John Kerry : Threat of Communism Is Exaggerated

Statement of John Kerry to US Senate ^ | February 10, 2004 | nwrep

[nwrep]

To John Kerry, any threat to the United States is an exaggeration. He said so about terrorism in a debate last month, and little has apparently changed in his understanding of the nature of foreign threats to this country over the course of three decades.

During his infamous Senate testimony in 1971, young John F(onda) Kerry shows the same dismissive tone about the threat of communism. Read the excerpts below:

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...It is my opinion that the United States is still reacting in very much the 1945 mood and postwar cold-war period when we reacted to the forces which were at work in World War II and came out of it with this paranoia about the Russians and how the world was going to be divided up between the super powers, and the foreign policy of John Foster Dulles which was responsible for the created of the SEATO treaty, which was, in fact, a direct reaction to this so-called Communist monolith. And I think we are reacting under cold-war precepts which are no longer applicable.

I say that because so long as we have the kind of strike force we have, and I am not party to the secret statistics which you gentlemen have here, but as long as we have the ones which we of the public know we have, I think we have a strike force of such capability and I think we have a strike force simply in our Polaris submarines, in the 62 or some Polaris submarines, which are constantly roaming around under the sea. And I know as a Navy man that underwater detection is the hardest kind in the world, and they have not perfected it, that we have the ability to destroy the human race. Why do we have to, therefore, consider and keep considering threats?

Therefore, I think it is ridiculous to assume we have to play this power game based on total warfare. I think there will be guerrilla wars and I think we must have a capability to fight those. And we may have to fight them somewhere based on legitimate threats, but we must learn, in this country, how to define those threats and that is what I would say to the question of world peace. I think it is bogus, totally artificial. There is no threat. The Communists are not about to take over our McDonald hamburger stands.

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Do we want to elect a Chief Executive who has consistently disaplayed a lack of understanding of Communism and Terrorism, the last two great ideological enemies of the United States?

[Auntie Dem]

"...The domino theory was a load of bunk,..."

Whew, that's a relief, you mean Pol Pot DIDN'T kill all those people after all?

I am a little rusty on my geopolitical knowledge base, so could you remind me what kind of governments are running Vietnam's neighboring countries?

[Stallone]

Kommie Kerry

Kerry never met a Kommie he didn't love. KERRY-FONDA 2004

[LisaMalia]

[goldstategop]

Sure... and to the French looking (and thinking) Jean F. Cheri, Al Qaeda is not yet ready to detonate a nuclear warhead in an American city. After all, the threat of Islamofascist terrorism is greatly exagerrated.

[geege]

Q - What will Kerry do if/when we are attacked????

A - Protest

[Stallone]

Good for you.

Kommie Kerry is a traitor to his country.

In time of war, this man is the enemy's best friend.

[piasa]

If we'd just waited it out it would have consumed our allies and then us, then it would fall.

We would have had a hard time maintaining our economy one our trading partners were absorbed, our access to vital resources denied, and freedom of the seas lost.

They were out to conquer the planet, not coexist with us.

As millions upon millions of dead victims who "waited it out" can attest.

[piasa]

In Mr Henry Kissinger's new book, Ending The Vietnam War, he points out that the US could not simply abandon South Vietnam after four presidents of both political parties had declared that its survival was crucial to American national security. When America did leave, the international climate was affected. As Mr Kissinger notes, within six months of Saigon's fall, a Cuban expeditionary force appeared in Angola. Soviet and Cuban adventurism across the Third World picked up substantially. Three years later, the Shah of Iran was toppled. Then US diplomats were taken hostage in Teheran. Of course, local politics contributed, but Mr Kissinger wonders how much these developments were influenced by the fact that America's enemies were increasingly convinced 'that the wave of history was on their side'. - "US must use its sword, or else..., " by FAREED ZAKARIA, Straights Times (Singapore) , 2-10-03

[CyberAnt]

I think you're right. I remember reading that too .. Kerry getting out early (but I don't recall the reason).

Wasn't Vietnam over when Bush got out ..?? I mean .. if there was no need for his flights .. and he was going to Harvard Business school .. no reason not to allow him to out early. I know Guard regulations are different today, but then things were very relaxed.

It could have been the same for Kerry .. I don't know what the situation was for him.

[piasa]

There was a rule in the navy where if you had received three purple hearst you could request to go stateside. It was seldom used since as one person put it, most people didn't get live to get two, much less three.

[dennisw]

Didn't Kerry get out early to run for election? Didn't Kerry use a special regulation to get the hell out of Vietnam?

Once Kerry got home a bit early (due to being wounded three times) he protested with his Vietnam Veterans Against the War outfit. After about two years of this he went to law school. Out of law school he worked for the Middlesex County prosecutors office. From there he went to lieutenant governor under Mike Dukakis. Then to the US Senate. 

Most important to me is he's been getting a government paycheck for 30 years straight and this warps his perspective. He knows jack about the private sector, the business world which pays the taxes that has paid his salary for 30 years. Talk about belonging to the party of government!!! (The Democrats)

[risk]

Just speechless, Ronnie.

[Coop]

I've already got my John Kerry bumper sticker!

[FairOpinion]

“I’m an internationalist,” Kerry told The Crimson in 1970. “I’d like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.”

"Kerry said he wanted “to almost eliminate CIA activity. "

from his interview with the Harvard Crimson.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1075893/posts

[jcb8199]

Ah, I see the Republican slime machine has begun churning. Your lies are double-plus ungood...


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[MegaSilver]

Yup. Liberals have been avoiding a number of questions when speaking for Kerry. All they do is accuse us of "questioning Kerry's patriotism," and when asked, refuse to cite *who* has questioned his patriotism.

Perhaps they have nothing to go on...

[Paul Ross]

The factor which should be the real killer, is that Kerry is taking Chinese money for his campaign...just like Clinton.

[dalebert]

Spoken like a true communist. The only one who is supposed to be rich is Kerry.

[dalebert]

Gee.......they even look alike.