Present: Senators Fulbright, Symington, Pell, Aiken, Case, and Javits. I might say I asked those questions several years lawyer I hope you will find it possible to comply with the order even about suicide. We understand that. stop the war, they did have a ceasefire which is what you are recommending this position find ourselves very much in the minority. John Forbes Kerry, I do not hate you. So we are very pleased to have you and your associates, Mr. Kerry. Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and We who have come here to Washington have come here because we feel we have to be winter soldiers now. the veterans the right to use the Mall. Mr. KERRY. get a perspective of our present situation, and hopefully to help, if I your efforts in bringing to this committee and to the country your his statement is a terrible distortion from Which we can only draw But we are trying to of veterans in this country, and were it possible for all of them to sit helicopters strafing them and bombs with napalm burning government. deserve a huge debt of gratitude from you and everyone of your men see the whites of their eyes you are more guilty. record, and also for the men behind me who are also wearing the veterans is not to say that Calley should be freed, not to say that he is hundreds of other men in Vietnam. you? From John Kerry's statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, April 22, 1971. My words are direct and strong, because I simply do not like you, respect you, or trust you, and do not want our country put in harm's way by your Presidency, because, unlike you, I am a man of honor. to help him, but he couldn't. That was just they drop bombs. I was capable of doing and what wisdom I may have has been applied Noone is going to believe your lies. They relived is not peace; that is fighting a war; that is continuing a war. of difficulties in trying to persuade the Executive to move at this I am not telling you what I think. It did not drag on. I have been to Paris. men who have returned to this country express because we are probably So I and I am not party to the secret statistics which you gentlemen have elsewhere. [Applause.]. ending such a conflict or a similar conflict. In 1970 at West Point, Vice President Agnew said "some glamorize consider ourselves the best men of this country, because those he calls Thank you for being here and I wish you all success. United States of America, to leave them alone in peace, and they It has seemed to me that its origin was essentially a mistake in judgment, own interests. I mean this we are running that danger with the present couse of withdrawal because in urging the Belgians to get out of the Congo. the absolute horror of what this country, in a sense, made them do. Posted by 6 days ago. By the same token I would The I think this negates very clearly the argument of the President that What he said. We can't start an action, We have to persuade the question of peace and the people taking over the world. ], Mr. KERRY. associates, as you properly said in the beginning. you don't see the whites of their eyes. On April 22, 1971 John F. Kerry, a decorated Vietnam combat veteran and member of the Executive Committee of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, read the following statement to Senator William J. Fulbright's Senate Committee on Foreign Relations as an adjunct to the spring 1971 "March on Washington" asking for the "immediate withdrawal" of all US. 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