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What You Don’t Know About John Kerry
Newsmax. ^ | Jan. 20, 2004 | Chuck Noe

Posted on 01/21/2004 8:04:53 AM PST by OPS4

What You Don’t Know About John Kerry Chuck Noe, NewsMax.com Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2004 With his win in Iowa, Sen. John Kerry could be on his way to the White House. But most Americans are unaware of the real Kerry. Here are facts and quotations that reveal the character of the new Democrat leader.

Denouncing America with ‘Hanoi’ Jane: Although Wesley Clark and others have attacked former front-runner Howard Dean as a draft-dodging ski bum, Kerry is far more complex than the simple war hero he portrays himself as. He became a celebrated organizer for one of America's most extreme appeasement groups, Vietnam Veterans Against the War. He consorted with the likes of “Hanoi” Jane Fonda and Ramsey Clark, Lyndon Johnson’s radical former attorney general.

He attended a seminar bankrolled by Fonda in Detroit in February 1971. Watching 125 self-proclaimed Vietnam veterans testify at a Howard Johnson’s about atrocities allegedly committed by U.S. forces, the man who would be president later said he found the accounts shocking and irrefutable.

Dubbed “The Winter Soldier Investigation,” the protest attracted minimal media attention, according to the Los Angeles Times, because Fonda insisted it be held in the remote Michigan city rather than the less “authentic” Washington, D.C.

Still, the event gave Kerry an idea for a protest that was sure to be a media smash, and he immediately set out to organize one of the most confrontational protests of the war.

Operation Dewey Canyon III began on April 18, 1971, when nearly 1,000 Vietnam veterans and people claiming to be veterans gathered on Washington’s Mall for what they called “a limited incursion into the country of Congress.”

The group staged mock firefights on the steps of the Capitol and Supreme Court and defied U.S. Park Police after the Department of Justice issued an injunction barring it from camping on the Mall.

Those evil American soldiers: Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 23, 1971, Kerry claimed that U.S. soldiers had “raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam.”

‘We are not the best’: In his testimony, Kerry claimed there was no communist threat and said: “In 1970 at West Point Vice President Agnew said ‘some glamorize the criminal misfits of society while our best men die in Asian rice paddies to preserve the freedom which most of those misfits abuse,’ and this was used as a rallying point for our effort in Vietnam. But for us, as boys in Asia whom the country was supposed to support, his statement is a terrible distortion from which we can only draw a very deep sense of revulsion, and hence the anger of some of the men who are here in Washington today. It is a distortion because we in no way consider ourselves the best men of this country ….” U.S. Veteran Dispatch noted in 1996: “Kerry's testimony, it should be noted, occurred while some of his fellow Vietnam veterans were known by the world to be enduring terrible suffering as prisoners of war in North Vietnamese prisons. Kerry was a supporter of the ‘People's Peace Treaty,’" a supposed ‘people's’ declaration to end the war, reportedly drawn up in communist East Germany. It included nine points, all of which were taken from Viet Cong peace proposals at the Paris peace talks as conditions for ending the war.”

Throw as I say, not as I do: On that same day he led members of VVAW in a protest during which they threw their medals and ribbons over a fence in front of the U.S. Capitol. Kerry later admitted the medals he threw were not his. To this day they hang on the wall of his office.

Communist stooge: The communist Daily World delightedly published photos of him speaking to demonstrators and boasted that the marchers displayed a banner depicting a portrait of Communist Party leader Angela Davis, on record stating, “I am dedicated to the overthrow of your system of government and your society,” the New American recalled in May 2003. “By frequently participating in VVAW’s demonstrations, Kerry found himself marching alongside what the Boston Herald Traveler identified as ‘revolutionary Communists.’ While noting that known Reds had openly organized these events, the December 12, 1971 Herald Traveler reported the presence of an ‘abundance of Vietcong flags, clenched fists raised in the air, and placards plainly bearing legends in support of China, Cuba, the USSR, North Korea and the Hanoi government.’"

Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry says: “As a national leader of VVAW, Kerry campaigned against the effort of the United States to contain the spread of Communism. He used the blood of servicemen still in the field for his own political advancement by claiming that their blood was being shed unnecessarily or in vain.

