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This astonishing photograph shows U.S Secretary of State John Kerry having a cosy and intimate dinner with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. Kerry - who compared Assad to Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein yesterday - is pictured around a small table with his wife and the Assads in 2009. Assad and Kerry - who was then a senator for Massachusetts - lean in towards each other and appear deep in conversation as their wives look on. A waiter is pictured at their side with a tray of green drinks - which are believed to be lemon and crushed mint.

For Kerry, the public showdown with Pickens represents not only a belated engagement with old antagonists, but also an early strike against a Democratic primary opponent who signaled Monday that he welcomes the scrutiny of Kerry's military record initiated by the Swift Boat ad campaign in 2004. "It goes to his credibility," said Ed O'Reilly, a Gloucester lawyer mounting a challenge to Kerry in the Democratic primary. "It needs to be cleared up." [snip] As it stands, the man most welcoming of the return to the conflicts of 2004 is O'Reilly, who is attacking Kerry as not opposing the Iraq...

Special Report McGlory Be Print Friendly Format E-Mail this to a Friend By Patrick Hynes Published 3/17/2004 12:05:19 AM In the heat of the 2000 election, Vice President Al Gore ridiculously remarked that the characters in the movie Love Story were based on him and his wife Tipper. The comment was patently untrue and, given Gore's earlier whopper about inventing the Internet, it was easy to shrug off. But John Kerry, this year's Democrat heir presumptive to the presidency, may have a greater claim to the role of screenwriter's muse. The 1997 Gramercy Pictures production The Matchmaker features a character...

Subject: Re: Vietnam Veterans vs Vietnam Veterans Against the War: As forwarded by PJ... S/F- Rick Subject: John Kerry - SEA Hero or "Anti-war Peacenik"? Folks, inevitably, the course of our military is linked to politics...thus, I will send out messages such as this one - Nena Courtesy of Mark Berent.... 'War Hero' john kerry I keep hearing “Vietnam Veteran” every time this joker makes a speech. Below adds some perspective. As Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, [consolidates his]...bid for the White House, Americans should know a few things about him that he might prefer go unmentioned - and I...