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	Bob Kerrey - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Joseph Robert Kerrey (born August 27, 1943) was a U.S. Senator from Nebraska (1989–2001) and a Democrat.
		Kerrey was born in Lincoln, Nebraska and attended the local public schools before graduating from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1966.
		Kerrey is a member of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (popularly known as the "9/11 Commission"), where he has accused persons like Madeleine Albright, William Cohen, and Donald Rumsfeld of pursuing US interests with insufficient aggression.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/J._Robert_Kerrey (917 words)

	Bob Kerrey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joseph Robert Kerrey (born August 27, 1943) was Governor of Nebraska from 1983 to 1987, and a U.S. Senator from Nebraska (1989–2001) and a Democrat.
		Kerrey was born in Lincoln, Nebraska and attended the local public schools before graduating from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1966.
		Kerrey is a member of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (popularly known as the "9/11 Commission"), where he has accused persons like Madeleine Albright, William Cohen, and Donald Rumsfeld of pursuing US interests with insufficient aggression.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bob_Kerrey (1034 words)

	Bob Kerrey Summary
		Joseph Robert "Bob" Kerrey (born August 27, 1943) was the Democratic Governor of Nebraska from 1983 to 1987, and a U.S. Senator from Nebraska (1989–2001).
		Kerrey was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, attended Lincoln Northeast High School, and went on to graduate from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1966 with a degree in pharmacy.
		Kerrey's record on environmental issues and taxation was more moderate, and he was a strong supporter of free trade and limiting the size of the federal government.
	www.bookrags.com /Bob_Kerrey (2553 words)

	Robert Kerrey and the bloody legacy of Vietnam
		Former US Senator Robert Kerrey, newly inaugurated as the president of the New School University, one of the most prestigious positions in American academia, has admitted participating in a death squad attack on a Vietnamese village 32 years ago, in which he and six soldiers under his command killed 21 women, children and elderly men.
		Kerrey's seven-man unit of Navy SEALS entered Thanh Phong for the purpose of murdering the mayor of the village, who was targeted by the US command because he was believed to be an active supporter of the National Liberation Front (“Viet Cong”).
		Kerrey subsequently received a Bronze Star for his conduct in Thanh Phong—a month before a second raid in which he was severely wounded, losing part of his leg, and eventually receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/may2001/kerr-m04.shtml (2769 words)

	Kerrey Mayoral Talk Rouses Skeptics
		Kerrey confirmed that the former senator is contemplating a mayoral bid, political consultants were skeptical about the feasibility of a Kerrey campaign and questioned the seriousness of Mr.
		Kerrey moved to New York in 2001 when he assumed the New School’s presidency, his newcomer status is not the least of the obstacles to a credible candidacy.
		Robert Kerrey, president of New School University and a former U.S. senator from Nebraska, seen in June 2004 during the 9/11 commission hearings, is considering a run for mayor.
	daily.nysun.com /Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2005/04/18&ID=Ar00300 (946 words)

	Bob Kerrey - dKosopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Joseph Robert "Bob" Kerrey (born August 27, 1943) was Governor of Nebraska from 1983 to 1987 and a Democratic U.S. Senator from 1989 until 2001.
		Kerrey served as a U.S. Navy SEAL from 1966-1969, losing the lower part of one leg in the Vietnam war.
		Kerrey is now president of the New School University in New York City and was for a short while considered a possible candidate for NYC Mayor in 2005.
	www.dkosopedia.com /index.php?title=Bob_Kerrey&printable=yes (203 words)

	9-11 Research
		Despite evidence that Senator Robert Kerrey was involved in the commission of war crimes in the Vietnam war, he was appointed to the Official Commission to Investigate the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks.
		Kerrey is thought to have directly participated in at least the killing of the elderly man, holding him down with his knee while another member of his team slit his throat.
		Kerrey, who was seeking the nomination of the Democratic Party for the 2000 presidential race, withdrew himself as a candidate, prompting Newsweek to spike the story.
	911research.wtc7.net /post911/commission/kerrey.html (393 words)

	J. ROBERT KERREY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Robert Kerrey is President of New School University in New York City.
		In 1982, Robert Kerrey was elected Governor of Nebraska.
		Senator Kerrey is perhaps best known for his persistent eadership in reforming Medicare and health care, and remains committed to universal health care eligibility for all Americans.
	pages.stern.nyu.edu /~gdaly/RKerrey.html (549 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Kerrey is a former member of the elite Navy SEAL Team, the Navy's version of the Green Berets, and is a highly decorated Vietnam veteran.
		Kerrey was born on August 27, 1943, attended Lincoln Public Schools, and is a graduate of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
		Kerrey is a self-made businessman who, upon returning from the war and starting from scratch in 1972, built a chain of highly successful restaurants and health clubs.
	www.nadn.navy.mil /Ethics/Programs/Lectureseries/Kerrey.htm (4629 words)

