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FBI documents say Kerry at meeting
Nick Confessore on this story (or CNN's version of it):
- But you have to look at this in context, and in context, what happened was this: Kerry was a moderate voice in an antiwar group, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, that was rapidly growing more radical. We also know from other accounts that, throughout his involvement, Kerry took pains to push the group more to the middle. Finally, at one meeting, some of the more radical voices discussed -- only half-seriously, if you believe CNN's account -- killing leaders who continued to support the war. At the end of that meeting, Kerry and some other moderates resigned. I think we can take it as a safe assumption that Kerry and his fellow moderates decided that VVAW had gone off the rails and wanted to wash their hands of any involvement in the group, which seems appropriate.
In other words, although the CNN account contains the unspoken assumption that -- as the RNC will shortly be putting it -- "Kerry was tied to a group that supported the assassination of American officials," if you read the story in toto and in sequence, it's obvious that group's increasing and finally untenable radicalism was precisely what drove Kerry away from it.
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