“Under Kerry's leadership, VVAW members mocked the uniform of United States soldiers by wearing tattered fatigues marked with pro-communist graffiti. They dishonored America by marching in demonstrations under the flag of the Viet Cong enemy.”

Sen. John McCain revealed that his North Vietnamese captors had used reports of Kerry-led protests to taunt him and his fellow prisoners. Retired General George S. Patton III angrily noted that Kerry’s actions had “given aid and comfort to the enemy.”

In recent years when Kerry has exploited the Vietnam Veterans Memorial for photo opportunities on Veterans Day, some veterans, still outraged by his betrayal, have turned their backs on him.

The book he doesn’t want you to see: When Kerry ran for election to the U.S. House of Representative in 1972, “he found it necessary to suppress reproduction of the cover picture appearing on his own book, The New Soldier. His political opponent pointed out that it depicted several unkempt youths crudely handling an American flag to mock the famous photo of the U.S. Marines at Iwo Jima,” according to Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry. “Suddenly, copies of the book became unavailable and even disappeared from libraries. But the Lowell (Mass.) Sun said of the type of person shown on its cover: ‘These people spit on the flag, they burn the flag, they carry the flag upside down, [and] they all but wipe their noses with it in their efforts to show their contempt for everything it still stands for,’” the New American reported.

Even today it is hard to find this infamous photo and book.

Friendly with the enemy: Kerry’s fondness for Vietnam’s communist dictatorship, one of the most oppressive in the world, continues. As chairman of the Select Senate Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, created in 1991 to investigate reports that U.S. prisoners of war and soldiers designated missing in action were still alive in Vietnam, Kerry badgered the panel into voting that no American servicemen remained in Vietnam.

“[N]o one in the United States Senate pushed harder to bury the POW/MIA issue, the last obstacle preventing normalization of relations with Hanoi, than John Forbes Kerry,” noted U.S. Veteran Dispatch.

“But Kerry's participation in the Committee became controversial in December 1992,” reported the nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity, “when Hanoi announced that it had awarded Colliers International, a Boston-based real estate company, an exclusive deal to develop its commercial real estate potentially worth billions. Stuart Forbes, the CEO of Colliers, is Kerry's cousin.”

The “odd coincidence,” according to FrontPageMagazine.com, involved a deal worth $905 million.

Jeff Jacoby, the token conservative columnist at the Boston Globe, notes that Kerry continues his apologia for Vietnam's never-ending atrocities. "Far from taking the lead on the Vietnam Human Rights Bill, he has prevented it from coming to a vote. He claims that making an issue of Hanoi's repression would be counterproductive."

Kerry is also a fan of China’s communist dictatorship. “On May 19, 1994, five years after Tiananmen Square, Kerry spoke on the Senate floor against linking China's Most Favored Nation trade status to its human rights record,” Slate reported.

Kerry said: “China is the strongest military power in Asia. We need China's cooperation. We cannot afford to adopt a cold-war kind of policy that merely excludes and pushes China away.”

Limiting China's MFN status “would make us a bit player in a production of enormous proportions. We possess no stick, including MFN, which can force China to embrace internationally recognized human rights and freedoms.”

More extreme than Hillary and Kucinich: Among the White House wannabes, long-shot Rep. Dennis Kucinich has the reputation of holding the most left-wing congressional voting record. In fact, this “honor” goes to Kerry. According to American Conservative Union, Kerry has a lifetime rating of 6 percent, compared to 13 for the demolished Rep. Dick Gephardt, 14 for Sen. John Edwards, 15 for Kucinich and 19 for Sen. Joe Lieberman.

Sens. Hillary Clinton and Tom Daschle score 13 percent. Only the likes of Sens. Teddy Kennedy and Barbara Boxer have more left-wing records than Kerry. In contrast, Sen. John Breaux, one of the upper chamber’s few remaining moderate Democrats, has a 46.

