[christie]

In doing research for my John F. Kerry Timeline, I checked out Kerry's connection to Daniel Ortega and the Sandinistas. This is another, seldom discussed, chapter in Kerry life. This is a long article, but well worth the read.

As a freshman senator, Kerry took it upon himself to negotiate with Daniel Ortega, fight funding to the Contras, bribe informants, interfere with the FBI and DEA drug investigations, and so on.

What he did in Vietnam, he did in Nicaragua, which is what he is trying to do in Iraq--side with the enemy against his own government and country.

[christie]

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"Once in office in 1985, Kerry acted on his words. He held a news conference accusing the U.S. government of financing terrorism. "Foreign policy should represent the democratic values that have made our country great, not subvert those values by funding terrorism to overthrow the governments of other countries," Kerry said in a statement. He announced he and Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) would go to Managua, the Nicaraguan capital. The pair of Vietnam-era radicals held two days of secret talks with Sandinista junta leader Daniel Ortega, timing the visit just before a scheduled vote on release of the $14 million to the freedom fighters. "

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.), who was also at loggerheads with the administration over Central America, took the unusual step April 23 of rebuking his colleagues and accusing Kerry and Harkin of breaking the law and "transgressing" against the Constitution by holding unauthorized negotiations with a foreign leader.

With Sens. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) heaping praise on the Managua trip, Goldwater said Kerry and Harkin "negotiated over there ... and now they're trying to force the president of the United States to negotiate with the president of Nicaragua. I honestly think two members of our body are violating the [federal] code when they undertake to negotiate" and are "usurping a section of the Constitution" giving only the president the right to negotiate with foreign leaders, Goldwater said. "To transgress against the Constitution is wrong, wrong, wrong."

Kerry shot back that he was "a veteran of Vietnam who fought and was wounded in that conflict." He added that Secretary of State George P. Shultz had encouraged the trip, quoting from a letter to House Speaker Tip O'Neill (D-Mass.) encouraging "congressional travel to Nicaragua and Central America."
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[gunnygail]

Again, why was he NOT arrested for treason?

Must be that RICH BRAHMIN background at work.

[tallhappy]

Yes.

And Greg Craig, recently lawyer for Castro -- I mean Elian's father -- was highly involved in the anti-Contra legislation and support for the Sandinistas as Ted Kennedy's senior forign policy aide.

Craig is part of the Kerry campaign today and we do not need him in the State Department, perhaps even as Secretary of State.

[mattdono]

I wrote a piece that was similar to this...check it out...

Kerry, Cambodia, Nicaragua and the War on Global Terrorism

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Thanks for posting the article. I've only begun reading it, but the caption under the photo says it all:

"A trademark of the Kerry school of statecraft: making common cause with enemies of the United States - and allowing himself to be used by them - in order to win political battles at home.

[PsyOp]

“Conservatism, we are told, is out-of-date. The charge is preposterous and we ought boldly to say so. The laws of God, and of nature, have no dateline. The principles on which the Conservative political position is based have been established by a process that has nothing to do with the social, economic and political landscape that changes from decade to decade and from century to century. These principles are derived from the nature of man, and from the truths that God has revealed about His creation. Circumstances do change. So do the problems that are shaped by circumstances. But the principles that govern the solution of the problems do not. To suggest that the Conservative philosophy is out of date is akin to saying that the Golden Rule, or the Ten Commandments or Aristotle's Politics are out of date. The Conservative approach is nothing more or less than an attempt to apply the wisdom and experience and the revealed truths of the past to the problems of today.” – Barry Goldwater, The Conscience Of A Conservative, 1960.

Barry Goldwater, The Conscience Of A Conservative.

[piasa]

fyi

[HenryLeeII]

Traitor John in Nicaragua ping! This guy is worse than Clinton!

[Fedora]

Ping.

[EdReform]

bttt

[igoramus987]

Is he on our side of the West or on the side of the Communists?

[Luke21]

Thanks for the article. The quotes from George Schutz and Donald Regan never got past the media firewall. All we heard was the left's side of things in those days.