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John Kerry to AIPAC: ‘We have no illusions’ [Can we fact check?]
Politico ^ | March 3, 2014 | EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE

Posted on 03/04/2014 4:05:36 AM PST by don-o

Secretary of State John Kerry came to AIPAC with a lot of selling to do on behalf of the Obama administration’s ambitions for the Middle East.

The crowd responded with light applause and a short standing ovation as he left the stage.

Speaking in Washington on Monday night to the annual conference of the Israel advocacy group, Kerry — whom the administration sent rather than President Barack Obama or Vice President Joe Biden — recalled when, on a trip years ago to an Israeli air base as a senator, one of the officers took him up in a fighter jet and let him fly for a while.

Doing some “acrobatics,” over the Negev — the desert region in the country’s south — Kerry said, the thought struck him: “This is the perfect way to see the Middle East: upside down and backward.”

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I heard this speech on CSpan radio just now and Politico is the first story I found.

Now, I knew John Kerry was in Viet Nam. He drove a boat. Right.

But, this is the first I have heard that he could do loops and rolls in a fighter jet.

1 posted on 03/04/2014 4:05:36 AM PST by don-o
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To: don-o

http://www.wnd.com/2004/05/24480/

Deja vu. All over again.

Told same story in 2004


2 posted on 03/04/2014 4:09:37 AM PST by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: don-o

What a horse’s ass! What an international embarrassment, in every corner of this Admin! From the ‘top’ on down. How far we have fallen........


3 posted on 03/04/2014 4:13:28 AM PST by originalbuckeye (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
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To: don-o

I suppose Kerry’s fighter piloting skills are “seared into his memory” as well.


4 posted on 03/04/2014 4:19:07 AM PST by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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To: don-o

First, aircraft perform aerobatics, not acrobatics.

Second, to be fair to Kerry he may be correct about ‘illusions’, as the proper descriptor for his ailment is ‘delusions’.


5 posted on 03/04/2014 4:23:14 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: originalbuckeye

“What a horse’s ass!” He also has the head.


6 posted on 03/04/2014 4:34:10 AM PST by billhilly
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To: originalbuckeye

“What a horse’s ass!”

The Democrat Party is full of them. Nothing new here.


7 posted on 03/04/2014 4:37:22 AM PST by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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To: don-o

Wonder if he wore his Super Secret CIA hat from when not yet President Nixon sent him into Cambodia.


8 posted on 03/04/2014 4:39:16 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: don-o

I’ll bet BO thinks this guy is stupid and that we are stupid for letting a male Jane Fonda into the top spot at state Ill bet they don’t even converse


9 posted on 03/04/2014 4:42:26 AM PST by stanne
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To: SampleMan

Who knows with him at the controls perhaps it was tumbling thru the air!!!


10 posted on 03/04/2014 4:44:33 AM PST by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: don-o

Upside down and backward—same way he drove his boat.


11 posted on 03/04/2014 5:28:45 AM PST by _longranger81
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