| BOND, JAMES BOND! |
Oh, I can't wait for his show tonight!!!
| BOND, JAMES BOND! |
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?
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."
KERRY IS DELUSIONAL -- CALLING COLONEL KURTZ
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.
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"?
According to O'Neill there are 50 separate instances over the years where Kerry mentioned being in Cambodia. Five-oh!
and the hits just keep right on coming!!!George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent
To everyone he meets he stays a stranger
With every move he makes
Another chance he takes...
If he has no memory of this event, what is his justification for turning on his crewmates and joining the VVAW? Or am I "misremembering" his statement that Christmas in Cambodia, where he was fired upon by his South Vietnamese allies, was the turning point that caused him to reassess his devotion to duty?
Hugh has the best show on radio!
It's still up on his web site.
http://blog.johnkerry.com/rapidresponse/archives/002455.html
It's a long page, so ctrl-f and search on the word "vice".