He was sleepwalking. Can't be held accountable for that.

I think the Kerry campaign would dispute the North Vietnamese as being enemies of the USA. After all, they would have built a utopia already if the USA hadn't bombed them and poisoned the political attitudes in the South.

The anti-Bush crowd already was talking about "McCarthyism" last week. They'll be screamingit now, while the networks dust off the old kinescopes of Joseph Welch's "Have you no decency, sir?" line in order to equate Kerry with the Army officer and the staff lawyer who were the subject of that day's hearing.

That won't have anything to do with the question, which is not about Kerry's political affiliation in 1971, it's what a man who is still a military reservist is doing holding talks with represenatives of a hostile nation in a foreign country. (Of course, if the senator tries to use the "shame" line on his own, he will inevitably misname Joseph Welch as Joseph Wilson and blow the whole tactic out of the water by himself).

Treason doth n~~~~ prosper.
What's the reason?
Why if it prosper,
None dare call it treason.

As with all of the swift boat ads/arguments it will become their word vs Kerry's and whether you believe it or not will depend on if you believe Kerry. But as OJ notes if Kerry has the facts to easily dispel this but doesn't you have to believe it is true.
Related note - I remember reading somewhere that Kerry's picture is hanging in the North Vietnam history musuem with a glowing writeup by the North Vietnamese on how he helped win the war. Is this true? If so I would think that would be a devastating ad.

Last I saw, Kerry admits this, although he tends to present it as meeting with representatives of north and south Vietnam, by which he means the People's Republic and the Viet Cong.

And, by the way:

Kansas City, Kansas City here I come.

I am surprised that no one has mentioned that Kerry met the Communists in Paris DURING HIS HONEYMOON! Even then politics was more important than his family.

"Hey, honey lets go to Paris for our honeymoon. I need to talk to some commies there anyway."

Having been to Paris on several occasions I can tell you that you can't help but talk to a commie. The place is overrun with them. Generally there on strike or protesting one thing or another, but at some point you will trip over one. Hell, one of their Metro stations is even named Stalingrad. Isn't it ironic that the Russians had the good sense to purge that vile name and the French didn't?

Grrrr... There=They're

The very fact that Kerry was able to break the law as he pleased and not end up in Levenworth shows just how morally broke our government apparently at that time.

But, now that same self-admitted war criminal, who disregarded the laws of the land and held unauthorised and illegal secret meetings with the North Vietnamese leaders, instead of fighting for his freedom in a courtroom, he's been nominated by his same morally bankrupt democratic party, to run for president of the United States.

If George Bush had done one of the mulitply things Kerry had done, the democratic party would've never let the republicans nominate him for any office, much less the POTUS.

We have to correct the history about the Vietnam Veterans service, because most of the 3 million who served did so honorably and courageously, never taking part in the hideous crimes Kerry accused them of committing.

John Kerry isn't worthy of being a snake dancer, much less the POTUS. We must demand that whoever we nominate is of a finer character than Jahn Fanda Kerry.

Kerry's picture in Hanoi (taken in 1991, with some functionary of their govt.) can be found on Google - elapsed time about 1 sec. Whether his display shows other pictures or not, I don't know, but the plaque makes for interesting reading. I still can't believe he didn't send someone to remove it back around the fall of 2002.

He's probably proud of it in his world view Jim.

I believe Kerry's picture is in there because of his efforts to normalize relations with Vietnam. Either way, he screwed vets and the US so he should be ashamed of the 'honor'.