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 From: patriot@americans.biz 
  
 Mr. N wrote: 
 On July 1, 1971, within days of Le Duc Tho's arrival, Madame Binh 
 advanced a new 7-Point Proposal to end the war. Central to this plan was 
 a cleverly crafted provision offering to set a date for the return of 
 U.S. prisoners of war in exchange for the Americans setting a date for 
 complete, unilateral military withdrawal from Vietnam. In other words, 
 America could have her POWs back only if we would agree we lost, 
 surrender, and set a date to leave. 
  
 About one year earlier, two young Americans had also come to Paris, 
 arguably for their honeymoon -- John Kerry, a young, clean-shaven Navy 
 war veteran, accompanied by his new wife, the former Julia Thorne, whose 
 lineage traced back to George Washington. 
  
 But honeymooning was not John Kerry's only purpose in traveling to 
 Paris. Kerry's presidential campaign has now acknowledged that he 
 "talked privately with a leading communist representative" there. 
  
 On April 22, 1971, as he testified before Senator Fulbright's Committee 
 on Foreign Relations, John Kerry mentioned that in Paris he had meetings 
 with "both sides" of the Paris Peace Talks. The strong likelihood is 
 that John Kerry also met with Le Duc Tho, or some other representative 
 of the North Vietnamese delegation, in addition to Madame Binh who was 
 in Paris representing the PRG. There is no reason to assume John Kerry 
 had any interest in meeting with representatives of the other two sides 
 in the Peace Talks -- the United States or South Vietnam. 
  
 Madame Binh's proposal was carefully crafted to send a strong emotional 
 message to the American home front; that the only barrier to having our 
 POWs returned was America's own unwillingness to set a date to withdraw 
 -- even if the proposed withdrawal amounted to a defeat. The 7-Point 
 Proposal directly challenged the South Vietnamese proposal to set a date 
 for a truce and a free election designed to reunify Vietnam. The PRG and 
 the Viet Cong clearly agreed with the Premier of Communist China, Cho 
 En-lai that complete withdrawal of American military forces from Vietnam 
 was the only precondition that would be discussed. 
  
 http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/staticpages/index. 
 php?page=20040421205043310 
  
  
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