The
North Vietnamese general in charge of the military
campaign that finally drove the U.S. out of South
Vietnam in 1975 credited a group led by Democratic
presidential front-runner John Kerry with helping him
achieve victory.
In his 1985 memoir about the war, Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap
wrote that if it weren't for organizations like Kerry's
Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Hanoi would have
surrendered to the U.S. - according to Fox News Channel
war historian Oliver North.
That's why, he predicted on Tuesday, the Vietnam War
issue "is going to blow up in Kerry's face."
"People are going to remember Gen. Giap saying if it
weren't for these guys [Kerry's group], we would have
lost," North told radio host Sean Hannity.
"The Vietnam Veterans Against the War encouraged
people to desert, encouraged people to mutiny - some
used what they wrote to justify fragging officers,"
noted the former Marine lieutenant colonel, who earned
two purple hearts in Vietnam.
"John Kerry has blood of American soldiers on his
hands," North said.
As a key VVAW leader, organizer and spokesman, Kerry
marched in demonstrations where there was a clear
presence and "abundance of Vietcong flags, clenched
fists raised in the air, and placards plainly bearing
legends in support of China, Cuba, the USSR, North Korea
and the Hanoi government."
Kerry was a vocal supporter of the "People's Peace
Treaty," a supposed "people's" declaration to end the
war, reportedly drawn up in communist East Germany. It
included nine points, all of which were taken from Viet
Cong (Vietnamese Communist) peace proposals at the Paris
Peace Talks as conditions for a United States retreat
from the Vietnam War.
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