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IMPENDING GOP BOMBSHELL (Kerry in Paris, 1971!)
NRO, The Kerry Spot ^ | 9/1/04 | Jim Geraghty

Posted on 09/01/2004 10:23:47 PM PDT by Timeout

AN IMPENDING BOMBSHELL?

[09/01 10:10 PM]

Months ago, I was chatting with a Republican who is very, very knowledgeable about Kerry and I mentioned Kerry's 1971 travels to Paris, and meetings with Madame Nguyen Thi Binh. Binh had been a member of the Central Committee for the National Front for the Liberation of the South, and was now Foreign Minister of the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) of South Vietnam. The military arm of the PRG was widely known as the Viet Cong, just as Madame Binh was widely recognized as the Viet Cong delegate to the conference.

"Yeah, I've heard about that," the Republican said. "I've heard a lot of interesting things about that, but I don't think I want to talk about that just yet."

My eyebrows were raised, but he wouldn't say more.

Well, apparently Newt Gingrich just said to Sean Hannity, very slowly, very carefully, that John Kerry traveled to Paris three times to meet with the Communist leadership in secret.

I think we now know what that Republican didn't yet want to talk about.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: binh; communists; france; gingrich; hannity; hanoijohn; kerry; kerrylies; lurch; paris; powsmias; traitor; treason
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To: Flightdeck

That is their life.


201 posted on 09/02/2004 9:24:26 AM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (My Father was 10x the hero John Fraud Kerry is.)
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To: Calpernia

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0408/schanberg.php


202 posted on 09/02/2004 9:28:11 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Dolphy

I don't see the Bush people doing this unless Kerry tries some sort of last-minute smear himself.

Watch that Barnes guy.


203 posted on 09/02/2004 9:30:56 AM PDT by hchutch (I only eat dolphin-safe veal.)
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To: OESY
I wasn't impressed by Hannity. Hannity's surprise at the story about Kerry in Paris talking with North Vietnamese communist laeders shows he has not yet read "Unfit for Command". How could he not be aware of Kerry's freelance negotiating behind the back of the US administration?

The Kerry killer is photographic evidence of this. This is what the latest buzz is all about. Or film footage. Ideal for a new swift Vets advertisement.

204 posted on 09/02/2004 9:34:01 AM PDT by dennisw (Allah FUBAR!)
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To: Timeout

Can we say TREASON??????


205 posted on 09/02/2004 9:38:35 AM PDT by Sprite518
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To: dennisw

206 posted on 09/02/2004 9:44:27 AM PDT by OESY
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To: coconutt2000
Tomorrow is the very last day to file candidacy.

Hmmm. Turns out Hillary is not registered as a presidential candidate according to the FEC ... but Al Gore is.

207 posted on 09/02/2004 9:49:17 AM PDT by ctdonath2
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To: Calpernia
Hardly likely. In 1971, two years before any peace agreement, John Kerry, a Vietnam veteran who became a peace activist, said that ``points'' presented by Hanoi-Vietcong delegations in Paris, and their conversations with him and other Americans, showed prisoners would be returned. So, he said, the U.S. should not ``stall'' any longer.

(By A.M. Rosenthal)
In the winter of 1973, the Nixon-Kissinger team and its most passionate American enemies were in agreement on one overriding judgment: The war in Vietnam was lost and had to be ended.

About 17 years earlier, President Eisenhower had begun sending military advisers and intelligence operators into Vietnam --the first American involvement. Then Presidents Kennedy and Johnson each chose to deepen a war that tore apart American society long before it was over.

Richard Nixon became the only President to try, almost desperately, to end the war through negotiation. Without Henry Kissinger those negotiations would not have started, or ended in a peace agreement.

Two decades later Americans still want and deserve a full accounting of any U.S. prisoners of war not freed, and what was done about them, or left undone.

But the value of the Senate hearings on P.O.W.'s will be ruined if they become just one more arena for politicians, academics and journalists who cherish their vendetta against Mr. Kissinger, one more chance to treat a man without whom the peace agreement would have been impossible as some unindicted conspirator.

The very fact that he dares defend himself--with a kind of professional, respectful contempt--enrages them even more.

To select Mr. Kissinger as the target is unfair historically. And it lessens the chances of two central realities being made clear. One is that the villain was Hanoi, now cuddly Hanoi. Only the Communists could have kept any Americans hostage.

The other is that through callousness or sloth, every Administration during and since the war failed to clarify the P.O.W. story--else we would not still be asking questions.

As a condition of peace, Mr. Kissinger insisted on a Communist commitment to release all prisoners. Maybe tougher safeguards could have been written into the agreement. Would Congress and the peace activists have accepted the continuation of the war that might have meant?

Hardly likely. In 1971, two years before any peace agreement, John Kerry, a Vietnam veteran who became a peace activist, said that ``points'' presented by Hanoi-Vietcong delegations in Paris, and their conversations with him and other Americans, showed prisoners would be returned. So, he said, the U.S. should not ``stall'' any longer.

