Hanoi directed Kerry
The other big story of today is this:
bq. the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese delegations to the Paris peace talks that year were used as the communications link to direct the activities of Kerry and other antiwar activists who attended.
bq. Kerry insists he attended the talks only because he happened to be in France on his honeymoon and maintains he met with both sides. But previously revealed records indicate the future senator made two, and possibly three, trips to Paris to meet with Viet Cong leader Madame Nguyen Thi Binh to promote her plan's demand for U.S. surrender.
Emperor Mischa at The
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler asks:
bq. We wonder if Hanoi will extend political asylum to their star player?
The Big Trunk at
PowerLine:
bq. Thomas Lipscomb is an old Timesman who puts his former employer to shame. Lipscomb's latest report is of interest as always. Today the New York Sun carries Lipscomb's "
Hanoi approved of role played by anti-war vets."
Lipscomb has this to say:
bq.
Hanoi Approved of Role Played By Anti-War Vets
The communist regime in Hanoi monitored closely and looked favorably upon the activities of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War during the period Senator Kerry served most actively as the group's spokesman and a member of its executive committee, two captured Viet Cong documents suggest.
bq. The documents - one dubbed a "circular" and the other a "directive" - were captured in 1971 and are part of a trove of material from the war currently stored at the Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech University at Lubbock. Originally organized by Douglas Pike, a major scholar who is now deceased, the archive contains more than 20 million documents. Many are available online at the Virtual Vietnam Archive and, as the election has heated up, have been the focus of a scramble for insights into Mr. Kerry's anti-war activities. The Circular and the Directive are listed as items numbered 2150901039b and 2150901041 respectively. Their authenticity was confirmed by Stephen Maxner, archivist at the Vietnam Archive.
Charles at
LGF links to
The Winter Soldier website:
bq.
John Kerry and the VVAW: Hanoi's American Puppets?
Newly discovered documents link Vietnam Veterans Against the War to Vietnamese communists
bq. Two recently discovered documents captured from the Vietnamese communists during the Vietnam War strongly support the contention that a close link existed between the Hanoi regime and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) while John Kerry served as the group's leading national spokesman.
The Winter Soldier has copies of these documents available for viewing on their website (and no, they were not written with Microsoft Word).
Meanwhile at
Wizbang, Kevin is linking to
Art Morre's report in WorldNet Daily:
bq. The first documentary evidence that Vietnamese communists were directly steering John Kerry's antiwar group Vietnam Veterans Against the War has been discovered in a U.S. archive, according to a researcher who spoke with WorldNetDaily.
bq. One freshly unearthed document, captured by the U.S. from Vietnamese communists in 1971 and later translated, indicates the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese delegations to the Paris peace talks that year were used as the communications link to direct the activities of Kerry and other antiwar activists who attended.
Kevin at Wizbang also provides the test and images from the Winter Soldier website in their entirety since the Winter Soldier website is being swamped with traffic as this story gains traction.
This is like watching a train-wreck in slow motion -- what was the Democratic Party thinking when they pushed Kerry as their candidate...
Posted by DaveH at October 26, 2004 11:42 AM