Editing Swift Vets and POWs for Truth (section)

====Book, other media statements====
Jerome Corsi has said that a picture of Kerry's 1993 visit to Vietnam hangs in the War Remnants Museum in [[Ho Chi Minh City]] as a gesture of "honor" by the [[Communist]]s "for his contribution to their victory over [the] United States",{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}} and John O'Neill has stated that Kerry "is in the North Vietnamese war museum as a hero... . one of the heroes who caused them to win the war in Vietnam".<ref name="nightline">{{cite news|title=Nightline with Ted Koppel|work=ABC News|date=2004-10-14|url=http://www.swiftvets.com/staticpages/index.php?page=Nightline|access-date=2007-04-01}} Self-published transcript URL.</ref> The statement is also repeated in "Unfit for Command" (pp 167–174). However, Josh Gerstein of the ''[[New York Sun]]'' stated in this regard:

{{blockquote|While the museum clearly honors opponents of the war from America and other countries, it is not clear that the photo of Mr. Kerry is part of that tribute. The picture of the senator hangs among a set of photos devoted to the restoration of diplomatic relations between America and Vietnam in the 1990s.

The picture apparently was taken as Kerry took part in a delegation President Bill Clinton sent to Hanoi in 1993. Other photos nearby show visits during that period by former American officials who played key roles in the Vietnam War, including a Navy admiral who has since died, Elmo Zumwalt, and a defense secretary, Robert McNamara. A secretary of state during Clinton's term, Warren Christopher, is also shown meeting Vietnamese officials|Josh Gerstein<ref name="nysun">{{cite news|last=Gerstein|first=Josh|title=Kerry's Photo Raises Eyebrows In Museum In Ho Chi Minh City|work=NY Sun|date=2004-08-16|url=http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=TllTLzIwMDQvMDgvMTYjQXIwMDEwMA==&Mode=HTML&Locale=english-skin-custom|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071122210833/http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=TllTLzIwMDQvMDgvMTYjQXIwMDEwMA==&Mode=HTML&Locale=english-skin-custom|archive-date=2007-11-22}}</ref>}}

In this connection, the web page Corsi and another anti-Kerry veteran originally published on the Kerry museum photo contained the picture of [[Robert McNamara]]'s 1995 meeting with General [[Võ Nguyên Giáp|Giáp]], who was misidentified as "[[Mao Tse-tung]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tinyvital.com/Misc/KerryHonoredByCommunists2.htm|title=Museum Photo Documented|publisher=Tinyvital.com|access-date=2010-05-28}}</ref> (Photo #10).

In addition, John O'Neill said that in 1971 John Kerry "wanted to abandon ship and leave the POWs [in Vietnam]" and that "[o]n the [[Dick Cavett]] show and elsewhere, John Kerry's position was that we should accept the [[Madame Binh]] seven-point proposal, which called for unilateral withdrawal, setting a date after which at some future time, we'd negotiate the return of the POWs. So we would set a date. We would withdraw and then we would begin to discuss how to bring them home".<ref name="scarborough">{{cite news|title=Scarborough Country|work=transcript|publisher=NBC News TV|date=2004-10-22|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna6327790|access-date=2007-04-01}}</ref> However, in the Cavett debate, Kerry actually said:

{{blockquote|Now, if we were to set a date for withdrawal from Southeast Asia, we can – the Vietnamese, first of all, have said it will be settled prior to the arrival of that date, but we can set a time limit on that. If the prisoners of war aren't back prior to the arrival of that date, then I think we would have – for the first time in all of our history in Vietnam we would have a legitimate reason for taking some kind of reaction to it.|John Kerry<ref name="dickcavett">{{cite news|title=Dick Cavett Show|work=transcript|publisher=ABC TV|date=1971-06-20|url=http://www.swiftvets.com/staticpages/index.php?page=Debate2|access-date=2007-04-01}} Transcript URL is self-published</ref>}}