Mr. Kerry is now a talented Senator from Massachusetts. And now he is conducting a P.O.W. inquiry because so many Americans believe exactly what he thought could not happen--that the Communists kept some prisoners.

Not long after the peace agreement was signed, Mr. Kissinger and Mr. Nixon warned that some prisoners might still be held. Did the peace movement or Congress demand reprisal pressures against Hanoi?

Mr. Kissinger's essential role in ending the war does not wipe out the Senate's duty to investigate the fate of all P.O.W.'s, but it distorts reality to forget what happened in 1973.

Walter Isaacson, in his much-discussed biography ``Kissinger,'' is often sharply critical of his subject. But he puts criticism of the peace negotiations in this perspective:

``By the beginning of 1973, Kissinger and Nixon had brought the nation's military misadventure in Vietnam to an end. Instead of slinking away as the Vietnamese factions continued the war, Kissinger had secured a cease-fire that, at least for the moment, curtailed the killing. In addition, America's ally had been given a decent chance to survive.

``Officials in the previous two Administrations, many of whom became preening doves as soon as their responsibility ended, had overseen a foolish deployment of close to 550,000 American troops over eight years. The Nixon Administration immediately reversed the process and began withdrawing *.*.*.

``The Paris agreement was the final element of a reshaped American foreign policy that--rather amazingly--provided the nation with the chance to play as influential a role in the world as it had before the paralyzing despair of its Vietnam involvement.''

Senator Kerry can serve America by a full and fair inquiry. That opportunity will be lost if the investigation is influenced by any vendetta against Mr. Kissinger. The country deserves better. So does Henry Kissinger.

http://www.seanrobins.com/kerry/kerry_1992_09_30_Article.htm

208 posted on 09/02/2004 9:52:01 AM PDT by Calpernia ("People never like what they don't understand")
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To: texasbluebell

Where'd ya find that? I just looked on the FEC site and she's only listed as running for Senate.


209 posted on 09/02/2004 9:55:28 AM PDT by ctdonath2
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To: Timeout

It would be effective. Ugly, but effective.


210 posted on 09/02/2004 9:58:06 AM PDT by ctdonath2
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To: texasbluebell
I thought the reason that the Republicans chose such a late date for their convention was the new finance law which prohibited a party from raising funds after their convention. The Dems had picked a very early date, having already spotted the 527 election loophole and figured they could use that money instead of their campaign cash to keep the ads alive after their convention and so husband their own campaign cash for the final 6 weeks.
Oh, well - we often forget that the Internet can also be a source of misinformation, just as much as is in the MSM.
211 posted on 09/02/2004 9:59:48 AM PDT by finnigan2
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To: Timeout

Oh good! I was worried we had already blown our wad, and we didn't have an October surprise! Looks like I was wrong.


212 posted on 09/02/2004 10:00:10 AM PDT by zbigreddogz
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To: HarryCaul

I disagree. Drop this the friday before the election, and watch the Dem meltdown.


213 posted on 09/02/2004 10:01:14 AM PDT by zbigreddogz
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To: Timeout

BUMP


214 posted on 09/02/2004 10:02:29 AM PDT by timestax
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To: coconutt2000
I bet she signs her name over and over again when she's bored.

"To myself, with frank admiration."

215 posted on 09/02/2004 10:04:24 AM PDT by ctdonath2
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To: ctdonath2; texasbluebell; KylaStarr; Cindy; StillProud2BeFree; nw_arizona_granny; Revel; ...
????????????????????????????????

What is this?

http://www.hillary.org/pressroom.shtml


216 posted on 09/02/2004 10:08:22 AM PDT by Calpernia ("People never like what they don't understand")
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To: Calpernia

The FEC does note a "Hillary Rodham Clinton For President" group. They officially have no money and are a month past due for reporting money.


217 posted on 09/02/2004 10:16:28 AM PDT by ctdonath2
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To: ctdonath2

>>>a month past due for reporting money

What does that mean?


218 posted on 09/02/2004 10:17:34 AM PDT by Calpernia ("People never like what they don't understand")
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To: rebel_yell2
HOW did Kerry get this far without being "vetted" by the MSM?

Simple. Liberal candidate, liberal state, liberal media. Do the math.

As long as he remained nothing more than 1/100th of the Senate, he was no threat to the country and could have easily stayed there for the rest of his life. Once he got the presidential nod, though, the whole situation changed significantly.

219 posted on 09/02/2004 10:19:58 AM PDT by Bob
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To: ctdonath2
That site is being drafted live now. A NEW site template just went up. This one is labeled DRAFT in the Meta Title:

Hillary.org
Hillary Clinton Forum
Supporting Hillary Clinton For President Since 1995
Click Here to Enter the Forum

EDITORIALS | ARCHIVES | AWARDS

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton - Senate Arms Service Committee


220 posted on 09/02/2004 10:27:35 AM PDT by Calpernia ("People never like what they don't understand")
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