Posted on 05/18/2008 8:05:11 AM PDT by moneyrunner
This needs to be widely distributed.
I can't post the video clip so you will have to go the the link.
It's a clip of John McCain appearing on Des Moines' WHO radio last July, when on-air talent Jan Mickelson played him Tom Harkin's comments from earlier that month, recorded on the floor of the Senate:
And if we leave, there will be a bloodbath in Vietnam. All of the people who supported us will be slaughtered in the streets. Well, it didn't happen.
The biggest difference in the Right and Left is our ability (or willingness) to recount historical facts.
Yes, and there was no persecution in Eastern Europe after the U.S. sold the region out to the Soviets after World War 2. Life was beautiful, and there were no toilet paper shortages whatsoever! And North Korea and Zimbabwe are perfect utopias where everyone lives in peace and harmony, with bunnies and green grass and rainbows. Don't tell Jimmy Carter about the bunnies, though. /s
for people like harkin, only good thing happened in southeast asia after the war: communism flourished.
And so soon after Dith Pran’s death, too. What a great guy, Mr. Harkin.
To harkin—
Is that why all those “boat people” left the country?
It was too much of a paradise?
“How embarrassing for his family that he is such a total moron. “
No matter how many people tell me I am nuts, I still think Harkin and Biden were separated at birth.
Funny how I personally know people who didn't see their fathers for 12-17 years. Or ever again after the fall of the Republic of Viet Nam. Not to mention my Khmer friends.
The biggest difference in the Right and Left is our ability (or willingness) to recount historical facts.
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Yes, and nothing bad happened in Europe after Hitler came into power, either. The left are stupid, and mentally defective. A bunch of utopian fools who RE-WRITE HISTORY to suit their fantasy world they create at every turn.
All you have to do, is listen to Obama for no more than a minute at any given time, and you get a large enough dose of what the left has degenerated to — to wake up anyone with an IQ over 65.
Wow!!! He actually said that??? I know I listened but the lie is so fantastic I con not fully comprehend it. Every bit as dangerous and delusional as the Holocaust deniers!!!
“How embarrassing for his family that he is such a total moron.”
What about the moronic Iowa voters who return this idiot to office?
I think they must be related to the idiots who keep returning Kennedy and Kerry to office.
When Bill Clinton wanted to reestablish relations with the North Vietnamese communists, Tom Harkin was the communist he sent over first to treat with them. I wonder why...
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Actually, if that’s Harkin’s wife in the picture with Ortega, they look “separated at birth” to me!
Even better, he made the trains run on time.
This has to be the epitome of denial. Based on total contravention of reality, in which hundreds of thousands were fleeing the country, under circumstances that would make the flight from Cuba during the regime of Fidel Castro look like a Sunday stroll in the park.
Tom Harkin would be much more convincing if he were to deny global warming. Or the existence of the Holocaust.
Maybe nothing bad EVER happens. At least not in the parallel universe that Tom Harkin inhabits.
Well that is a fact, if you only got your information from our media. After the US troops left, the media stopped reporting about bad things in Vietnam. Since the evil US government was no longer there, everything was rosy. So the atrocities of the communist regime that followed did not happen since they were not seen nightly on our TV sets or in our newspapers of record. Out of sight out of mind. Unfortunately, that reality was not the case for the south Vietnamese people who actually lived through it.
And still the Iowa Republicans, same as for decades, can’t find an answer to Commie Tommy. (Out of a multitude of failures, this is their signal failure.)
They continue to think they can beat a socialist warrior with milquetoast.
"Shortly after taking office in 1985, Kerry and Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa went on a fact-finding trip to Nicaragua, where they met with Daniel Ortega (right) and other Sandinistas. The trip was criticized when the Sandinistas cemented ties with Moscow."
http://cache.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/images/day6/01b.jpg
The Real Story Behind Rev. Wright's Controversial Black Liberation Theology Doctrine
Monday , May 5, 2008
FoxNews/Hannity's America
[special Friday night edition--original airdate May 2, 2008]
(some key excerpts)
JOSE DIAZ-BALART, TELEMUNDO NETWORK: "Liberation theology in Nicaragua in the mid-1980's was a pro-Sandinista, pro-Marxist, anti-U.S., anti-Catholic Church movement. That's it. No ifs, ands, or buts. His church apparently supported, in the mid-'80s in Nicaragua, groups that supported the Sandinista dictatorships and that were opposed to the Contras whose reason for being was calling for elections. That's all I know. I was there.
I saw the churches in Nicaragua that he spoke of, and the churches were churches that talked about the need for violent revolution and I remember clearly one of the major churches in Managua where the Jesus Christ on the altar was not Jesus Christ, he was a Sandinista soldier, and the priests talked about the corruption of the West, talked about the need for revolution everywhere, and talked about 'the evil empire' which was the United States of America."
