[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 53 (Thursday, April 22, 2004)]
[House]
[Page H2299]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     JOHN KERRY'S ACCUSATIONS AGAINST AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN VIETNAM

  (Mr. HUNTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HUNTER. Mr. Speaker, when Americans watched U.S. troops take 
Baghdad through embedded media, they saw the American GI in his true 
character. They saw a GI who was compassionate, who was honorable, and 
who had great courage. In a way they saw also the GIs of Vietnam 
because in many cases those were the sons and grandsons and 
granddaughters of people who had fought in Vietnam, people who had the 
same character, the same honor, the same courage.

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  Yet we have had a person who is running for President, Senator John 
Kerry, describe those people as having murdered 200,000 people in 
Vietnam, being stoned on pot 24 hours a day, that is he said 60 to 80 
percent of them, and ravaging the country in a Genghis Khan-like 
fashion.
  I think Americans have a choice. If you feel that your son or 
daughter did those acts in Vietnam, if that was a true characteristic 
of American GI's in Vietnam if you served in Vietnam, if you think your 
husband conducted himself in that fashion, perhaps you want to vote for 
John Kerry. If you think that is a wild-eyed, nutty statement that is 
not an appropriate statement for somebody running for President of the 
United States, vote against John Kerry.

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