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CHICAGO - As Sen. John Kerry's campaign gains momentum, conservative critics are attacking his anti-war activism in the years following his return from Vietnam, saying Kerry slandered veterans with his 1971 Senate testimony that alleged atrocities by U.S. soldiers.
More than any single figure, Kerry's opponents say, he was responsible for creating the image of American troops as rabid criminals.See the full content of this document
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Kerry's Vietnam Activism Haunts Campaign Today
"We feel that those people who protested against the war on moral grounds, that's an honorable thing - but Kerry went over the line," said Jerry Kiley, a spokesman for an ad hoc group of activists who call themselves Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry.
"He painted all Vietnam veterans as war criminals. We feel he's a traitor to the Vietnam veterans of this country who fought and died in a cause that they felt was just," Kiley ...See the full content of this document
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