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		Kerrey, 62, was appointed the seventh president of New School University in January 2001 after retiring from the Senate.
		Kerrey recently served on the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, an independent bipartisan commission created in late 2002 by Congress and President George W. Bush, to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
		Kerrey served on the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare and was a member of the Senate Finance, Appropriations and Agriculture committees.
	www.tenethealth.com /TenetHealth/OurCompany/J.+Robert+Kerrey.htm (295 words)

	USATODAY.com - Kerrey expresses guilt, remorse; questions remain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Kerrey said he and his six-member squad began shooting only after they were shot at in a free-fire zone — an area cleared of civilians by the U.S. military.
		Kerrey had remained silent on the incident until recently, when former squad member Gerhard Klann told "60 Minutes II" and The New York Times that Vietnamese civilians were herded into a group and massacred.
		Kerrey said he does not know why his former colleague claims the civilians were gathered together and shot.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2001-04-26-kerrey-raid.htm (972 words)

	The case of Robert Kerrey: war crimes and their supporters in Vietnam and Afghanistan
		Kerrey, the commander of a Navy SEALS unit at the time, was accused of responsibility in the killing of 21 women, children and elderly men.
		Kerrey responded evasively, vaguely acknowledging wrongdoing, at the same time pleading memory lapses, and also defending US aims in Vietnam and contemptuously rejecting any call for an investigation of the incident.
		Robert Kerrey and the bloody legacy of Vietnam
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/jan2002/kerr-j04.shtml (973 words)

	Online NewsHour: Satellite Shutter Control -- September 30, 1999
		ROBERT KERREY: We are having a meeting with General King to try to get that changed in the next couple of days.
		ROBERT KERREY: Well, we're having a meeting with General King; we actually initiated a program called Imaging for Citizens that I had hoped would make these five-meter images more available to the public and quicker, but Barbara's exactly right; they've been withheld and we're trying to get that changed.
		ROBERT KERREY: Well, it's a very interesting provision, especially since Israel is going to be launching commercial satellites, going to be selling the very same thing; we've got a provision that doesn't allow us to sell them, and they'll be selling them.
	www.pbs.org /search/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/july-dec99/shutter_9-30.html (1563 words)

	Sample Chapter The Education of Lieutenant Kerrey -- GregoryVistica.com
		Kerrey watched his commander-in-chief work his way towards him, smiling and shaking hands with some of the bravest veterans of Vietnam--if not all of American history.
		Kerrey had contemplated using his White House visit to take a dramatic public stand against the war.
		His defiance would be seen as a shameful act of insubordination, but Kerrey was angry, confused and still emotionally and physically fragile from his wounds.
	www.gregoryvistica.com /kerreySample.htm (448 words)

	Clinton criticizes Democrats for independent counsel calls
		Robert Kerrey, D-Neb., and Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., who are leaders of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which raises money for party candidates.
		Kerrey told reporters that Clinton was upset with statements some Democrats had made endorsing the call for an independent counsel.
		Kerrey said Clinton emphasized that by law, an independent counsel is supposed to be appointed for specific legal reasons.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/030197/clinton.htm (580 words)

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		Former Senator Robert Kerrey has admitted that as leader of a Navy Seal unit he participated in the murder of civilians in Vietnam.
		As the Times article developed, Kerrey and his friends first began to commiserate with one another about the tough times they had, the strain on their consciences, the difficulty they had in living with dirty secrets, how their reputations of valor may be imperfect.
		However, for purposes of clarity, it is worthwhile to look back on what Robert Kerrey wrote after he returned from Vietnam, more than twelve years ago, perhaps when his recollections were sharper, less opportunistically censored by the polish of electoral success.
	www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/2001-Asia/Robert_Kerrey:_War_Criminal (864 words)

	J. Robert Kerrey, USN Medal of Honor Receipient
		Acting in response to reliable intelligence, Lieutenant (JG) Kerrey lead his SEAL Team on a mission to capture important members of the enemy's area political cadre known to be located on an island in the bay of Nha Trang.
		Just as they neared the end of their descent, intense enemy fire was directed at them, and Lieutenant (JG) Kerrey received massive injuries from a grenade which exploded at his feet and threw him backward onto the jagged rocks.
		Lieutenant (JG) Kerrey's courageous and inspiring leadership, valiant fighting spirit, and tenacious devotion to duty in the face of almost overwhelming opposition, sustain and enhance the finest traditions of the United States Naval Service.
	www.somf.org /moh/kerrey_joseph_N.htm (366 words)

	Military.com Content (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Kerrey's leg was shattered by a grenade that threw him backwards.
		His Medal of Honor citation records what happened next: "Although bleeding profusely and suffering great pain, [Kerrey] displayed outstanding courage and presence of mind in immediately directing his element's fire into the enemy camp." Kerrey was barely conscious, but managed to maintain "calm, superlative" control as he directed the evacuation of all his men.
		Robert Novak of the National Review notes that, in 1997, the senator wore his Medal of Honor to an inauguration party.
	www.military.com /Content/MoreContent1?file=vn_kerry (411 words)

