Early Kerry: Disband CIA, Put U.S. Troops Under U.N. Control
As he builds his lead with New Hampshire voters leading up to
Tuesday's Democratic primary, Sen. John Kerry is no doubt hoping that copies of
an old interview he gave during his first congressional race don't suddenly turn
up.
It was 1970 and the ambitious Massachusetts Democrat had just returned from
Vietnam, completely soured on America and its influence throughout the world.
Running against the Rev. Robert F. Drinan in Massachusetts' Third District,
Kerry granted an interview to the Harvard Crimson.
He told the college paper that it was time to "almost eliminate CIA
activity," according to excerpts obtained by the Boston Globe last June. What's
more, Kerry wanted U.S. troops "dispersed through the world only at the
directive of the United Nations."
After abandoning his challenge to Drinan, Kerry joined Vietnam Veterans
Against the War and testified before the Senate, where he slammed the soldiers
he served with as war criminals.
GIs in Vietnam, Kerry said, had "personally raped [Vietnamese civilians], cut
off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephone to human genitals
and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at
civilians, razed villages in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan."
Kerry later admitted he hadn't personally witnessed any of the atrocities he
claimed his fellow soldiers had committed.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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