The immediately controversial 'We need regime change here in the United States' comment last week by Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry should have focused attention on this congenital liar and cover-up artist.
While he smugly defends his comment, he tries to 'move ahead' and have us forget his previous transgressions:
1) His most famous - and first - appearance on the national stage came when he supposedly threw his Vietnam combat medals over the White House fence in a protest against the war. Guess what? Those were not his medals; they belonged to another Vietnam vet. Kerry kept his medals so that - like today - he can play both sides of the street.
2) Right out of the box as a presidential candidate, it 'comes out' that Kerry's real name isn't Kerry at all; his real name is Kohn. It seems his grandfather, an Austrian immigrant named Kohn, had changed the family name to Kerry back in the early 1900's; Senator Kerry claims never to have known he was Jewish until two months ago. Is this believable?
3) Kerry also claimed that he was in "perfect health" - even though he had already been diagnosed with prostate cancer. He finally had to admit his deception when announcing that he was having surgery.
4) Of course Kerry also engaged in the ago-old game of playing both sides on this war in Iraq. Last October he voted for the Congressional resolution authorizing President Bush to invade Iraq; now, speaking to Democratic primary voters - the one group that is overwhelmingly against the war - he proudly blasts Bush for the way he is conducting the diplomacy and the war.
5) All these lies and deceptions pale by comparison with his biggest act of dishonesty: his performance as Co-Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on POWs and MIAs back in the early 1990's. Along with Senator John McCain this was a classic case of a committee with a pre-determined agenda . For various and different reasons, both Kerry and McCain - along with the first Bush Administration which cooperated in the creation and activities of this committee - each had an underhanded and evil intention in their hijacking of this committee.
John Kerry wanted to have normalized relations with Hanoi so that real estate associates could do business in Vietnam and make money. What stood in the way of this? The lingering questions about US POWs still held against their will in Vietnam and Laos. So he took control of this committee and saw to it that the POW issue was crushed .
Kerry destroyed anyone who stood in his way. Staffers were removed who produced evidence proving that US POWs were still alive. POW advocacy groups who 'kept the issue alive' were threatened with legal prosecution ! (A prep school classmate of Kerry's, then an Assistant US Attorney General, said, "The leaders of these POW groups should be put in jail." That Kerry classmate? Present FBI Director Robert Mueller.)
John McCain's lies are too numerous to list here. Suffice to say that on the Senate POW Committee he also brutalized the truth and crushed the evidence of living POWs. Why?
Well, clearly McCain has an agenda to promote normalization with Hanoi. All sorts of allegations have been made over the years. Rather than get into them here, suffice to say that McCain is the single most vicious, negative, cynical political 'punk' I encountered in Washington DC. He treats people awfully; little wonder that 3 years ago when he ran for president virtually every GOP Senator - his colleagues who knew him best - endorsed G.W. Bush over McCain. In other words, to know McCain is to detest him.
What isn't being written these days is the very real possibility that these two --Kerry and McCain - may join together next year to run against G.W. Bush. Kerry, if he can grab the Democratic nomination, may ask McCain - the hero of so-called independent voters - to join his ticket.
Two liars on the same ticket. How fitting in an age of political and social decline. END OF TEXT
Well I hope this comment, written about a year ago isn't what the future holds.
Prairie