John Kerry sold out our Prisoners of War and Missing in Action

POW/MIA Families Against John Kerry ^ | Ann Holland

[TexasCajun]

John Kerry sold out our Prisoners of War and Missing in Action in favor of Trade Relations with Vietnam. Why?

In retrospect, it is clear that John Kerry had but one goal as Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs. His goal was to remove the issue of Prisoners of War and Missing in Action, as a roadblock to trade and normalization of relations with Vietnam. The question is.... why? All we need to do is look at two events which occurred shortly after the committee presented its finding, in January 1993.

Francis Zwenig, staff director for the Committee, who was often seen during hearings whispering in Kerry's ear, became Vice President of the U.S. - Vietnam Trade Council. Ms Zwenig, who helped shaped the conclusion of the committee and its final report was now benefitting financially from the committee's efforts to close the POW/MIA issue.

In June of 1993, as reported in a Boston Herald article by Michael E. Knell, "Colliers International brokered a $905 million dollar deal to develop a deep sea port in Vietnam.." To skirt the trade embargo still in effect against Vietnam, Colliers International acted through its partner firm Colliers Jardine based in Singapore. At the time the deal was brokered, C. Stewart Forbes was the Chief Executive Officer of Colliers International.

All through 1993 and into early 1994, John Kerry pushed for the lifting of the trade embargo against Vietnam, citing of Vietnamese cooperation on the POW/MIA issue. As evidenced in the articles of Sydney Schanberg and scripted event involving Senator Kerry and Col. Pham Duc Dia, Vietnamese cooperation was clearly a myth.

Yet, Kerry persisted in his campaign to lift the trade embargo. Finally, his efforts were rewarded in February 1994, when President Clinton lifted the embargo.

Did Kerry have an another agenda, beyond the stated goals of the committee? Before you answer that question, there is one other piece of information you need to know. C. Stewart Forbes CEO of Colliers International and John Forbes Kerry are cousins.

Did financial gain motivate Kerry's actions as Chairman of the Select Committee?

Perhaps someone in the media will ask the question.

[TexasCajun]

I'd appreciate some help posting the picture that is on the link. (HTML Dummy-Thanks)

[Eric in the Ozarks]

It was Nixon's war anyway.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Here is a picture and the real story!

First Down Kerry




This is how I flew above, the jungles there in Nam.
I held the skid and fired my gun, bam bam bam bam bam.
We approached the landing zone, I was the first man down.
“First Down Kerry”, I was called, Air Cav had come to town.
I designed the Huey, the Cobra, the Jolly Green.
Still I went to fight VC, I was a lean machine.
Swift boats, choppers, bombers too, ah yes I did it all.
For four months I was busy, but still I took the call.
I served with honor, brave, and true, saved so many men.
Viet Nam is safer now, I would go back again.

Conspiracy Guy aka DIF 8/5/2004

[sgtbono2002]

This is no secret to those of us who have been following Kerry . However it seems to not matter to Bush bashers. This man who is taking credit for being in the Viet Nam war, running a campaign on that fact,seems to have political Alzheimers when it come top other parts of his life.

[JimVT]

[narby]

The question is.... why?

Huh... Maybe he's a commie?

[RightthinkinAmerican]

There's no room in today's news for this. Bush's "misspeak" is much more important. </sarcasm>

[gunnygail]

WOW! I hope you were JOKING!

Oct 1963, JFnK #1 sends 15,000 MORE advisors to Vietnam.

LBJ increases level of troops to 550,000!

LBJ made MILLIONS off of the war with stock blocks in Colt and Sea/Land shipping.

LBJ insisted on running the war from DC, 13,000 miles away, to include planning PLATOON size actions. Of course, he had about combat time as Jimmy Karter.

Nixon was left with a mess and started bombing the CRAP out of NVN. If it wasn't for backstabbing turds like JFnK #2, we'd have won. If you don't believe me, read Gen Giap's memoirs. He states EXPLICTLY that the anti-war movement in the states gave the NVN the courage to continue when they were ready to surrender. Thanks to morons like JFnK #2, we lost more brave men and the war.

[Natural Law]

Kerry is constitutionally ineligible to be President.

Amendment XIV Section 3:

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

[OldFriend]

During subsequent investigations into the MIA issue, kerry and his good friend mccain made sure that the families of the MIA was ignored, lied to, and disrespected.

When those families tried to bring attention to McC's actions during his failed presidential campaign, they were pilloried by the media and McC operatives.

[mountaineer]

A "must read" article: Senator covered up evidence of P.O.W.'s left behind: When John Kerry's Courage Went M.I.A., from the Village Voice (!). Here's an excerpt:

Senator John Kerry, a decorated battle veteran, was courageous as a navy lieutenant in the Vietnam War. But he was not so courageous more than two decades later, when he covered up voluminous evidence that a significant number of live American prisoners—perhaps hundreds—were never acknowledged or returned after the war-ending treaty was signed in January 1973.

The Massachusetts senator, now seeking the presidency, carried out this subterfuge a little over a decade ago— shredding documents, suppressing testimony, and sanitizing the committee's final report—when he was chairman of the Senate Select Committee on P.O.W./ M.I.A. Affairs.

Over the years, an abundance of evidence had come to light that the North Vietnamese, while returning 591 U.S. prisoners of war after the treaty signing, had held back many others as future bargaining chips for the $4 billion or more in war reparations that the Nixon administration had pledged. Hanoi didn't trust Washington to fulfill its pro-mise without pressure. Similarly, Washington didn't trust Hanoi to return all the prisoners and carry out all the treaty provisions. The mistrust on both sides was merited. Hanoi held back prisoners and the U.S. provided no reconstruction funds. The stated purpose of the special Senate committee—which convened in mid 1991 and concluded in January 1993—was to investigate the evidence about prisoners who were never returned and find out what happened to the missing men. Committee chair Kerry's larger and different goal, though never stated publicly, emerged over time: He wanted to clear a path to normalization of relations with Hanoi. In any other context, that would have been an honorable goal. But getting at the truth of the unaccounted for P.O.W.'s and M.I.A.'s (Missing In Action) was the main obstacle to normalization—and therefore in conflict with his real intent and plan of action.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

'swhat Kerry said.

[RippleFire]

bump

[Bob]

'swhat Kerry said.

Who cares what kerry says? That doesn't make it true.

Johnson was president when kerry went to Vietnam. Nixon was inaugurated while he was there.

[hobson]

It makes me wonder if McCain received a piece of Collier International in return for aiding a abetting.

[JimVT]

It's fairly simple. 1. Go to the picture site 2. RIGHT click on the picture. 3. Go to "Properties". 4. You'll see something similar to this:

http://www.powmiafamiliesagainstjohnkerry.com/coverrw.jpg

5. Drag your cursor over the http info to highlight it then click 'copy'

6. Paste the http info where you want to send it show it.,etc.

Then add the following.

img src=(the http info)with brackets in front of img and after the http info and quotation marks enclosing the http info.

[JimVT]

Sorry...meant to send a private reply.

[OldFriend]

Seem to remember McC having a big investment opportunity in Viet Nam.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I know, I know. I was just being sarcastic. Kerry can't remember who LBJ was.
I remember.

[caisson71]

I can't figure out why McCain is still defending Kerry. It doesn't make sense. McCain was a POW, knows full well what Kerry did and he still defends his actions.