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"Choose Your Friends Wisely"... Kerry & buddy Sen. Tom Harkin
www.iowapresidentialwatch.com ^ | 5/25/2004 | IPWGOP

Posted on 05/25/2004 11:53:58 AM PDT by IPWGOP

Choose your friends wisely

By: Roger Wm. Hughes

Sen. John Kerry needs to check out who he associates with a little better. He also might want to have Sen. Tom Harkin (R/IA) stop trying to defend the two of them for their support of Communist Daniel Ortega.

The Senators traveled to Managua, Nicaragua, in April 1985 to meet with Ortega in advance of a crucial vote in the U.S. Senate. Lawmakers were battling over proposed $14 million in U.S. aid to "Contra" guerillas seeking to overthrow Ortega's socialist government.

On their 1985 trip, a photo was taken of U.S. Sen. John Kerry shaking hands with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, while U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin looks on.

"Not First Time Democrats Have Aligned with Enemy," says the headline on the Rush Limbaugh website. An article in American Spectator slams Kerry's "limousine liberation theology" in dealing with Ortega and his political party, the Sandinistas.

Sen. Tom Harkin, Kerry’s defender, was the author of the "Harkin Amendment" which was the cornerstone of President Jimmy Carter’s failed Human Rights foreign policy. There is a memorable flip flop by Harkin in 1982, at a radio debate while running for reelection to the U.S. House of Representatives. Harkin, after having radio spots run against him saying that he voted to give money to Communist Vietnam, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, Communist Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, Fidel Castro’s Cuba and other Communist countries but failed to vote for any aide to pro American countries, said, "I have been wrong about the whole foreign aide business. From now on, I am going to vote against all foreign aide."

"What's the big deal?" Harkin asked about the bringing up of Kerry and his past traitorous behavior. "Those interested in using it to attack Kerry represent the "right-wing, kooky fringe," Harkin said.

Clearly Kerry’s penchant for aligning with those who have expressed a desire to weaken America -- like France and Germany -- has deep roots. Roots in places that align him with countries which were even more desirous of harming America than our current wayward allies.

 



TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: communists; contras; guerillas; harkin; kerry; nicagarau; ortega; photo; socialists
The author (Roger Wm. Hughes) of the above editorial is the Chairman of the Iowa Presidential Watch PAC, which runs www.iowapresidentialwatch.com
1 posted on 05/25/2004 11:54:03 AM PDT by IPWGOP
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To: IPWGOP

Well, yes, it's alarming and disgusting. But all the media supported the Communist Sandanistas at the time, and they would never embarrass Kerry by mentioning any of this.

As far as the media are concerned, the villain was President Reagan, for trying to help the Contras. Iran-Contra and all that, don't you know?


2 posted on 05/25/2004 11:58:47 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: IPWGOP
Those interested in using it to attack Kerry represent the "right-wing, kooky fringe," Harkin said

As opposed to the left-wing, kooky fringe of Harkin and Kerry?

3 posted on 05/25/2004 12:07:35 PM PDT by Corporate Law (<>< -- Xavier Basketball - Perennial Slayer of #1 Ranked Teams)
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To: IPWGOP
I got an email that Jacques Freggin` Kerry is going to choose Bob Kerrey as his running mate and that their theme song is going to be called "Kerry Kerrey" sung to the tune "Cherry Cherry" by Neil Diamond at their abomination of a convention. Hmmm. But what does it mean? I know Bubba Clintoons theme song was "Don`t stop thinking about tomorrow" which we now know meant procrastination against terror, but Cherry Cherry? What? It`s sounds sort of gay to me.

Kerry, Kerrey

sung to the tune of "Cherry Cherry" by Neil Diamond

Kerry loves me yes, yes he does Oh, the guys out of sight, yeah Says he loves me yes, yes he does Oh, gonna show me tonight, yeah

Chorus: Hey, he got the way to move me Kerry (he got the way to groove me) (he got the way to move me) Kerry baby

Alright

Tell your Mama girl I can't stay long We got things we gotta catch up on Mmm, I know you know what I'm sayin Can't stand still while the music is playin

Alright

Ain't got no right no, no you don't Ahh, to be so exciting Won't need bright lights no, no we won't Oh, gonna make our own lighting

Chorus: Hey, he got the way to move me Kerry (he got the way to groove me) Kerry baby (he got the way to move me) Alright (he got the way to groove me)

No, won't tell a soul where we gone to Girl we do whatever we want to Ahh, I love the way that you do me Kerry baby you really get to me

Repeat chorus to fade....

4 posted on 05/25/2004 12:15:07 PM PDT by stillnoprotestsagainstmuslims (I`m still waiting for the protests against terrorism.)
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To: IPWGOP
Harkin lied, claiming he'd flown fighters in Vietnam, when he'd flown transports in WESTPAC.

The latter is fine and illustrious service...unless savaged by the lies of some wanna-be...in this case...Senator.

5 posted on 05/25/2004 12:54:43 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: onedoug

Harkin claimed he went toe to toe with North Viet Migs. That was just one of his big fibs.


6 posted on 05/25/2004 12:58:56 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (STAGMIRE !)
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To: IPWGOP
Sen. Tom Harkin (R/IA)

That should read (D/IA)

Kerry and Harkin are both exposed for the pukes they are by B.G. Burkett in "Stolen Valor".

7 posted on 05/25/2004 3:01:44 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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To: A.A. Cunningham
,i>V

gawd, I can't BELIEVE I did that... thanks for the help!

8 posted on 05/25/2004 4:52:29 PM PDT by IPWGOP ('tooning the truth)
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To: IPWGOP; Mia T; Alamo-Girl; LindaSOG; campfollower; PhilDragoo; Americanwolf; Little Bill

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...After attending the Jesuits' Loyola University of Los Angeles during the early 1960's...

..."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer went on to fight against Communism in the 1st Major Battle of the Vietnam War. A battle accurately depicted by RANDALL WALLACE's outstanding Motion Picture "WE WERE SOLDIERS" starring MEL GIBSON.

http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm
(Photos)


...After attending the Jesuits' Loyola University of Los Angeles during the early 1960's...

...TONY COELHO went on to personally engineer Congress' Cut-Off of U.S. Funding for the CONTRA's who were fighting against Castro-Backed Communists trying to take over Central America during the early 1980's.


Now who would'a thunk..?


See:


MEL's -PASSION- sparked by -WE WERE SOLDIERS-

http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=39081

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9 posted on 05/25/2004 6:48:24 PM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE (Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.LZXRAY.com)
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To: ALOHA RONNIE

Thanks for the ping!


10 posted on 05/25/2004 9:02:39 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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