Posted on 08/02/2004 8:25:56 PM PDT by justme346
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To find a fair and well-documented biography of John F. Kerry, and discover who this Presidential candidate really is, go to this Wikipedia Encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry You will find that: Kerry came from German-speaking Jews, but the family concealed its background upon migrating to the United States, and raised the Kerry children as Catholics. Kerry professes to be a Catholic but is divorced and pro-abortion, positions from which his Diocese has distanced themselves. Kerry has a family history of flip-flopping and appearing to be something other than he is. John Kerry's maternal grandfather, James Grant Forbes, was born in then American occupied Shanghai, China, where the Forbes family of China and Boston accumulated a fortune in the opium and China trade. Kerry was born in France before migrating to the US. During his summers there, he became good friends with his first cousin Brice Lalonde, a future Socialist and Green Party leader in France who ran for president of France in 1981. This cousin influenced Kerry's anti-war protests after Kerry's early departure from Viet Nam. He went to a Swiss boarding school at age 11 while his family lived in Berlin. While his father was stationed at the U.S. Embassy in Oslo, Norway, Kerry was sent to Massachusetts to attend boarding school. He was raised in such fancy schools away from his parents. After an application for a twelve month deferment to study in Paris was denied, Kerry joined the United States Navy thinking it would be away from combat. This is the same John Kerry that criticizes Bush & Cheney for not going to war as he did! Initially, Kerry had hoped to keep a relatively safe distance from most of the fighting by obtaining an assignment as commander of a Swift Boat. From December 2, 1968 to February 28, 1969 Kerry received 3 purple hearts and his ticket home for flesh wounds that hardly kept him out of service. He spent a total of 4 months in Viet Nam. Due to questions regarding the nature of his wounds, the Kerry Campaign released his military records. These show second citations for a Silver Star and a Bronze Star were issued by John F. Lehman, who was Secretary of the Navy eleven years after Kerry's service. His story indicates he left his Swift Boat (a violation of Navy regulations), chasing a wounded Viet Cong who dashed behind a grass hut that was shot to pieces by twin 0.50 caliber machine guns. Reportedly, Kerry emptied his gun into this wounded VC (a war crime, if true), or into the dead body of the VC (a sham). At best this was not medal worthy, especially not a Silver Star - unless your family has political ties. At worst, this might be one of the atrocities young Kerry admitted to as a leader of VVAW. Within a week of his receiving his third purple heart, Kerry requested reassignment to the U.S. He was entitled to an early departure from Vietnam, subject to approval by the Bureau of Naval Personnel, according to then current regulations which said those who are wounded "three times, regardless of the nature of the wound or treatment required ... " This was usually not exercised by officers. Kerry spoke before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee. He informed the committee about the Vietnam Veterans Against the War's Winter Soldier Investigation, an event which took place from January 31 to February 2, 1971 in Detroit, Michigan. Kerry testified that he heard several veterans admit to, and he himself, committing war atrocities. Several of these testimonies were later proven false and that several of the men were not even veterans. From November 12 to 15, 1971, a VVAW meeting was held in Kansas City, Missouri, in which a member proposed that they escalate their tactics and assassinate pro-war politicians. Over the years, Kerry said that he did not remember attending the meeting in Kansas City, stating that he retired from the organization at the St. Louis meeting in July 1971. However, there are conflicting accounts, including newspaper articles, FBI reports, and witnesses who have different recollections. The following day, April 23, Kerry and other veterans threw medals and ribbons over a fence at the U.S. Capitol building to protest the war. This became a controversy when it was discovered that he has his service medals on display, suggesting that what he threw were not his own medals. Kerry later said that he “threw some medals back that belonged to some folks who asked me to throw them back for them." He had clearly lied on ABC News saying he threw his medals and ribbons, and recently Chatles Gibson, GMA Anchor, nailed him on that lie on national TV. Today, the combined net worth of the Kerry-Heinz fortune is reported to be between $199 million and $839 million, making Kerry the wealthiest U.S. senator. Kerry is wealthy in his own name, and is the beneficiary of at least four trusts inherited from Forbes family members, including his mother, who died in 2002. Both families have strong European ties and financial interests. What this encyclopedia doesn't tell you is that Kerry: Has secret support, which he admits but will not divulge, from European governments. Has the most liberal voting record of any Senator by several indices. Has flip-flopped on issues so that his positions are unintelligible. Has consistently