[lbo-talk] NS agreement

[Mark Bennett]

One of the first hints that Hitchens wasn't exactly a leftist that I, at
least, picked up on was his carefree attitude about Kerry during the war
crime scandal.  Basically, Ol' Hitch said "Kerry seems like a swell guy to
me."  It was pretty sickening stuff from a guy flogging a book arguing for
the prosecution Kissinger for alleged war crimes in South-East Asia.

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:


>
> On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, Michael Smith wrote:
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>  This guy is a university president? Aren't they supposed to be, like,
>> literate?
>>
>> What's the back story here? Why is this man in the job he's in?
>>
>
>
>
> Kerrey got grief over the war criminal thing when he was first hired.  A
> New York Times reporter wrote an article on it; two guys in his squad went
> on record flatly deny his long-accepted lies that he stayed outside the
> hooch while the massacre was going on; and he admitted more than he had in
> the past.  But that all got squelched and forgotten by 9/11, which happened
> only a few months later.
>
>
> Michael
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