	Summary Chapter The Education of Lieutenant Kerrey -- GregoryVistica.com
		Kerrey went on to do heroic things in Vietnam and later as a politician.
		From his rural boyhood in Nebraska, to his gut wrenching Navy SEAL training, to his aborted run for President, Kerrey's life will become a vehicle for understanding the Vietnam generation shaped in the 50s and sharpened by the tumultuous 60s.
		The Education of Lieutenant Kerrey is an incredible story and a modern morality tale about a man of compassion and promise trapped by a horrible secret.
	www.gregoryvistica.com /kerreySum.htm (260 words)

	The Militant - May 14, 2001 -- Kerrey justifies massacre by Navy unit in Vietnam
		Recent revelations in the media about former U.S. senator Robert Kerrey's role in the killing of civilians in Vietnam 32 years ago are once again shining a spotlight on Washington's 16-year-long war against the people of that country in the 1960s and '70s.
		Kerrey has made a name for himself as a Democratic politician who is "one of America's most prominent war heroes," according to the Washington Post.
		Thirty-two years ago Kerrey was a 25-year-old lieutenant who quickly made a name for himself as a gung-ho soldier, known for boasting that he was ready to take Hanoi with "a knife in my teeth," according to Vistica.
	www.themilitant.com /2001/6519/651903.html (2292 words)

	Online NewsHour: CIA and India -- June 3, 1998
		ROBERT KERREY: No. More importantly, what we've discovered is that after the fact it makes perfect sense.
		ROBERT KERREY: Well, the problem is we've got a law that doesn't give the DCI sufficient amount of authority, and, again, I think if we could get this Jeremiah report de-classified, you get a full range of suggestions that are being made.
		ROBERT KERREY: Understand that-you know, as you indicated earlier, Director Tenet asked for this study, so he asked Jeremiah to do it.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/asia/jan-june98/cia_6-3.html (1771 words)

	Korean War Conference at USD to address citizenship, leadership, and character in September(9/13/2001)
		Kerrey won election to the Senate in 1988 by an overwhelming margin over an incumbent senator and was reelected in 1994.
		Kerrey has long been recognized as a leading advocate for farmers in Nebraska and throughout the nation.
		Kerrey was a member of the Senate Finance Committee and the Senate Agricultural Committee.
	www.usd.edu /urelations/news/archives/2001/September/september03.html (2002 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Bob Kerrey: New York City's Next Mayor?
		Former United States Senator Bob Kerrey, the president of the New School University and a Democratic candidate for president in 1992, said yesterday that he was considering a run for mayor of New York City, declaring that Michael R. Bloomberg had failed to fight Washington Republican policies that Mr.
		As for Kerrey's allegedly being a "war criminal," that is an absurdly harsh way to treat mistakes someone made on the ground in Vietnam, in the heat of the action.
		Kerrey's in for a rude shock when he discovers that there are little things called "boroughs" in New York City, where most of the people actually live.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2005/04/17/231127.php (1727 words)

	CNN Transcript - Crossfire: What Does Bob Kerrey Think About Social Security Reform? - May 17, 2000
		KERREY: Well, I haven't seen all the details of it, but if he's proposing something that would allow people to take part of the taxes that go for Social Security and retain those for the purpose of enabling them to generate wealth that would supplement Social Security payment, then I support it.
		KERREY: Well, the stock market -- I mean, I would not -- we have not proposed -- and I think when the vice president says you shouldn't have a scheme that has individuals actually picking individual stocks because that's too risky, I agree with that.
		KERREY: But fundamentally, one of the things that we have with Social Security that you've got to acknowledge is that the political environment allows very few politicians the liberty of being able to say, here's what we're going to do in order to keep the promise to anybody.
	transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0005/17/cf.00.html (3840 words)

	Senator Bob Kerrey: War Criminal, Pawn, or Both?
		In 1969, as a Lieutenant (jg) in the Navy Seals, Kerrey is alleged to have led a mission in which at least 13 Vietnamese non-combatants were brutally slaughtered.
		However, the worst war criminals are the men who placed Lt. Kerrey in the killing fields to practice the deadly arts.
		Lieutenant (jg) Robert Kerrey, USN, left Viet Nam a killer of women and children, an act for which he accepted the Bronze Star.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig/elkins2.html (741 words)

	Global Beat: Kerrey Amendment on Nuclear Weapons Reductions
		Robert Kerrey (D-Neb.) intends to offer an amendment to the fiscal 2000 Defense Authorization bill to delete a provision in law barring retirement of additional nuclear weapons delivery systems until the Russian Duma ratifies START II.
		Kerrey said: "This deployed arsenal no longer serves our national security interests, and it is provoking Russia to maintain an arsenal that undermines our national security interests.
		Kerrey further stated: "Acting in his capacity as Commander in Chief and in an act of international leadership, the President should immediately order the reduction of American nuclear forces to no more than the proposed START THREE levels.
	www.nyu.edu /globalbeat/nuclear/Isaacs051199.html (915 words)

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