Drive as I say, not as I do: Like Al Gore and other self-described environmentalists, Kerry has a radical agenda that would devastate the U.S. economy in favor of the likes of communist China, yet he enjoys the gas-guzzling modern conveniences that greens denounce. Kerry, a delegate to the environment-destroying Earth Summit in 1992 (where he met his future wife, left-wing activist Teresa Heinz, the multimillionaire widow of GOP Sen. John Heinz), the Kyoto climate talks in 1997 and the Hague Conference of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2000, has attacked President Bush for withdrawing from the anti-U.S. Kyoto Protocol. This treaty, which then-President Bill Clinton had signed, would impose severe restrictions on the United States but not Third World polluters that already enjoy huge trade surpluses with the U.S. However, although Kerry spouts the party line on anti-U.S. ecopolicy, he doesn’t like to practice what he preaches. Kerry was humiliated in April 2002 when photographed attending a rally against energy independence and then heading back to his SUV, the symbol of all that is evil to greens.

Bone to pick: Bush-hating conspiracy theorists find it alarming that the president, like his father, was a member of the secretive Skull and Bones society at Yale University. Another alum of this club: John Kerry.

Waffling on Iraq: Kerry has the tough job of wooing Howard Dean’s anti-war Democrats despite his support of the war in Iraq. His favorite tactic, claiming the president outfoxed him, doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. On “Meet the Press” in late August, Tim Russert played a tape of Kerry addressing the Senate in October 2002 with a hard-line speech declaring Iraq “capable of quickly producing weaponizing” of biological weapons that could be delivered against “the United States itself.”

Kerry insisted: “That is exactly the point I’m making. We were given this information by our intelligence community.”

However, as columnist Robert Novak noted, “as a senator, Kerry had access to the National Intelligence Estimate that was skeptical of Iraqi capability. Being tricky may no longer be as effective politically as it once was.”

No doubt Dean, Lieberman, Clark and other rivals will now use these and other details to do to Kerry what the Democrats did to Dean.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; antiamerica; hanoijane; johnkerry; kerry; vvaw
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This Guy is Clinton or Worse? Ops4 God BLess America!
1 posted on 01/21/2004 8:04:54 AM PST by OPS4
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To: OPS4
All lib/dems are frauds. This is just a synopsis of one, but they all hold this country in contempt, while embracing the very things that would destroy it.
2 posted on 01/21/2004 8:10:38 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: OPS4
This guy is deceptive just like Clinton. Kerry was the front runner all along and he wants to be perceived as the 'underdog.' I think the Democrat establishment knew he was going to be the frontrunner all along. They just wanted to get some interest to this race. I don't think it is a coincidence that they picked Boston as their convention site. He is anything but the underdog. He has huge amounts of his own money behind him and he will say anything to get elected. Very dangerous man.

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3 posted on 01/21/2004 8:12:47 AM PST by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
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Those evil American soldiers: Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 23, 1971, Kerry claimed that U.S. soldiers had “raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam.”

Either this is untrue or the Vietnamese don't carry a grudge because they love Americans today.

4 posted on 01/21/2004 8:13:12 AM PST by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN (I don't believe anything a Democrat says. Bill Clinton set the standard!)
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To: OPS4
Two other factoids.....He was Mikey Dukakis' Lt Governor...and we all know how that turned out....he also, like Clinton, has a rep for being unable to keep it zipped.....but his biggest problem will be Mrs. Ketchup..she's a whack job, and if he becoems the front-runner, or the nominee..she's gonna get a LOT of attention...My take is that the american people will not be comfortable with the idea of her as first lady....
5 posted on 01/21/2004 8:13:28 AM PST by ken5050
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To: ken5050
Once again, I think your assessment is spot on.
6 posted on 01/21/2004 8:16:13 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: OPS4
Sen. John McCain revealed that his North Vietnamese captors had used reports of Kerry-led protests to taunt him and his fellow prisoners. Retired General George S. Patton III angrily noted that Kerry’s actions had “given aid and comfort to the enemy.”

When he is challenged as to his traitorous actions, I expect Kerry to react as did Dr. Dean Monday night.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

7 posted on 01/21/2004 8:16:57 AM PST by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN (I don't believe anything a Democrat says. Bill Clinton set the standard!)
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To: OPS4
He is bad. Well, a basic DemoRat candidate.

