Posted on 08/26/2004 8:36:27 AM PDT by cricket
Kerry was AWOL? hahahahahhaha
Let MOVE ON know immediately. They'll demand all his records.....NOT
Correct me if I am wrong, but if Kerry had a six year, six month enlistment then he would have been guilty of treason for his antiwar actions and testimony and his trip to Paris to meet with the commies
In any event, it does answer the question - I think it was about his 'Reserve duy' but already. . .cannot remember. . .but the answer IS here!
HE SAID CHECK THE RECORD
Sen. John Kerry, Democrat from Massachusetts says he is
the strongest Presidential Candidate on National Defense ! He said
Check the Record..
We Did !
Here is what we learned:
He voted to kill the Bradley Fighting Vehicle
He voted to kill the M-1 Abrams Tank
He voted to kill every Aircraft carrier laid down from 1988
He voted to kill the Aegis anti aircraft system
He voted to Kill the F-15 strike eagle
He voted to Kill the Block 60 F-16
He voted to Kill the P-3 Orion upgrade
He voted to Kill the B-1
He voted to Kill the B-2
He voted to Kill the Patriot anti Missile system
He voted to Kill the FA-18
He voted to Kill the B-2
He voted to Kill the F117
He voted to kill every military appropriation for the development
and deployment of every weapons systems since 1988,
including a bill for battle armor for our troops.
> > > > > > > > It is most likely, with Sen. John Kerry as President and Commander in Chief of our Armed Services, that they will cease to function making it impossible for our country to protect itself.
> > > > > > > > John Kerry voted to kill all anti-terrorism activities of each and every agency of the U.S. Government.
> > > > > > > > He voted to cut the funding of the FBI by 60%.
> > > > > > > > He voted to cut the funding for the CIA by 80%.
> > > > > > > > He voted to cut the funding for the NSA by 80%.
> > > > > > > > THEN, and this is abhorrent to almost every American Voter be you Democrat, Republican or Independent, he voted to increase OUR funding for U.N operations by 800% !!
> > > > > > > > Ask yourself Is THIS the person you want as President of these United States providing for the Common Defense of the Nation and be the Leader of the Free World ?
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Voting history can be accessed through Senate voting records.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/kerry/weapons.asp
> > > > > > > > The above is an accurate summary
The real issue about Kerry's reserve status has to do with his meeting with the Vietnamese communists in Paris while still in the Naval Reserves and subject to recall.
ping
Kerry got out a bit after I did, but at that time Richard Nixon had had a chance to get things in order and it was clear that folks who'd completed their active duty obligations probably didn't need to be kept on a short leash. Besides, some of them, like me for example, had a really, really, really bad attitude toward the draftdodgers then bulging the ranks of the Reserves and the National Guard and probably would treat those people like the $hit they were!
That would not be conducive to good order, eh?!
Like Bob Dole, I'd rather see some blood.
KERRY WENT AWOL ON 3 JAN 1970...WHERE HAS HE BEEN...HE'S BEEN WHINNING AND COMPLAINING ABOUT THE VIETNAM WAR...
Kerry's opposition to freedom for Nicaragua was so intense that he traveled to Nicaragua with Senator Tom Harkin to offer support to Sandinista dictator Daniel Ortega.
This may sound like a harsh judgment, but it is essentially the same analysis presented in the book about Kerry written by reporters for the Boston Globe "who know him best." They describe how Kerry and Harkin traveled to Nicaragua on April 18, 1985. A congressional vote on aid to the Contras was just days away. Kerry wanted to negotiate with the communists in Nicaragua and "give peace a chance." Like Neville Chamberlain waving a printed statement hailing "peace for our time" with Hitler, Kerry brought back a peace proposal to derail Reagan's request for Contra aid.
ping
If lightening doesn't strike this man soon ...
oh well, end of rant.
Ping - Kerry's record
Have often posed the same. . .if not lightening; then why isn't he at least 'salt' by now.
Oh well. . .
Mr. KERRY. My feeling, Senator, is undoubtedly this Congress, and I don't mean to sound pessimistic, but I do not believe that this Congress will, in fact, end the war as we would like to, which is immediately and unilaterally and, therefore, if I were to speak I would say we would set a date and the date obviously would be the earliest possible date. But I woUld like to say, in answering that, that I do not believe it is necessary to stall any longer. I have been to Paris. I have talked with both delegations at the peace talks, that is to say the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government and of all eight of Madam Binh's points it has been stated time and time again, and was stated by Senator Vance Hartke when he returned from Paris, and it has been stated by many other officials of this Government, if the United States were to set a date for withdrawal the prisoners of war would be returned.
I think this negates very clearly the argument of the President that we have to maintain a presence in Vietnam, to use as a negotiating block for the return of those prisoners. The setting of a date will accomplish that.
As to the argument concerning the danger to our troops were we to withdraw or state that we would, they have also said many times in conjunction with that statement that all of our troops, the moment we set a date, Will be given safe conduct out of Vietnam. The only other important point is that we allow the South Vietnamese people to determine their own future and that ostensibly is what we have been fighting for, anyway.
I would, therefore, submit that the most expedient means of getting out of South Vietnam would be for the President of the United States to declare a cease-fire, to stop this blind commitment to a dictatorial regime, the Thieu-Ky-Khiem regime, accept a coalition regime which would represent all the political forces of the country which is in fact what a representative government is supposed to do and which is in fact what this Government here in this country purports to do, and pull the troops out without losing one more American, and still further without losing the South Vietnamese.
'#5. Lt. Kerry met with NVA and Vietcong communist leaders in Paris, in direct violation of the UCMJ and the U.S. Constitution.'
. . .seems a 'treason' to me. . .
Kerry is a traitor! Bump!
"That's what I'm talking about" ping.
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