An open letter to Senator John F. Kerry: (from a Green Beret)

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[Chieftain]

I have been on that street!

[Jen]

My blood is boiling too, Victoria! I'm going to work from the office a few days a week starting Thursday - those lefty reporters better watch out! ;-)

[arasina]

I bet you have, Chieftain! Isn't that a great photo?

[Victoria Delsoul]

Woohoo! Good for you, Jen.

[Jen]

Thanks for what YOU are doing to help the Swifties! And thanks for serving in the Marine Corps. Nice to meet you.

[Jen]

You're welcome.

[Jen]

Blood money ..the color of ketchup....

So true. Thanks for your comments.

[Jen]

Oooooh! Something to share with my lefty co-workers (journalists)! Thanks. Saving and printing now.

[Jen]

I appreciate the bump.

[Jen]

Hi there young one and welcome to FR. Young FReepers give me hope for the future of our country! :)

[sonofatpatcher2]

I've had over 300 hit on the website & about 40 positive replies since I started posting this Campaign Button this evening...

[Jen]

Yes, very powerful.

[newzhawk]

this tidbit about John Kerry's cousin is in an old American Spectator article at the beginning of Clintons term when he pushed to normalize relations with Vietnam- I will have to go find it- anyone have it handy ??

[FredZarguna]

I thought that Mac Owens did a piece on this, but can't find it. (National Review Online has no search capability). However, I did recall Jeff Jacoby did a recent piece. Worth a read.

[Mr. Keys]

Kerry is lower than worm s**t. Everything about him is phony. He wants to make Viet Nam his only issue. Good. Viet Nam will destroy him. These honorable vets will once again defend America. They have long memories.

[PGalt]

Thanks for the post.

[pyx]

Anyone heard of this?

Click here. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1092426/posts

The source is from http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/nj04_smith/prnam1.htm

In short its a press release of what happened in Congress.

It says;QUOTE Smith introduced similar legislation during the last Congress. That bill passed the House by a vote of 410-1 but died in the Senate because Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts placed a hold on the bill and prevented it from being brought to the floor for a vote. UNQUOTE


But America is still fast asleep. Because so many Americans still completely underestimate the depths of depravity the LEFT will go in its quest to gain power, imo. The LEFT (using various names and labels) slaughtered about 120 MILLION human beings in various wars and scourges last century. That is but a drop in the bucket to the lengths they are prepared to go to have COMPLETE control over you and me.

The LEFT will attempt to do it with lies and deceit. Along with incrementalism and the redefining of the meanings of basic words so as to molify and cajoule their victims into surrender.

After all, their bottom dwelling apparachiks are trained to dream about the same meglomanical horsesh!t their so called "leaders" believe -- that they will be carried about on the shoulders of the masses they claim to liberate. Yup, the LEFT will "liberate" you... even if they have to kill you.

[johncbrown]

I hold many hard-line republican beliefs, yet I am just as concerned by George Bush as I am with John Kerry.

This was a powerful letter detailing the important legacy of the thousands of Vietnam veterans who served with honor. I do not believe John Kerry to be a great man - far from it.

However, when I see General Anthony Zinni on TV saying that Iraq war was not an urgent matter, I mistrust our current president as well. General Zinni, an absolutely legendary Marine, echoes the opinion of many Americans that the Iraq was, while it may have been inevitable, was not urgent.

The attacks of 2001 posed our current president with a challenge completely unique in US history. His urgency to enter the war can be seen as a reaction to those attacks or an outgrowth of his personal ideology of pre-emptive strikes, democracy by force, etc...

Was anyone else disturbed to see so much growth in the size of our government? The tax cuts we so prize are going to disappear if we invest in 'shadow governments' and new beaureaus in the cabinet...

I am proud to say that I believe in a strong military, a strong stance of leadership, and a smaller government. As a result, I wish I didn't have to choose between these candidates. I just don't trust either of them at all.

[El Gato]

HR2883 of the 107th Congress (2001-2002) was The Intelligence authorization bill. However HR2368 was the Vietnam Human Rights Bill, as was HR2833. The later was the one passed by 410-1. the one being Congressman Paul. Congress Oxley later said he would have voted for the bill if not "unavoidably absent" when the vote was held

I've found in the Congressional Record indications that someone put a "secret hold" on the bill, and discussions of the bill to grant favored or "normalized" trade relations with Vietnam. Kerry spoke strongly in favor of that, inspite of the fact that the NVA newspaper had commented favorabily on the 9-11 attack, basically saying we deserved it. Kerry argued that that was the "hardliners" and that we needed to give VN the trade concessions to encourage dialog and stregthen the "softliners". (Which, IMHO, is pure BS, the NVA Army newspape is not going to print anything which is in disagreement with the highested levels of the communist Party and government.) There was some kind of Switheroo, whereby Hiltlery became the presiding officer of the Senate, and involving Kerry "suggesting the asbsence of a quorun, an then as teh roll was called another unanamous consent request to suspend the quorum call, which they did, with Hillarry being the one to say "without objection". There was much discussion of a Vietnames fish from the Mekong that was/is being sold in the US as "Catfish" even though it is a different genus and species.

Kerry and McCain waved the Bloody Shirt of their service in Vietnam, in support of normalizing relations, what was once called "Most Favored Nation" status.

The Chair was switched via that same switheroo manuever several times.

Little Tommy Daschle drug out the old saw about how trade with a dictatorship would result in "democratic ideas" flowing in with the trade. (Worked real well in China,hasn't it?)

Normalization of trade was approved 88-12.

I guess one can infer that the secret hold on the Vietnam Human Rights Act was Kerry's, but it could have as well been McCains.

I couldn't tell if the hold was released once Kerry and McCain got the goodies for the Peoples Republic of Vietnam. Eventually it probably was, since the bill got as far as a conference committe. I could find no record of the Senate's amendments, but they must be out there somewhere.

[Swordmaker]

"Senator Kerry, you personally derailed the Vietnam Human Rights Bill, HR2883 in 2001 after it passed the House by a 411 to 1 vote and thousands of pro-American Montagnard tribes people in Vietnam died since then who could otherwise have been saved. Earlier, as Chair of the Senate Select Committee on MIA/Pow Affairs, you personally quashed the efforts of any and all veterans to report sightings of living POW's, when you held those reins in Congress. You have fought tooth and nail to push for the United States to normalize relations with Vietnam for years. Why, Mr. Kerry?

Yes. This issue predated his presidential campaign be several years. Kerry acted as a roadblock to any official investigations on POW/MIA issues. According to POW/MIA Families Against John Kerry:

John Kerry abandoned our husbands, sons, fathers, and brothers in favor of trade and normalization of relations with Vietnam. His actions paved the way for the further abandonment of POWs and MIAs from World War II, the Korean War, and the Cold War.

John Kerry, as chairman of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, ordered the destruction of committee documents, blocked avenues of investigation, and misrepresented progress on the POW/MIA issue to justify lifting of the trade embargo against Vietnam.