Now, a similar light needs to be shown upon Edwards as he has a good chance of emerging from the gutter on top.

8 posted on 01/21/2004 8:18:27 AM PST by Ophiucus
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To: anniegetyourgun
Thanks for your kind words...the image of Laura Bush Vs. Teresa Ketchup has got to be a scary one for the dems...it hasn't hit them yet..but it will, soon...the First Lady is an unelected psot, true...but with women voters, especially......it'll make a big difference...
9 posted on 01/21/2004 8:21:12 AM PST by ken5050
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Amen, and thanks for posting this. I remember this VIVIDLY; I had the misfortune to be in Massachusetts at this time and was disgusted by Kerry then and now. I will do whatever I have to do to block him from becoming President. The other Vietnam vets I know feel similarly about him. He has now conveniently forgotten his VVAW days -- but a lot of us haven't.

10 posted on 01/21/2004 8:21:26 AM PST by Viet Vet in Augusta GA
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To: OPS4
Kerry HATES AMERICA, just like most of the liberal Democrats. He won't win a single ssouthern state as those voters properly understand the dangers of New England liberalism. What's odd, is that the people living in New England for the most part elect these liberals Democrats and republicans.
11 posted on 01/21/2004 8:22:07 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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It's about time somebody put together the real biography of John Kerry. All one hears nowadays is his "Vietnam hero" lines. Before this campaign is over, he will rival the exploits of Kennedy in PT-109. The Media is lapping it up.

Howard Dean may have been a draft dodger, but John Kerry was an active anti-war participant. He is now trying to cash in on his veteran status and bury his mountains of anti-American garbage under his much smaller mound of good deeds.

He needs to be widely exposed for the lying, backstabbing scum he really was and is. Forget the fact he is a flaming Liberal with a lifetime ACU rating of "6". He is much worse. He is as self-serving and opportunistic as bill clinton ever hoped to be!

12 posted on 01/21/2004 8:23:10 AM PST by Gritty ("A villain plots evil with deceit in his heart; disaster will overtake him in an instant"-Proverbs 6)
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To: OPS4

13 posted on 01/21/2004 8:26:36 AM PST by deport
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To: anniegetyourgun
All lib/dems are frauds. This is just a synopsis of one, but they all hold this country in contempt, while embracing the very things that would destroy it.

my sentiments as well. I might just add that the Massachusetts thing makes one even more suspect.

14 posted on 01/21/2004 8:29:33 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
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To: Viet Vet in Augusta GA
The fact that Kerry served and was wounded several times and then worked with VVAW will not hurt him with most of the electorate especially the Dems. The interesting thing is that Clark hates him and what he did, but cannot be vocally critical without outing himself as being srongly pro VNWar which would hurt his chances of landing the Dem nomination.

(And I want to see Clark skewered on Kosovo. It gets interesting.....)
15 posted on 01/21/2004 8:31:33 AM PST by Poincare
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To: OPS4
Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 23, 1971
John Kerry to US Senate in 1971: "We are not best and brightest" & "Mystical Communism"

Testimony before the Senate

16 posted on 01/21/2004 8:33:11 AM PST by deport
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To: ken5050
What does the Ketchup bitch look like?
17 posted on 01/21/2004 8:35:14 AM PST by Cobra64 (Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
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There are lots of pics around....she's older than he is, and looks like the face-lift is getting long in the tooth..she's foreign born, has a slight accent...and some really weird ideas...the point is..she won't wear well witht he american electorate..
18 posted on 01/21/2004 8:37:24 AM PST by ken5050
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To: Cobra64
Actually, she's fairly well preserved thanks to the Botox
treatments. She would probably be referred to by the media as
"colorful" or "outspoken". If you wanted to be nice you would say she is a character!
19 posted on 01/21/2004 8:47:17 AM PST by Andy'smom
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To: Cobra64
Actually, she's fairly well preserved thanks to the Botox
treatments. She would probably be referred to by the media as
"colorful" or "outspoken". If you wanted to be nice you would say she is a character!
20 posted on 01/21/2004 8:47:20 AM PST by Andy'smom
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