and the hits just keep right on coming!!!
Posted on 08/17/2004 9:44:58 AM PDT by TheGeezer
Sen. John Kerry made his first forays into Cambodia during the Vietnam War as a Navy lieutenant on clandestine missions to deliver weapons to anticommunist forces.
And, this from research:
Kerry calls it Oliver North's "illegal aid network."
How is the Kerry campaign going to spin this? Who will they send out as spokesman?
Kerry, a junior grade officer, did all this in 4 months without the knowledge of his commanding officer? This is getting really funny.
On Kerry's campaign website, the Bay State's junior senator claims he deserves credit for "holding Oliver North accountable and exposing the fraud and abuse at the heart of the BCCI scandal." In speeches and interviews, he goes even further -- alleging that he "blew the whistle" on my "illegal activities" in support of the Nicaraguan Contras. It's great fodder for the political left and hard-core radicals. It might even leave Ivy League professors panting. There is only one problem: It's not true.
John Kerry wasn't even on the so-called bipartisan congressional committee that spent months investigating the so-called Iran-Contra affair. He never asked me, or any of us involved in supporting the Nicaraguan democratic resistance, a single question. At no time did he question me or anyone else I worked with about our efforts to rescue Americans from dungeons in Beirut. He says he held me accountable? How? When? Where?
Perhaps one of the eager newshounds panting after Kerry will ask him. And maybe Kerry -- or more likely someone on his extensive campaign staff -- will produce some convoluted answers. They may even cite some subcommittee hearings that Kerry held months after the close of the official investigation. His little witch hunt eventually did publish a report that was so incredibly biased as to give the word "slander" an inadequate definition.
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More likely, the masters of the mainstream media salivating over Kerry will give him yet another free pass on these questions -- like so many others. Unlike President Bush, who has now laid bare his entire record of military service, Kerry has apparently never had to do so. This leads inevitably to the kind of confused hyperbole in the articles attached to the Kerry campaign website.
Kerry and his cronies in the Democratic Party have made Vietnam an issue in this campaign. They have slandered Bush for his service during the war. Until Kerry truthfully answers the questions above -- and a whole lot more about his actions during the war -- many of us are going to wonder what the middle initial "F" in John F. Kerry stands for. Is it "Fiction"? Or is it simply "False"?
Botoxed brain, got rid of the wrinkles in the gray matter.
THERE'S JUST TOO MANY
LSM, you are looking pretty silly.
I almost want to send the LSM some of the threads here and let them know who does RESEARCH.
He didn't just criticize Ollie .. Kerry went after Ollie
I was in and out of the car and must have missed a very funny segment from Rush. So Kerry actually met with and took advice from Marlon Marblemouth Brando? LOLOLOL
According to O'Neill there are 50 separate instances over the years where Kerry mentioned being in Cambodia. Five-oh!
Lie: John Kerry claimed he was Intel Vice Chairman [Bob KerrEy was; John Kerry was not].
Lie: John Kerry claimed he cast deciding vote to pass Bill Clinton's 1993 Jobs Bill/Economics Package [Bob Kerrey cast that vote; John Kerry did not].
Another lie?: John Kerry wasn't even on the so-called bipartisan congressional committee that spent months investigating the so-called Iran-Contra affair.
Lie: Christmas in Cambodia.
Lie: Nixon ordered secret troops into Cambodia in 1968.
The list is growing faster than Pinocchio's nose.
Lie: John Kerry claimed he was Intel Vice Chairman [Bob KerrEy was; John Kerry was not].
Lie: John Kerry claimed he cast deciding vote to pass Bill Clinton's 1993 Jobs Bill/Economics Package [Bob Kerrey cast that vote; John Kerry did not].
Another lie?: John Kerry wasn't even on the so-called bipartisan congressional committee that spent months investigating the so-called Iran-Contra affair.
Lie: Christmas in Cambodia.
Lie: Nixon ordered secret troops into Cambodia in 1968.
The list is growing faster than Pinocchio's nose.
and the hits just keep right on coming!!!
It sure will. The only escape is for Kerry to resign under other pretenses, like health, before the reality of con-man Kerry (with con-enabling media) registers with the public.
If the polls show Kerry at 40%, say three weeks from now, if it becomes clear that he cannot possibly win, I expect the DNC to pull his plug (again, false pretense is always a possibility). It's perfectly legal.
Tom do me a favor......post those in a stand alone thread .....ask other freepers to add to what you posted .....see how many we can come up with.
What anti-Communist forces? There were standard SE Asian endemic Communist insurgents (Khymer Rouge), pretty well powerless, and being Chinese backed, didn't get on with the North Vietnamese occupying Eastern Cambodia.
The only "anti-Communists" around were Prince Sihanouk's, who were the actual Government. They could have been suppiled by USAF transport flights to Phnom Pen (Or more realistically Air America to some remote airfields)
Wow!
Good cartoon...but I'd have added press passes to some of those helpers.
It depends on which voice in his head has the podium at any given moment.
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