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Kerry’s former colleagues today released their statement :
“I do not believe John Kerry is fit to be commander in chief of the U.S. armed forces,” said retired Rear Adm. Roy Hoffmann, chairman of the organization. “This is not a political issue. It is a matter of honesty.”
But, unfortunately, in terms of opposing Kerry’s presidential aspirations, the veterans shot themselves in the foot:
“Second, we resent very deeply the false war crimes charges he made coming back from Vietnam. ... We think that those have cast aspersion on those living and dead.
“We think he knew he was lying when he made them. We think they are unsupportable. We intend to bring the truth about that to the American people. Third, we believe that based on our experience with him, he is totally unfit to be commander in chief.”
Now of course people will say that their comments about Kerry’s fitness to be commander in chief, are biased by their views on the allegations Kerry made about the conduct of our soldiers in Vietnam.
In a letter to Kerry signed by more than 200 Swift boats veterans, they wrote, “It is our collective judgment that, upon your return from Vietnam, you grossly and knowingly distorted the conduct of the American soldiers, Marines, sailors and airmen of that war (including a betrayal of many of us, without regard for the danger your actions caused us).
Their statement would have been much more powerful without bringing that issue into the discussion. On the plus side, in debunking those things Kerry said about our Vietnam vets, more power to them. Kerry himself has had to disavow those comments:
Kerry has admitted a poor choice of words in his testimony before Congress in 1971 but says he served with honor in the war.
