Posted on 02/17/2004 9:46:04 AM PST by truthandlife
These days former Vietnam war POW Sen. John McCain has nothing but praise for his fellow Vietnam veteran, Sen. John Kerry, the Democrats' current presidential front-runner.
But after he was released from the Hanoi Hilton in 1973, Sen. McCain publicly complained that testimony by Kerry and others before J. William Fullbright's Senate Foreign Relations Committee was "the most effective propaganda [my North Vietnamese captors] had to use against us."
"They used Senator Fullbright a great deal," McCain wrote in the May 14, 1973 issue of U.S. News & World Report. While he was languishing in a North Vietnamese prison cell, Kerry was telling the Fullbright Committee that U.S. soldiers were committing war crimes in Vietnam as a matter of course.
Sen. Ted Kennedy, a key Kerry presidential backer, was "quoted again and again" by jailers at the Hanoi Hilton, McCain said.
"Clark Clifford was another [North Vietnamese] favorite," the ex-POW told U.S. News, "right after he had been Secretary of Defense under President Johnson."
"When Ramsey Clark came over [my jailers] thought that was a great coup for their cause," McCain recalled. Months earlier Sen. Kerry had appeared with Clark at the April 1971 Washington, D.C. anti-war protest that showcased his testimony before the Fullbright Committee.
"All through this period," wrote McCain, his captors were "bombarding us with anti-war quotes from people in high places back in Washington. This was the most effective propaganda they had to use against us."
McCain biographer Paul Alexander chronicled the Arizona Republican's anger toward Kerry during their early careers in the Senate together.
"For many years McCain held Kerry's actions against him because, while McCain was a POW in the Hanoi Hilton, Kerry was organizing veterans back home in the U.S. to protest the war."
In his 2002 book, "Man of the People: the Life of John McCain," Alexander says that the two Vietnam vets finally reconciled in the early 1990s after having "a long - and at times emotional - conversation about Vietnam" during a mutual trip to Kuwait.
Later, Kerry sought to minimize the rift, telling Alexander, "Our differences occurred when we were kids, or at least close to being kids. It was a long time ago, and we both came back and realized that there were a lot of difficulties in the prosecution of that war."
NewsMax gratefully acknowledges the help of U.S. Veteran's Dispatch editor Ted Sampley for supplying McCain's revealing 1973 account in U.S. News.
They are an ELITE class, doncha know!
Then there is the Media also.....
It hadn't registered with me.
When I saw the links in the past with Kerry and the Kennedys and Teddy, the Porker, all types of warning bells went off.
I believe that Teddy groomed Kerry in Nam to start taking pictures and setting himself for his trip home. Then they worked together and enabled Kerry to become on one of the top war protestors.
They have been locked together for decades.
Phil do you have any of your graphic arts showing the two K's together to share with us?
Phil, thank you.
Ted Kennedy was moi Kerri's mentor. The medal strategy and the anti war movement were probably created by Kennedy's clan/cult. Then Kennedy brainwashed the simple mind of the young Lurch.
The filming and making himself a hero in Nam is right out the Jack Kennedy play book.
The medals and early out to become the key poster boy for the anti war movement was the Kennedy touch again. Since then he has been groomed as the successor of the Kennedy clan of thugs.
Even, McAinal complained about how hard the anti war speeches of Ted Kennedy were for him and other prisoners in Nam to handle.
If Moi Kerri is destroyed in this election, the Kennedy clan/Camelot/thug control of part of the rat party is history. That leaves control totally in the hands of the Clintoons.
McCain wants Rummy's job, do you think he has been promised that?
Big John has NO principles and is ONLY interested in his own fame. He CANNOT be trusted, under any circumstances. He is completely unprincipled and doesn't give a tinker's damn about the country.
If he had any more power than he already has, it would be a serious danger to the country. Bush had better NOT make him Sec'y of Defense in his 2nd term.
Actually we can thank the French for abandoning the democratic population they were ruling over and forcing
Henry Cabot Lodge to report to IKE that the red chinese were stirring up the communist forces to wipe them out.
JFK was ready to end the war and allready had the cease fire filled out when they shot him in Dallas.
Once again France drags into a war, by greed and cover ups.
Ops4 God BLess America!
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