The New York Times - 4/71. - “U.S. Veterans of Vietnam War Rally on Wall Street for Peace” - by Michael T. Kaufman.

A Veteran of the war in Vietnam who has three Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star and a Silver Star told a noontime Wall Street rally yesterday, “We are all of us in this country guilty for having allowed the war to go on.” The speaker, John Kerry of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, addressed the crowd from a truck in front of the New York Stock Exchange. It was at about the same spot that nine months ago student antiwar protestors were jeered by Wall Street workers and were beaten by construction workers. There was no fighting and no heated arguments yesterday as lunchtime strollers stopped to listen. Listeners came and went, at no time during the hour-and-a-half rally, did the crowd seem to number more than about 100.

Mr. Kerry, now a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve, contrasted the Army’s sentencing of First Lieut. William L. Calley Jr. with what he said was a wider collective responsibility for the war. “Guilty as Lieutenant Calley may have been of the actual act of murder,” he said, “the verdict does not single out the real criminal. Those of us who have served in Vietnam know that the real guilty party is the United States of America.”


(note that the above is treason if done while in the service! )

This next part, taken from the same article as above, proves, once again, Kerry's neat little wiggle of blaming Bush for what he, himself, does is a conscious decision.


The United States, he said, “finds some men guilty and some men innocent of the very same charges” and tries to “ease its conscience by scapegoating one man.”

OR

John Kerry, “finds some men guilty and some men innocent of the very same charges” and tries to “ease its conscience by scapegoating one man.”