Hundreds of U.S. Army veterans and Vietnamese escapees demonstrated Saturday outside John Kerry's campaign headquarters in Manhattan to protest his betrayal of them.
"Waving American and South Vietnamese flags and singing the U.S. national anthem, they held up signs saying 'Hanoi John,' and 'Kerry Betrayed Vietnam Vets'," Reuters reported.
It claimed there were only 200 protesters, but New York Newsday reported twice that number.
"We won't sit by and let the American people think that we are going to stand by somebody who stabbed us in the back," said Jerry Kiley, a veteran and one of the protest's organizers.
"He betrayed us. He stabbed us in the back. We will never allow him to be our commander-in-chief. Ever!" Kiley exclaimed to the crowd on Park Avenue.
"Veteran after veteran passionately lambasted Kerry," Newsday reported.
"Equally fervent in their disdain for Kerry were the Vietnamese-Americans, who hold the senator from Massachusetts responsible for thrice blocking a bill in 2001 and 2002 that would have tied U.S. aid to Vietnam to that country's human rights record."
Nam Pham, 48, a banker from Boston who is working with the Massachusetts Human Rights Commission for Vietnam, observed: "Sen. John Kerry has been working with the dictatorship in Vietnam. He lost the moral authority to lead the free world."
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