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Posted on 08/17/2004 9:44:58 AM PDT by TheGeezer
From Hugh Hewitt's weblog:
Wow. Another Kerry whopper, this from U.S. News & World Reports of May 8, 2000. Here's the entire article.
Is a trial deal near? by Kevin Whitelaw
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at hughhewitt.com ...
Oh, I can't wait for his show tonight!!!
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Do you think this thing has legs?
So, Kerry says he provided weapons to anti-communist forces.
Didn't Kerry criticize Oliver North for exactly the same thing?
At first, I wondered. Now I think it's a millipede, and one with a very poisonous bite.
I think this one has stilts.
From what I see, it does...
It is the 800lb elephant sitting in the room. It is beyond having legs.......this one is going to tar the media also.
Original story cached at
http://www.keepmedia.com/pubs/USNewsWorldReport/2000/05/08/222612
A Mission to Cambodia
by Kevin Whitelaw | May 08 '00
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. When he returned last week, the mission was official, but dicey nonetheless. At the request of the United Nations, Kerry is trying to broker a compromise on how to try leaders of the former Khmer Rouge regime, whose late 1970s reign of terror claimed the lives of some 1.7 million Cambodians.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen wants to control any court looking into genocide charges, but U.S. and U.N. officials have demanded an international tribunal. "You can't have a situation where a justice system that many people view as inoperative will have the ability to trump the international community's consensus," says Kerry. Kerry is offering a compromise to allow for co-prosecutors and co-investigators. Both Cambodian and foreign judges would have to agree before an indictment could be thrown out. Hun Sen had initially accepted the proposal but ran into hard-line opposition from his political allies. Kerry anticipates a deal could be struck as early as this week.
Still, the parliament needs to go along, and many members of the ruling party (including Hun Sen) held low- or mid-level posts in the Khmer Rouge regime and might be reluctant to sign on. A legislative debate has been delayed until late May, ostensibly because of a termite infestation of the parliament building.
Who: Richard Nixon, H.R. Haldeman, John Erlichman
Where: The Oval Office
When: January 20, 1969, the first day of the Nixon presidency. Late afternoon
Haldeman: "Well, Mr. President, it's been a great day. Our time has come."
Erlichman: "Let me offer my congratulations, sir."
Haldeman: "You are Commander In Chief of the greatest military the world has ever known. You head the country with the strongest economy in history. What's the first order you would like to give, Mr. President."
Nixon: "Here's my first order, gentlemen, my top prority: send Lt. John F. Kerry into Cambodia. This is vital."
That is what they are asking us to believe.
Well, take this, the false claim about being Vice Chair and the story that Rush is telling about Kerry claiming in recent GQ interview to have spoken several times with Marlon Brando and have also taken a couple of suggestions from Marlon Brando about how to deal with the Contras, ....and my head is spinning.
Prairie
KERRY IS DELUSIONAL -- CALLING COLONEL KURTZ
Yeah, I'm listening too.
It's confusing to keep up w/ Kerry and all his stories.
If it was all true and he could prove it!
I know there's zero chance of that, I'm just saying it would be the suckiest thing in the history of politics if it happened.
Oliver North's awareness of how Congress abandoned the people of Southeast Asia to communism was a factor in the Iran-Contra affair that Senator Kerry is so concerned about. That was primarily an effort by North and his colleagues to funnel assistance to Nicaraguan freedom fighters, or Contras, when Congress, once again under the grip of liberal Democrats, tried to cut them off and solidify in power the regime of the Communist Sandinistas. Former National Security adviser Robert McFarlane explained that North's support of the Contras was shaped by his experience of watching the people of Vietnam betrayed by the Congress to the communists. He didn't want to see it happen again.
Kerry calls it Oliver North's "illegal aid network." But North, then a staffer on the National Security Council under President Reagan, had received legal advice from the President's Intelligence Oversight Board that congressional restrictions on aid to the Contras didn't cover the NSC staff. Thanks to North but not Kerry, the Contras survived, the Sandinistas were voted out of office, and Nicaragua has a democratic government today.
Given this statement how will he try OBL in the US since our system is viewed as so bad?
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