifically Senator Hart. Government toward. I personally dont know of any group which would have both a. As you know, there has grown up in this town a. I dont know a better source than you and your associates. So we are very pleased to have you and your associates, Mr. Kerry. At the beginning if you would give to the reporter your f. Ull. name and a brief biography so that the record will show who you are. Senator JAVITS. Mr. Chairman, I was down there to the veterans. New York group and I would like to say. I am very proud of the deportment and general attitude of the group. I hope it continues. I have joined in the Hart resolution, too. As a. lawyer I hope you will find it possible to comply with the order even. I am unhappy about it. I think it is our. I welcome the fact that you came and. The CHAIRMAN. You may proceed, Mr. Kerry. STATEMENT OF JOHN KERRY, VIETNAM VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR. Mr. KERRY. Thank you very much, Senator Fulbright, Senator. Javits, Senator Symington, Senator Pell. I would like say for the. I am not here as John Kerry. I am here as one member of the group. I would simply like to speak in very general terms. I apologize if. my statement is general because I received notification yesterday you. I am afraid because of the injunction I was up. WINTER SOLDIER INVESTIGATION. I would like to talk, representing all those veterans, and say that. Detroit, we had an investigation at which over. Southeast Asia, not isolated incidents. It is impossible to describe to you exactly what did happen in. Detroit, the emotions in the room, the feelings of the men who were. Vietnam, but they did. They relived. the absolute horror of what this country, in a sense, made them do. They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off. Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and. South Vietnam in addition to. We call this investigation the Winter Soldier Investigation. The. Winter Soldier is a play on words of Thomas Paine in 1. Sunshine Patriot and summertime soldiers who. Valley Forge because the going was rough. We who have come here to Washington have come here because. We could come back to this. Vietnam, but we feel because of what threatens. FEELINGS OF MEN COMING BACK FROM VIETNAM. I would like to talk to you a little bit about what the result is of the. Vietnam. The country doesnt know it yet, but it has created a monster, a monster. With a sense of anger and a. As a veteran and one who feels this anger, I would like to talk about. We are angry because we feel we have been used in the worst fashion. In 1. 97. 0 at West Point, Vice President Agnew said some glamorize. Asian rice. paddies to preserve the freedom which most of those misfits abuse,. Vietnam. But for us,as boys in Asia whom the country was supposed to support. Which we can only draw. Hence the anger of some of the men who. Washington today. It is a distortion because we in no way. South Vietnam, because so many of those best men. Veterans Administration hospitals in this country which fly the flag. And we cannot. consider ourselves Americas best men when we are ashamed of and. Southeast Asia. In our opinion, and from our experience, there is nothing in South. Vietnam, nothing which could happen that realistically threatens the. United States of America. And to attempt to justify the loss of one. American life in Vietnam, Cambodia, or Laos by linking such loss to. We are probably much more angry than that and I dont want to go. I am outclassed here. FR-EE War Dogs Full Movie. I know. that all of you talk about every possible alternative of getting out of. Vietnam. We understand that. We know you have considered the seriousness. I am not going to try to. I want to relate to you the feeling that many of the. Vietnam and about the. WHAT WAS FOUND AND LEARNED IN VIETNAM. We found that not only was it a civil war, an effort by a people who. Vietnamese whom we had. We found most people didnt even know the difference between communism. They only wanted to work in rice paddies without. They wanted everything. United States of America, to leave them alone in peace, and they. With whichever military force. Vietcong, North Vietnamese, or. We found also that all too often American men were dying in those. We saw first hand. American taxes was used for a corrupt dictatorial. We saw that many people in this country had a one sided idea. We saw Vietnam ravaged equally by American bombs. Vietcong. terrorism, and yet we listened while this country tried to blame all of. Vietcong. We rationalized destroying villages in order to save them. We saw. Ammerica lose her sense of morality as she accepted very coolly a My Lai. American soldiers who hand out. We learned the meaning of free fire zones, shooting anything that. America placed a cheapness on the lives. We watched the U. S. falsification of body counts, in fact the glorification. We listened while month after month we were told. We fought using weapons. We fought using weapons against those people which I do not believe. European. theater, or let us say a non third world people theater, and so we. North. Vietnamese because we watched pride allow the most unimportant of. American. bodies were lost to prove that point. And so there were Hamburger. Hills and Khe Sanhs and Hill 8. Fire Base 6s and so many others. Now we are told that the men who fought there must watch quietly. American lives are lost so that we can exercise the incredible. Vietnamizing the Vietnamese. Each day Applause. The CHAIRMAN. I hope you wont interrupt. He is making a very. Let him proceed. Mr. KERRY. Each day to facilitate the process by which the United. States washes her hands of Vietnam someone has to give up his life. United States doesnt have to admit something that the. Someone has to die so that President Nixon wont be, and these. President to lose a war. We are asking Americans to think about that because how do you. Vietnam How do you ask a. But we are trying to. Presidents last speech to the people of this. But the issue, gentlemen,the issue is communism, and the question is whether. Communists or whether or not we will. But the point is they are not a free people now under us. They are. not a free people, and we cannot fight communism all over the World. I think we should have learned that lesson by now. RETURNING VETERANS ARE NOT REALLY WANTED. But the problem of veterans goes beyond this personal problem. Uncle Sam and the picture says I want you. And a young man. That is fine. I am going to serve. And he goes to Vietnam and he shoots and he kills. VA. Administration 1. All the Kings Men 2. Edit. In the 5. 0s, in Louisiana, the smart populist, manipulative and wolf hick Willie Stark is elected governor with the support of the lower social classes. He joins a team composed of his bodyguard and friend Sugar Boy the journalist from an aristocratic family Jack Burden the lobbyist Tiny Duffy and his mistress Sadie Burke, to face the opposition of the upper classes. 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