* Testified to the US Senate that practically all Viet Vets were 'war criminals'.

That's strong, AND many people participated in what were war crimes. Dumping Agent Orange on civilians, for instance. Dumping Agent Orange, a WMD, on rice paddies, killing food supplies is another.

In firefights people got shot regardless of status. The Commandant of the Marine Corp condoned this, saying that every dead Vietnamese was a badguy by definition, and they went into his body count.

The people aren't to blame, it's the system, the American system in this case. And Kerry was more right than wrong.

Sadly, the same American system is doing the same thing to American troops and foreigners again, in a land which wasn't a threat and is half a world away. And conservatives wonder why we are hated. (If it was to get rid of Saddam, well, he's gone. Can't use that any more.)