THE KERRY DOSSIER (post here anything you've uncovered on Kerry)

2/11/04 | FR INVESTIGATIVE TEAM

[ppaul]

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[JoJo Gunn]

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[Liz]

"My administration will confiscate every last gun in America."

[smith288]

Dude! This wasnt in a freakingnews contest was it? lol

[ppaul]

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[LowOiL]

Is that Real? If so, it may be the photo we have been hunting for...

[Liz]

We're gonna need these guys in the weeks ahead.

[GailA]

If it weren't for those big drug R & D mrs botox hanoi john wouldn't have the young looking face she has today, for that matter hanoi john wouldn't look so...er like death warmed over...hadn't you noticed how haggard he's starting to look?

[Liz]

Nice find.....shocking.

Would make a great "caption this." I'll just bet that traitorous creep Fonda.... with Kerry at her side aiding and abetting her .....isn't singing "God Bless America."

[MattMa]

I normally get stuff from his yahoo group "politicalparody" when he produces them.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

"I checked with the Archives at Yale and they told me they could not find any record of either speech. I find that hard to believe, but I have no other way of pursuing this."

Joe Klein interviewed Kerry in 2002, for the New Yorker.I found the interview here-
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/01/279284.shtml. Klein was also interested in Kerry's Class Oration-the one he actually delivered,but,the Kerry Staffers were unable to find a copy of it.
Until-Kerry opened his desk drawer,in his expensively and elegantly decorated office.
" Kerry began to rummage around his desk and eventually pulled out a manila folder.
"Oh my, look at this!" He held up a sheaf of yellowed, double-spaced, typewritten pages. It looked like an old college term paper, taken from a three-ring binder. "It's the original copy of my Class Oration. What on earth is it doing here?"

"He sat down again and studied the speech, transfixed. Then he began to read it aloud, curious, nostalgic, embarrassed by, and yet impressed with, his undergraduate eloquence. He read several pages. Worried looks passed between the two staff members who were in the room: Was he going to read the whole damn thing?"
"But the speech he gave, hastily rewritten at the last moment, was anything but traditional: it was a broad, passionate criticism of American foreign policy, including the war that he would soon be fighting."

"The speech was notable for its central thesis:
“The United States must . . . bring itself to understand that the policy of intervention”—against Communism—“that was right for Western Europe does not and cannot find the same application to the rest of the world.”

"In most emerging nations, the spectre of imperialist capitalism stirs as much fear and hatred as that of communism".

"Never in the last twenty years has the government of the United States been as isolated as it is today." Kerry was saying the same things in 1966,that he continues to say today.

Another interesting item from the article,was Kerry's mental state,after his first election loss.He was mute for 3 days-whether voluntary or elective,is unclear.

"He came to my home in New Hampshire that weekend," his friend George Butler, a documentary filmmaker who was then a freelance photographer, recalls. "He wouldn't say a word to anyone. He sat there Friday night and built an entire model ship from scratch. On Saturday, he and I climbed a mountain together. He still wasn't talking. ... He was the most despondent-looking human being I had ever seen."

[mware]

Vote in Senate 1985.. MX MISSILE - Vote to authorize $1.5 billion to purchase 21 MX missiles. Passed (55-45), 3/19/85. ACU supported passage.

John Kerry voted against it.

[mware]

Take a look at this one.

1985 Senate... ASAT TESTS - Kerry (D-MA) amendment to bar anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon tests against a target in space, unless the Soviet Union tests an ASAT. Rejected (35-51), 5/24/85.

ACU opposed the amendment.

[mass55th]

Thanks for your information. The link is bad though.

[mware]

1985 Senate SDI - Proximre (D-WI) amendment which would have slashed the 1986 authorization for the Strategic Defense Initiative from $2.96 to $1.9 billion. Rejected (38-57), 6/4/85. ACU opposed the amendment.

Kerry voted for it.

[mass55th]

Where the heck did you find that one?

[hardhead]

'Lurch' is the last hurrah for 60s flower chilluns. They know that if he don't win (he ain't) their 'movement' is finished.

[irgn]

Is that for real?

[mware]

1989 Senate

ASAT Testing -

Vote on a motion to table the Kerry (D-Mass.) amendment to bar U.S. tests against an object in space of the anti-satellite (ASAT) missile - provided the USSR doesn't test their own version of ASAT. Motion agreed to 55-43, 8/8/86. ACU supported the motion.

Kerry opposed the bill

[mware]

1989 Senate

Midgetman/MX Missile

- Vote on a motion to table an amendment that would have applied the same "survivability" criteria to future ICBM programs as is applied to SDI programs. The amendment would prohibit funds from being used to develop a small mobile intercontinental ballistic missile or for the deployment of the second 50 MX missiles unless this criteria was met. Motion passed 64-30, 8/8/86. ACU opposed the motion

Kerry voted for the motion.