I sugested that if my children needed any follow up to Kerry ad his suggestion to "make the killing stop" was a quick perusal of the film "The Killing Fields...or a google search of Khmer Rouge
Posted on 03/28/2004 3:45:24 PM PST by Stultis
Started 6:30 EST, Interviewing Dick Cavett, now John O'Niell, by phone. Show will start soon.
Don't kid yourself on that score. Kerry made a decision to follow his ambition and devil take the hindmost.
I hope I can stay awake for another 20 minutes and see the replay.
I sugested that if my children needed any follow up to Kerry ad his suggestion to "make the killing stop" was a quick perusal of the film "The Killing Fields...or a google search of Khmer Rouge
Kerry Exploits Vets for Hanoi (I promised no more Kerry articles. This one is well written though)
www.insightmag.com ^ | By J. Michael Waller
Posted on 03/05/2004 1:56:11 PM CST by bogdanPolska12
For Kerry, politicizing the nation's war effort for partisan purposes was the right thing to do, in contrast to the violent revolutionary designs of colleagues who were out to destroy the system. Kerry didn't want to take down the establishment. He wanted to take it over. His aborted, monthlong 1970 congressional campaign was a victory for him politically, as it landed him on television's popular Dick Cavett Show, where he came to the attention of some of the central organizers of the antiwar/pro-Hanoi group known as Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW).VVAW was a numerically small part of the protest movement, but it was extremely influential through skillful political theater, the novelty of uniformed combat veterans joining the Vietniks, and a ruthless coalition-building strategy that forged partnerships with the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), its Trotskyite rival, the Socialist Workers Party, and a broad front that ranged from pacifists to supporters of the Black Panthers and other domestic terrorist groups.
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Kerry was the star of the political theater that historic week, angry that the law forbade political protests at veterans' graves in Arlington National Cemetery and angrier that President Richard Nixon enforced the law and that the Supreme Court upheld it. He led an illegal encampment of veterans and people who dressed as veterans on the Mall in downtown Washington and used the services of Ramsey Clark - a former Johnson administration attorney general who by that time openly was supporting the enemy in Hanoi - to fight a federal order to disperse. According to the Daily World, which published a page-one photo of Kerry passing Clark a note during the march, the protesters converged on the White House chanting, "One, Two, Three, Four - We Don't Want Your F- - - - - - War."
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He seemed to want it both ways in the protest movement. While claiming to "hate" the communists, he decried any attempt to marginalize them within the movement. Once, when questioned about his political alliance with supporters of the enemy, Kerry said that any attempts to push out Hanoi supporters might result "in seriously dividing and weakening the movement, and making it less effective."That didn't sit well with some VVAW members beyond the Washington Beltway...
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Yet for all his want of the spotlight, Kerry avoided public debates with other veterans. On seven occasions, by July 1971, he had refused to allow other veterans to challenge him publicly on television, even when CBS and NBC offered to host formal debates. He relented only when Dick Cavett, who had made him a national figure not long before, agreed to terms Kerry found advantageous. Even then, with Kerry holding all the advantages, Boston Globe political columnist David Nyhan observed, his "scrappy little" opponent, John O'Neill, "was all over Kerry like a terrier, keeping the star of the Foreign Relations Committee hearings ... off balance."
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Having lost the ['72 House of Rep.] primary in humiliation - his brother had been caught trying to wiretap an opponent's office[!!!] - Kerry went to Boston College Law School. Later, he was appointed assistant district attorney, then was elected lieutenant governor under Mike Dukakis in 1982. Two years later, he ran for the U.S. Senate - dusting off his veteran's credentials by standing in front of the black Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington to shoot a TV campaign ad, defying regulations that the memorial not be used for political purposes. The ad "was filmed illegally against the wishes of the National Park Service," according to the Boston Globe. Kerry authorized its broadcast anyway.
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Does that mean he was doing things to undermine our troops while he was in theatre???
That one jumped out at me!
You might be onto something. According to Wikipedia, Kerry turned against the war before he ever saw combat:
Kerry lost five friends in war, including his Yale classmate Richard Pershing who was killed in action on February 17, 1968. The death had a devastating impact on Kerry, who expressed his grief in a wrenching letter to his parents, writing: "If I do nothing more, and if I convince the others to do nothing more, it will be to give every effort we can to somehow make this a better world to live in and to end once and for all this willingness to expend ourselves in this stupid, endless self-distruction [sic]."
Say WHAT???
Kerry would be Angela Lansbury's Senator husband, I presume, who she was scheming to install in the oval office, by any means necessary? So who would be the brainwashed dupe? Did anyone flash Howard Dean a playing card before he went "YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWW!"?
WASHINGTON, DC, March 15, 2004 -- The Vietnamese government is using drug injections to torture minority ethnic Hmong Christians into abandoning their faith, according to new documentary evidence released today by Freedom House’s Center for Religious Freedom.
The Center has received a letter dated January 30 that details the plight of Hmong Christians who are forced to deny their faith in Na Ling Village, Song Ma District, Lai Chau Province in Northwest Vietnam. The letter, written by Zong Xiong Hang, a Hmong Christian, describes the use of painful drug injections administered by Vietnamese military personnel in order to force Hmong in Na Ling Village “to not believe in Jesus.” Those injected reported experiencing chest pains, headaches, and numbness in their limbs.
“Pain-inducing drug injections are a horrific violation of the integrity of the person,” said Center Director Nina Shea. “This shocking form of torture has been used in some of the world’s most sinister regimes, including Nazi Germany and the USSR.”
According to the letter, Christians in Na Ling Village also faced expulsion if they did not abandon their religious beliefs..........
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Nice that your daughter could visit the Potemkin Vietnam. Unfortunately, she didn't visit the real country, as it is.
Can we find out if JF Kerry's brother was convicted? Looks like Kerry's brother may have attempted the first 'Watergate' caper!
Wonder if Kerry's brother had anything to do with those missing FBI files on Kerry the CA writer just reported were missing.....LOL
I'm pretty sure every country that caters to tourism could be called a potemkin country. I don't dispute your information, and I'm not arguing moral equivalence, but there are much worse countries that are not communist. If you look at 25 year chunks of time rather than day by day, the trend is going to be away from totalitarianism.
That's going to be true in Muslim countries as well.
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