John Kerry's Other War Record

[stormchazer]

John Kerry's War Record
> >
> >Washington Times
> >Letters to the Editor
> >December 6, 2002
> >
> >John Kerry's war record As Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat,
> >Considers a bid for the White House, Americans should know a few things
> >about him that he might prefer go unmentioned; and I don't mean his $75
> >haircuts.
> >
> >When Mr. Kerry pontificated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Veterans
> >Day, a group of veterans turned their backs on him and walked away. They
> >remembered Mr. Kerry as the anti-war activist who testified before
> Congress
> >during the war, accusing veterans of being war criminals. The dust
> jacket of
> >Mr. Kerry's pro-Hanoi book, "The New Soldier," features a photograph of
> his
> >ragged band of radicals mocking the U.S. Marine Corps Memorial, which
> >depicts the flag-raising on Iwo Jima, with an upside-down American flag.
> >
> >
> >
> >Retired Gen. George S. Patton III charged that Mr. Kerry's actions as an
> >anti-war activist had "given aid and comfort to the enemy," as had the
> >actions of Ramsey Clark and Jane Fonda. Also, Mr. Kerry lied when he
> threw
> >what he claimed were his war medals over the White House fence; he later
> >admitted they weren't his. Now they are displayed on his office wall.
> Long
> >after he changed sides in congressional hearings, Mr. Kerry lobbied for
> >renewed trade relations with Hanoi. At the same time, his cousin C.
> Stewart
> >Forbes, chief Executive for Colliers International, assisted in
> brokering a
> >$905 million deal to develop a deep-sea port at Vung Tau, Vietnam; an
> odd
> >coincidence.
> >
> >As noted in the Inside Politics column of Nov. 14 (Nation), historian
> >Douglas Brinkley is writing Mr. Kerry's biography. Hopefully, he'll
> include
> >the senator's latest ignominious feat: preventing the Vietnam Human
> Rights
> >Act (HR2833) from coming to a vote in the Senate, claiming human rights
> >would deteriorate as a result. His actions sent a clear signal to Hanoi
> that
> >Congress cares little about the human rights for which so many Americans
> >fought and died.
> >
> >
> >
> >The State Department ranked Vietnam among the 10 regimes worldwide least
> >tolerant of religious freedom. Recently, 354 churches of the
> Montagnards, a
> >Christian ethnic minority, were forcibly disbanded, and by mid-October,
> more
> >than 50 Christian pastors and elders had been arrested in Dak Lak
> province
> >alone.
> >
> >
> >
> >On Oct. 29, the secret police executed three Montagnards by lethal
> injection
> >simply for protesting religious repression. The communists are
> conducting a
> >program against the Montagnards, forcing Christians to drink a mixture
> of
> >goat's blood and alcohol and renounce Christianity. Thousands have been
> >killed or imprisoned or have just "disappeared." The Montagnards lost
> >one-half of their adult male population fighting for the United States,
> and
> >without them, there might be thousands more American names on that
> somber
> >black granite wall at the Vietnam memorial.
> >
> >As Mr. Kerry contemplates a run for the presidency, people must remember
> >that he has fought harder for Hanoi as an anti-war activist and a
> senator
> >than he did against the Vietnamese communists while serving in the Navy
> in
> >Vietnam.
> >
> >
> >MICHAEL BENGE
> >Foreign Service officer and former Vietnam POW (1968 to 1973)
> >Washington

[rainstorm]

kerry has the same voting record as kennedy. nuff said

[blizzard]

kerry has the same voting record as kennedy. nuff said

Your point???

[Lindaloo]

Because Kennedy is radical and a should be convicted felon.

[blizzard]

Because Kennedy is radical and a should be convicted felon.

My appologies linda, I thought you were talking about JFK, "lol"
sorry....lol

[wx247]

Yep... he is pretty much like Kennedy.

[rainstorm]

kerry has the same voting record as kennedy. nuff said

Your point???

northeast ultra liberal.

[blizzard]

kerry has the same voting record as kennedy. nuff said

Your point???

northeast ultra liberal.

Already got an explanation

[Lindaloo]

ROFL @ blizzard. There will never be another JFK. Matter of fact, all the registered Democrats from back then still think of that party as JFK. Have times changed!! Hope that makes sense. lol.

[blizzard]

Oh Yeah! makes alot of sense...

[Skywatch_NC]

John UNKerring Kerry

[streetsoldier]

THIS sort of background should be widely distributed after the primaries (if Kerry gets the "nod").

As to GW being either a "deserter" (Michael Moore) or having no military service (what, the Texas Air National Guard doesn't count? He was an F-104 Delta Dagger pilot...all-weather supersonic interceptor specifically designed as a gun platfrom to down Russian bombers)....strictly BS.

He didn't get those AF wings from a Cracker Jack box.

[mf_dolphin]

One day the glamour is going to come off Camelot as well. JFK was far from the saint he's made out to be. I think historians further down the road will be a little less kind to his Presidency.

[Lindaloo]

I believe historians are already hinting at doing that now.

[timNms]

Funny how money can get you out of just about anything, isn't it? I was not impressed with the Kennedys.
Wonder what this country would be like if say a farmer or some regular guy or lady like some of us was president?

[ColdFront77]

kerry has the same voting record as kennedy. nuff said

That's indeed true. Senator Kerry has voted the same as Senator Kennedy 94% or 96% of the time, temporarily forget which one specifically.

I wonder which bills they had different opinions on...

[Anonymous]

Bush has a horrible military record...He friggin' dissapeared how many times? Yet nobody likes to talk about that...Not even the "liberal" media. Kerry has a MUCH better military record than Bush, so let's not even go there people...

[Lindaloo]

Bush has a horrible military record...He friggin' dissapeared how many times? Yet nobody likes to talk about that...Not even the "liberal" media. Kerry has a MUCH better military record than Bush, so let's not even go there people...

Just because someone has a so called great military record does not make them able to President of the United States. Even though you say this I can guarantee the military is the first place he starts balancing the budget. Read your history on Dems and the military.

[blizzard]

One day the glampour is going to come off Camelot as well. JFK was far from the saint he's made out to be. I think historians further down the road will be a little less kind to his Presidency.

You are correct there my friend. There hasn't been a president yet that has been lily white...

[stormchazer]

Bush has a horrible military record...He friggin' dissapeared how many times? Yet nobody likes to talk about that...Not even the "liberal" media. Kerry has a MUCH better military record than Bush, so let's not even go there people...

Bush doesn't start every speech by mentioning what a great military guy he was either! Kerry has used his positive military record as a platform for why he should be President without mentioning that he denounced that record imediately after returning from Vietnam while his "buddies" were still dying over there. That is why I take exception!