Posted on 12/11/2016 4:34:22 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Paris (AFP) - US Secretary of State John Kerry has been given the Legion d'Honneur, France's highest honour, with his French counterpart calling him "the most French of American officials".
At a ceremony in Paris on Saturday, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault also said the top US diplomat was a "tireless champion of peace".
"Francophone, Francophile, you are certainly the most French of American officials" Ayrault said.
Kerry's French heritage and fondness for the country saw him attacked on the presidential campaign trail in 2004, when he was the Democratic candidate running against Republican George W Bush.
Tensions were running high between Paris and Washington over the Iraq war, to the extent that America's beloved junk food, French Fries, were briefly renamed Freedom Fries, Ayrault said.
Kerry's mother and aunt were born in Paris in the early 1920s and America's top diplomat spent holidays as a young man at the family residence in Saint-Brignac-sur-Mer, in Brittany.
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Can I get me a drapeau blanc?
I sure miss the Kerry for prez campaign. Never laughed so much in my life
he supported the man who over threw the French in Indo China. Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam
Traitor
Jean Francois Kerry...it figures. Hero of France.
The video was embarrassing for me to watch - any little league ballplayer would have done better.
At the very least, the would have toed the rubber. Second worst ‘first pitch’ ever!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-Tart58c7E
Did James Taylor provide the music? Perhaps he will one day throw this medal away too.
Spit.
Vietnam? Yes he was.
Three notes:
#1: He lied about his Purple Hearts so he could abandon his men and return early from Vietnam. I was told that personally by Lewis Letson, M.D>, the Navy surgeon who “treated” him for what Dr. Letson called “scratches.”
The interesting part was that no one in his unit opposed his departure, as they considered him a dangerously incompetent combat commander.
#2: He open lied to Congress in his sworn testimony about supposed war crimes committed by Americans in Vietnam.
#3: In Paris, he effectively became part of the North Vietnamese negotiating team against American and our South Vietnamese allies.
His actions prolonged the war and resulted in many additional American casualties.
John Kerry is a traitor. He should have been tried and shot years ago. The French can keep him.
Did he immediately throw his medal over the Eiffel Tower?
*SMIRK*
These people have NO IDEA what a bunch of Commie posers the rest of us think they are.
UN-believable.
Well, there’s never been anyone more French, in every sense of the word, than John Kerry.
About all he could do more now is don a burka...or a suicide vest.
Will he be throwing it over the fence at Versailles?
No, you must be thinking of someone else.
ESnailsAD retard.
Does France have any traitors we can give our highest honor to? /s
call the press and go throw it over the White House fence. That medal means about as much as Obama being given the Nobel. pure BS , means nothing , worth nothing.
Did a North Vietnamese commie give it to him?
About as worthy as Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize.
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