voted against funding the military and intelligence agencies, and pushed for intelligence fragmentation that made predicting and preventing 9/11 impossible. Examples include: He voted to kill the Bradley Fighting Vehicle He voted to kill the M-1 Abrams Tank He voted to kill every Aircraft carrier laid down from 1988 He voted to kill the Aegis anti aircraft system He voted to Kill the F-15 strike eagle He voted to Kill the Block 60 F-16 He voted to Kill the P-3 Orion upgrade He voted to Kill the B-1 He voted to Kill the B-2 He voted to Kill the Patriot anti Missile system He voted to Kill the FA-18 He voted to Kill the B-2 He voted to Kill the F117 He voted to kill every military appropriation for the development and deployment of every weapons systems since 1988, including a bill for battle armor for our troops. It is most likely, with Sen. John Kerry as President and Commander in Chief of our Armed Services, that they will cease to function making it impossible for our country to protect itself. John Kerry voted to kill all anti-terrorism activities of each and every agency of the U.S. Government. He voted to cut the funding of the FBI by 60%, He voted to cut the funding for the CIA by 80%, He voted to cut the funding for the NSA by 80%. THEN, and this is abhorrent to almost every American Voter be you Democrat, Republican or Independent, he voted to increase OUR funding for UN operations by 800% Made the following statements about Iraq: "[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs." - Letter to President Clinton, signed by Sens. Carl Levin (D-MI), Tom Daschle (D-SD), John Kerry( D - MA), and others Oct. 9, 1998 "I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force-- if necessary-- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security." - Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Oct. 9, 2002 "Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And nowhe is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real" - Sen. John F. Kerry (D,MA), Jan. 23. 2003 Yet, Kerry now criticizes President Bush on going to war in Iraq and for suspecting Sadam had weapons of mass destruction as if Kerry never made the above statements. Ask yourself is THIS the person you want as President of these United States providing for the Common Defense of the Nation and be the Leader of the Free World ? Do we want this man who is so clearly influenced by Europeans as our Commander-in-Chief, especially at such a time as this? Dan Cross |
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I was born outside the United States - in Candada, where my family lived for twelve years because of my Father's employment. . .but since both my parents were American citizens; I was considered the same; (no and/if's or but's. ..).
Had an option for dual citizenship until I was twenty-one; where I then declared USA my citizenship.
So these parameters do extend beyond Military and into employment circumstances et al.
My understanding of the above is that when Kerry applied for 'Swift Boat' duty; it was considered 'relatively safe' as their patrols were not 'up close' and personal. . .as they soon became; not long after Kerry had signed up.
True or not; Kerry cannot escape an unattractive and self-serving profile in VietNam.
Kerry's four months in VietNam both complement and pale against his anti-America years post VietNam; protesting and denying this war and the soldiers who fought there.
The truth that matters is that Kerry has yet to come home to an America worth defending, by his own actions and and his own words.
Not being familiar with such things, can someone tell me whate it means that (if true) Kerry wasn't awarded some of his medals until 11 years later?
If your parents were BOTH American, you were automatically American.
This created problems for those Americans who were representatives of the US government, but who had foreign, non -American-citizen spouses, so sometime in the 1970s, I believe, the law was changed.
Now, if you are born overseas to an American citizen, that parent can register your birth with the American Embassy, and you are considered an American citizen.
I don't know the rules for children born in overseas US military hospitals, as to whether that was considered American soil or not. There are a lot of children born to American GIs who have foreign spouses. Someone here on FR must have the answer to that.
The article needs fact checking. It also left out Kerry's service prior to the swift boats on the USS Gridley.
Well, I know that my former brother-in-law was born of American citizens who were working for the defense department in Cuba and did not have to register for the draft because his parents never applied for his citizenship. He is the same age as John Kerry. Also, there was a recent flap in the news, that the local lefist legislators were touting, where a young woman, married to a GI in Germany returned with a nine month old child and was having trouble getting his citizenship papers because he was born off base.
Thanks for that odd little summary, but the link says that his mother was from France, not him.
The "member" was Scott Camil, currently a member of the Kerry presidential campaign.
Don't include me in your "come on people" comment.
I clearly stated that "natural born" includes a number of various possible eligibility test.
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