Posted on 08/17/2004 3:29:02 PM PDT by Pikamax
August 17, 2004 Posted at 2:35 PM, Pacific
The May 8, 2000 article from U.S. News & World report reproduced below begins by stating that John Kerry conducted clandestine forays into Cambodia during the Vietnam War to deliver weapons to anticommunist forces. Because that statement isn't a direct quote of Kerry, I contacted the reporter, Kevin Whitelaw, this afternoon. Whitelaw still works at U.S. News & World report where he covers foreign affairs and intelligence matters.
Hugh: "Did John Kerry tell you that he ran guns into Cambodia?"
Kevin Whitelaw: "That's exactly what he told me."
Mr. Whitelaw declined my invitation to appear on my radio program, explaining that he doesn't report on or comment on the presidential campaign.
Can we now agree that John Kerry has engaged in wild claims about his service? Since he told that tale to Mr. Whitelaw, who else has he told it to?
(Excerpt) Read more at hughhewitt.com ...
LOL!!
Yep!
At least he stuned his beeber!
Walter Mitty with a billion dollars.
I think Kerry actually said he had the RUNS when he went to Cambodia.
But you know, given the number of vacations he's taken on the campaign trail, it might just be worth checking out.
"I think Kerry actually said he had the RUNS when he went to Cambodia."
It must have been the "GUM" that gave him the "RUNS" when he went to Cambodia.
Kerry delivered them with his sleigh and invisible reindeer ..the guns were Christmas presents, but we are not sure for whom...
He had the runs, and bleeding gums while in Cambodia, which qualified him for a Purple Heart.
Maybe it was Bob Kerrey.
Well, this Kevin Whitelaw fella is OBVIOUSLY a Republican money man and a Bush operative.
John F(*cking) Kerry is a liberal-demokkkRAT liar. Period. Any questions?
"Got a new kid, eager as hell and, he tells us, very well connected in Boston, if you know what I mean? He is kinda, well, you know, liberal."
"He around or out on a mission?"
"Actually, he brought a movie camera and is out reenacting some yahoo stuff he did yesterday for his records."
"how much time he got on the boats?"
"About 3 months."
"Well connected, movie camera, pinko, 3 months, huh? Who else ya got?"
All you need do is watch the Cavett Show tapes to pick up on Traitor John's snotty, elitist attitude. Does anyone really believe that the CIA was so inept as to pick Kerry for anything important? Unless, of course, he and his crew were expendable.
Kerry brags (sorry, I don't have the source, but here is the google search page:)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=%22John+Kerry%22+Iran+Contra+Oliver+North&btnG=Google+Search
that he watched Ollie around the WH and *figured something was going on*. This led to Kerry being one of the Senators to break Iran Contra.
My opinion: Ollie was a real hero and in line for a political career. He was also handsome and well-liked, unlike Kerry. Kerry worked hard to bring Ollie down. However, when the time came for the Iran Contra hearings, Kerry lacked the juice to head the inquiry. As a consolation prize, he was made head of the MIA-POW hearings. In that capacity, he denigrated MIA/POW families, is said to have shredded documents and made sure that Vietnam got development deals that benefitted his cousin.
I would be very nervous about this as well, but for one major thing: the entire contemporary Democrat party has a post-modern brand. Post modernism is a reaction to modernism, with its pseudoscientific determinism. Dialect materialism, which allegedly dictated the development of communism from capitalism, was a product of modernism.
Modernism was very restrictive, since its pseudoscientific precepts, having their basis in Calvinistic double predestination, by definition denied free will and liberty. A ruling elite (the apparatchiks of a central committee plus celebrity and academic "intelligentsia") will govern the masses, who are unable to govern themselves. As a reaction to those ideas, the pseudoscience is rejected in favor of a philosophy of relational concepts. Having no absolutes morally or politically or philsophically, except the idea that there are no absolutes, post-modernism suggests that each person has its own perceptual reality.
A participant in that morass of relativism becomes unable to discern truth from self-deception. John Kerry is a good example of a very pathological manifestation, philosophically, of post-modern malaise. He honestly believes that with enough repetition, his reality can become the nation's.
...How many people had I already killed? There was those six that I know about for sure. Close enough to blow their last breath in my face. But this time it was an American and an officer. That wasn't supposed to make any difference to me, but it did. Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets in the Indy 500. I took the mission. What the hell else was I gonna do?...
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