REV. BOB SCHENCK, NATIONAL CLERGY COUNCIL: "it's based in Marxism. At the core of his [Wright's] theology is really an anti-Christian understanding of God, and as part of a long history of individuals who actually advocate using violence in overthrowing those they perceive to be oppressing them, even acts of murder have been defended by followers of liberation theology. That's very, very dangerous."
SCHENCK: "I was actually the only person escorted to Dr. Wright. He asked to see me, and I simply welcomed him to Washington, and then I said Dr. Wright, I want to bring you a warning: your embrace of Marxist liberation theology. It is contrary to the Gospel, and you need, sir, to abandon it. And at that he dropped the handshake and made it clear that he was not in the mood to dialogue on that point."
The Real Story Behind Rev. Wright's Controversial Black Liberation Theology Doctrine:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html
Obama's Church: Gospel of Hate
Kathy Shaidle, FrontPageMag.com
Monday, April 07, 2008
In March of 2007, FOX News host Sean Hannity had engaged Obama’s pastor in a heated interview about his Church’s teachings. For many viewers, the ensuing shouting match was their first exposure to "Black Liberation Theology"...
Like the pro-communist Liberation Theology that swept Central America in the 1980s and was repeatedly condemned by Pope John Paul II, Black Liberation Theology combines warmed-over 1960s vintage Marxism with carefully distorted biblical passages. However, in contrast to traditional Marxism, it emphasizes race rather than class. The Christian notion of "salvation" in the afterlife is superseded by "liberation" on earth, courtesy of the establishment of a socialist utopia.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=30CD9E14-B0C9-4F8C-A0A6-A896F0F44F02
From "45 Communist Goals":
#27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion.
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
Harkin is an embarrassment to Iowa, the US Senate and our country.
>>>They continue to think they can beat a socialist warrior with milquetoast.
That mentality has escaped Iowa and infected the entire Republican Party establishment.
That is Ruth Harkin.
She, by the way, has parlayed the power of her husband’s Senatorial position into a personal family fortune.
Wow! harkin just stepped in it-what an ASS!
Indeed it has.
Harkin has been “stepping in it” for forty years. Hasn’t hurt him yet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyluck
I lived in Hong Kong when it happened and what the Wiki folks don't tell you is that the ship's crew deliberately ran the Skyluck up onto the beach.
Harkin will be met at the pearly gates by all of the victims of Vietnam communism, just as Teddy will be met by Mary Jo Kopeckne.
Must be that whole “evil of two lessers” thing.
To elite left wingers like Harkin, Kennedy, Pelosi, Boxer, Clintoons, Kerry and Obama, nothing important did happen.
Since they are racists, the deaths of a million SE Asians was nothing to them.
Technically speaking, this is more or less accurate.
Most were killed in camps, not in the streets.
Also, the significant majority of those killed were in Cambodia, not in Vietnam.
Finally, as others have pointed out, the media is so self-obsessed that they believe they create reality by reporting it. If CBS didn't report the killing, complete with color video, it just didn't happen.
When the city of Hue invaded by NVA regulars during the Tet Offensive, there was wide scale slaughter that the media conveniently and uniformly overlooked. Now, because they ignored it then, it never happened. Ask anybody from the 5th Marine Division.
And these are Vietnamese refugees my ship picked up in 1981 that never happened, either.
If that Harkin is only a Moron would be a gift to Our Country, but he is an outright Liar relating to Vietnam among many areas and hence a Traitor to Our Country.
And I suppose no one ever saw these little boats, especially those who are vietnamese themselves....
Only DNA testing will prove otherwise.
Why not test Dick Durham as well, they might have been triplets?
This type of thinking is exactly the line that is given by Ron Paul. Both are a disgrace.
The family of an American-born Vietnamese friend of mine would beg to differ with Harkin.
“Nothing bad happened after we left Vietnam”.
Except for the slaughter of over 40,000 South Vietnamese when Saigon was conquered by the North Vietnamese and renamed Ho Chi Minh City, otherwise known as the Fall of Saigon
http://www.afa.org/magazine/april2000/0400saigon.asp
I have met and spoken with some people who survived “re-education”. Harkin is a putz. A clueless putz.
Oops. I was trying to post a “Killing Fields” movie poster.
You know, I watch the two democRat candidates and realize what they will do to destroy this nation. I determine I will grit my teeth in November and vote for McCain.
Then the fool goes and proposes this new League of Nations.
The buzzard sayes we have to “save the planet” from CO2.
He claims Viet Nam was fine after the fall of the South.
Then I determine I’ll abstain from voting for a president this round.
Then Obama or Hillary show their fascist roots and the cycle repeats itself.
Where were the Republican voices calling Harkin on this blatant lie?
Another reason my wallet is closed. I am not alone either.
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