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I Know John Kerry
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| 04/07/07
| CPT Scott Campbell
Posted on 04/07/2004 10:00:48 AM PDT by wadeintothem
On various occasions during 1970 the questionable and harmful behavior of a former junior navy officer came to the attention of our FBI office. I soon learned that the person was John F. Kerry. Kerry's conduct certainly was unbecoming of a former officer or anyone who cared about his fellow countrymen committed to battle against an enemy. I watched Kerry's activities with great interest, trying to determine what could cause such a major change in conduct. How could he profess to be a leader responsible for the welfare and morale of those he led and a few months later seriously undermine the welfare and morale of the entire military in Viet Nam?
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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; kerry; scottcampbell; vietnam
I have requested from the author a follow-up article. I hope to get more info from the CPT.
To: wadeintothem
Thanks. I will have to bookmark this.
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04/07/2004 10:03:12 AM PDT
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posted on
04/07/2004 10:03:35 AM PDT
by
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(If Woody had gone straight to the police, this would never have happened!)
To: wadeintothem
I don't have time to post this, but it is from Frontpage Magazine.
Kerry and the Communists
We have been wondering how the major media would handle Senator John Kerrys cordial relations with the communist Sandinistas who once ruled Nicaragua. Now we have our answer. The March 21st Washington Post ran a story by Glenn Kessler declaring that Kerry was merely engaging with them. The whole theme of the article was that Kerrys foreign policy was one of engagement. This story has got to go down in history as a classic in terms of whitewashing a candidates record.
Kerry adamantly opposed President Reagans policy of preventing a communist takeover of Central America. Evidence showed that communist Cuba and the then-Soviet Union were coordinating a massive assault on the Western hemisphere. Reagan had set them back with the liberation of Grenada and the overthrow of a communist gang there. He was also supporting a resistance movement, known as the Contras, opposing the communist Sandinistas who had taken control of Nicaragua.
In an article in the American Spectator, entitled, The Bolshevik in Kerry, George Neumayr wrote, Kerrys limousine liberation theology led him into one of the most embarrassing moments of his early Senate careerhis disastrous Neville Chamberlain-style diplomacy with Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega. Shortly after becoming a Senator, Kerry took off for Nicaragua with Tom Harkin on a free-lancing fact-finding tour, the purpose of which was to stymie congressional support for the Contras by finding that the Sandinistas weren't such bad guys after all.
Kerry said at the time, We believe this is a wonderful opening for a peaceful settlement without having to militarize the region. The real issue is: Is this administration going to overthrow the government of the Sandinistas no matter what they do? Neumayr notes that Reagan Secretary of State George Shultz was so flabbergasted by Kerrys shilling for Ortega that he denounced Kerry publicly for dealing with the communists and letting himself be used.
But thats not how Glenn Kessler of the Post saw it. Over the years, he wrote, Kerry has pushed engagement with the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, the communists in Vietnam and the mullahs who run Iran. Kessler wrote that, Early in his Senate career, in 1985, he riled the Reagan administration by traveling to Nicaragua to meet with the Sandinista government, saying that we've got to create a climate of trust. Kessler said that Kerry had questioned U.S. support for the contras in Nicaragua in the 1980s.
Thats how Kessler sanitized a Kerry policy of appeasing the communists in Nicaragua. If we had followed Kerrys advice, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala and perhaps even Mexico might be communist today. But no thanks to Kerry, pressure from the Contras forced the Sandinistas to hold free elections, which they lost. As a result, the communist insurgency in El Salvador collapsed and assumed the role of a political opposition party. On March 21, that party, led by veteran communist Schafik Handal, lost an election for the presidency. He got about 34 percent of the vote, compared to 58 percent for the conservative. Reagan was right, Kerry was wrong.
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posted on
04/07/2004 10:05:30 AM PDT
by
Eva
To: RhoTheta; Eb Wilson
Ping.
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posted on
04/07/2004 10:07:31 AM PDT
by
Egon
(Yo, PETA: Salad = Food of my Food! Feel free to stumble into a pigpen, so I can eat you too!)
To: wadeintothem
Kerry's conduct certainly was unbecoming of a former officer or anyone who cared about his fellow countrymen committed to battle against an enemy.
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure John Kerry was never in the military. I'd certainly have heard of it by now if he was...
Owl_Eagle
Guns Before Butter.
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posted on
04/07/2004 10:07:32 AM PDT
by
End Times Sentinel
("I AIN'T GOT TIME FO' YO' JIBBA JABBA, FOOL!!!"~ Mr. T.)
To: wadeintothem
What a find. I love this web page - my lib friends will really hate it.
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posted on
04/07/2004 10:12:09 AM PDT
by
seenenuf
(Progressives are a threat to my children!)
Comment #8 Removed by Moderator
To: Egon
I don't think we want this guy as President of anything.
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posted on
04/07/2004 10:15:04 AM PDT
by
freekitty
To: wadeintothem; diotima; backhoe
John Kerry article by a Vietnam vet.FYI
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posted on
04/07/2004 10:21:35 AM PDT
by
MEG33
(John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)
To: wadeintothem; MeekOneGOP; backhoe; doug from upland
ping
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posted on
04/07/2004 11:06:52 AM PDT
by
GailA
(Kerry I'm for the death penalty for terrorist, but I'll declare a moratorium on the death penalty)
To: Flubber
The power of the Rat party. . .Rat? Did you say rat?
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posted on
04/07/2004 11:09:43 AM PDT
by
Mike Bates
(Artist Formerly Known as mikeb704.)
To: wadeintothem
To: GailA; wadeintothem; Happy2BMe; devolve; yall
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posted on
04/07/2004 11:34:26 AM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
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To: MEG33
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posted on
04/07/2004 3:28:31 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the TrackBall into the Sunset...)
To: Mike Bates
This is an insult to an intelligent rodent AKA Rattus Norvegicus.
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posted on
04/07/2004 4:54:22 PM PDT
by
Knute
To: wadeintothem
From the article:
On various occasions during 1970 the questionable and harmful behavior of a former junior navy officer...
If I'm not mistaken, J F'n kerry hadn't yet become a former officer in 1970. I can't recall the year that he resigned his commission but I'm quite certain that it was well after 1970.
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posted on
04/07/2004 5:08:47 PM PDT
by
Bob
To: Bob
According this this info:
Fr Link at post #35, J F'n kerry didn't resign his commission until 1978.
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posted on
04/07/2004 5:23:52 PM PDT
by
Bob
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