Posted on 02/10/2004 7:02:16 AM PST by truthandlife
MSNBC "Hardball" host and longtime Democrat Chris Matthews said Tuesday that a photo showing Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry protesting the Vietnam war with "Hanoi" Jane Fonda is a real problem for his party's top candidate.
While offering sharp criticism of President Bush for not serving in Vietnam, Matthews told radio host Don Imus Tuesday morning, "You've got the Jane Fonda problem on the other side. The thing with her is, she was on the other side - she was on Hanoi's side during that war.
"And I'll tell you," Matthews continued, "everybody I knew, including me, who was against the war - I wouldn't have anything to do with a person who supported Hanoi."
Kerry, then head of the radical anti-war group Vietnam Veterans Against the War, worked closely with Fonda on two war protests; a Sept. 1970 rally in Valley Forge, Penn., where Fonda and Kerry spoke from the back of the same pick-up truck. And a Jan. 1971 protest they called "The Winter Solider Investigation," where fabricated testimony of U.S. war atrocities was presented.
Asked about the NewsMax.com photo showing Sen. Kerry protesting the war with "Hanoi" Jane at Valley Forge, Matthews observed, "That will be in the Republican [campaign] ads."
I agree! The Jane Fonda photo might just mean he wanted to be around a famous "babe", but I'd like to see him confronted with his 1971 Senate Testimony:
Statement of Mr. John Kerry
...I am not here as John Kerry. I am here as one member of the group of 1,000 which is a small representation of a very much larger group of veterans in this country, and were it possible for all of them to sit at this table they would be here and have the same kind of testimony....
WINTER SOLDIER INVESTIGATION
I would like to talk, representing all those veterans, and say that several months ago in Detroit, we had an investigation at which over 150 honorably discharged and many very highly decorated veterans testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia, not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command....
They told the stories at times they had personally 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 in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.
http://www.richmond.edu/~ebolt/history398/JohnKerryTestimony.html
No one has confronted him with the graphic, specific, atrocities he described as "not isolated incidents".
"We are also here to ask, and we are here to ask vehemently, where are the leaders of our country? Where is the leadership? We are here to ask where are McNamara, Rostow, Bundy, Gilpatric, and so many others."
This is one of the reasons that people on FR distrust Newsmax.
That photo was found by people on FR and yet here Newxmax claims THEY published it first.
Here is the NewsMax story:
Reprinted from NewsMax.com
Sunday, Feb. 8, 2004 2:46 PM EST
The Photo Dems Fear Most: Kerry with 'Hanoi Jane'
Democratic Party officials are hoping that no photographs exist of a well-covered Vietnam War protest where soldier-hating actress Jane Fonda and Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry, then and up-and-coming member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, railed against U.S. war policy from the back of the same pick-up truck.
And here is exactly where that photo was found!
The first photo had "Corbin" superimposed over it. The subsequent ones were "photo shopped" or whatever.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, you can fool .......
To remove the Corbis, or to add in Kerry?
Exactly the point.
It isn't your fathers camers shop anymore.
This election is too important to be caught with "our pants down".
Pssssst ... you wanna to buy a peekshur of my seester?
Okay, okay!
cameras?
Hey Rho, got anymore coffee?
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