20070912 Comparing MoveOn.org’s NYTimes ad to ads about Sen. John Kerry in 2004

Comparing MoveOn.org’s NYTimes ad to ads about Sen. John Kerry in 2004

September 12^th, 2007

A number of folks have vigorously defended The General Petraeus New York Times Ad by regurgitating the Swift Boat Veterans’ ads about 2004 presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry.

To be certain, both Senator Kerry and General Petraeus testified in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

But here is where the wheels come off the cart. As so eloquently memorialized by Col. Oliver North on August 27^th, 2004, in a column titled, “Bring it in John,” he wrote:

On April 22, 1971, under oath, you told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that you had knowledge that American troops "had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the country side of South Vietnam." And you admitted on television that "yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed."

And for good measure you stated, "(America is) more guilty than any other body, of violations of (the) Geneva Conventions ... the torture of prisoners, the killing of prisoners."

In a compare and contrast of General Petraeus and Sen. Kerry, those of us who know history and witnessed the events of April 22, 1971 are quite surprised that liberals dare even mention the name Sen. Kerry in the same paragraph with General Petraeus.

References and related:

20040827 “Bring it on John” by Oliver North

20070912 Hatch on Move On by Don Surber

20070910 The General Petraeus New York Times Ad

20070730 NYTimes Op-Ed: A War We Just Might Win by O’Hanlon and Pollack

20070910 Petraeus Doesn’t Cook the Books Just the facts by Michael O’Hanlon