Posted on 08/01/2004 8:07:26 AM PDT by BulletBobCo
The truth will out ~ Bump!
Oh don't post that photo without a disclaimer. It was created right here at FR as a semi joke. Kerry & Fonda were both at VVAW events, but this photo is a creation. Even though it was originally presented with a disclaimer here on FR, it got national exposure as a fraudulent photo and has damaged the credibility of real information about Kerry/Fonda connections.
As for the "shrapnel" in his leg which caused J boo-boo Kerry "years of pain", it is approximately 2 x 2 millimeter in size - i.e. about the size of this " quote sign. It was left in his leg because an incision to remove it would have caused more damage than the splinter itself. He is such a phoney.
"That's said to be a faked photo. Kerry wasn't there."
He sure was.
http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/graphics/VVAW05.jpg
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The photo in post #38 is fake, but Kerry was at the event as you indicate. There is another photo with Fonda in the foreground and Kerry sitting several rows behind her.
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http://qando.net/archives/002130.htm
This has some interesting facts exposing the "Great Liberal Lie" that Bush used family connections to jump over thousands of others to get a Texas ANG slot (kinda like the son of former Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen?)
This is another comprehensive overview of facts:
http://nationalreview.com/york/york200402180840.asp
Also, it would be useful to educate liberals about the mission of GWB's ANG unit under its NORAD tasking (which is when GWB served most of his time)
When people deride Bush for "defending the skies of Texas", few recognize that the USA was engaged in both Vietnam AND a far larger and more deadly war- the Cold War.
Few recognize that Soviet long-range BEAR bomber/missile capable aircraft were routinely conducting missions staged out of Russian bases, that reconnoitered the Eastern Coast of the USA, and recovered in Cuba.
Sometimes the Russian bombers made their way down our eastern coastline, testing our defenses and gathering intelligence about our cities and ports- then made a final loooping approach to Cuba out over the central/western Gulf of Mexico (presumably associated with Russian General War contingency planning to mine or attack coastal ports, Gulf energy facilities, and/or the Panama Canal).
Without the ANG units sitting NORAD alert in Texas. Alabama and Florida, the US "soft underbelly" would have been fully exposed to air attacks emanating from Russia or from air attacks or air insertions of special forces infiltrations launched from Cuba.
I'm sure this is not a comprehensive threat overview, but it does ridicule the ignorant statements that the ANG pilots sitting 24/7 alert duty were merely avoiding service in a REAL war.
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Photo of Kerry with Fonda enrages Vietnam veterans
By Stephen Dinan
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published February 11, 2004
A photograph of John Kerry together with Jane Fonda at an anti-Vietnam War rally in 1970 in Pennsylvania has surfaced on the Internet, angering veterans who say his association with her 34 years ago is a slap in the faces of Vietnam War veterans.
The photograph, taken at a Labor Day rally at Valley Forge, has been circulating across the Internet, particularly among veterans. It was posted Monday on the NewsMax.com Web site.
Mr. Kerry spoke at the 1970 rally, the culmination of a three-day protest hike from Moorestown, N.J., to Valley Forge, which featured a speech by Miss Fonda and a reading by Hollywood actor Donald Sutherland.
"When he stands up with Jane Fonda, someone that is so notorious and hated by veterans, and Tom Hayden, and a couple of others as well and supports their agenda," Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, California Republican, said yesterday, "it diminishes the service some of us almost gave our lives for, and the over 56,000 people that lost their lives --it slaps their families in the face."
Mr. Cunningham was the first pilot to qualify as an ace in the Vietnam War, by shooting down at least five enemy airplanes.
"I think it's his right, but it kind of upsets you," Mr. Cunningham said. "He had honorable service, but it's a shame someone would let politics rule their life, instead of their principles."
Mr. Kerry, a Navy lieutenant, commanded patrol boats on South Vietnamese rivers and was wounded three times. On his return to the United States, he turned against the war, and at the time of the Valley Forge rally, he was beginning to gain notice as one of the leaders of the organization Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
He went on, in 1984, to become a U.S. senator from Massachusetts and is now the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Mr. Kerry tells Democratic audiences at campaign appearances that he will be able to stand up to Mr. Bush on the issue. He frequently cites Mr. Bush's appearance on the deck of the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln as misleading voters.
"I know something about aircraft carriers for real," he says.
Rep. Sam Johnson, Texas Republican, who spent nearly seven years in a prisoner-of-war camp in Vietnam, said yesterday the photograph of Mr. Kerry with Miss Fonda will hurt him nevertheless.
"I think it symbolizes how two-faced he is, talking about his war reputation, which is questionable on the one hand, and then coming out against our veterans who were fighting over there on the other," Mr. Johnson said.
Mr. Johnson recalled that his North Vietnamese captors played recordings of Miss Fonda telling U.S. troops to give up the war. "Seeing this picture of Kerry with her at antiwar demonstrations in the United States just makes me want to throw up."
•Jerry Seper and Charles Hurt contributed to this report.
excellent post! Thanks for the ping Tonk!
Thanks for the Ping, Tonk!!!!:-)
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