Posted on 09/22/2004 2:15:02 PM PDT by pookie18
Unfortunately after Richard (ass) Holbrooke :-(
Holbrooke already a jerk.
We who ripped cable out of the wall 7 years ago need reports to keep us informed. :)
Holbrooke fits well with Kerry....Two pompous @sses
Holebrook is slimey human scum.
Will be asked about the new SBVfT ad.
Good, I'll be glad to see John O'Neill. I just started reading his book, "Unfit for Command" this morning.
In the US, we don't meet with the leaders of the enemy while at war...Kerry did so.
Holbrooke was right though about Fallujah and al-Sadr.
Troops were caused to pull back 2x before finishing their missions.
Thus, the troops are still having to deal with Fallujah and al-Sadr's forces.
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Other than that, yes, Holbrooke is an a$$.
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John O'Neill is talking about Kerry's trip(s) to meet with Viet Cong in Paris. Likens it to a soldier coming back from Iraq war and then meeting secretly with al-Qaeda leadership.
Dick Klass is carrying the water, says Kerry was there on his honeymoon and just happened to meet with the VC rep. Depending Kerry's actions. Says it was 'normal' for people to meet with the VC.
This guy Klass says to was NORMAL for Americans to go to Paris and talk with the Viet Cong - sure, all my friends and neighbors were doing it/sarcasm.
"it was vewy nowmal for Amewicans that visited pawis to meet with both pwo and con sides of the waw."
neh...what's up, doc? getta a guy who doesn't tawk like a cawtoon to do yer lying for ya.
It's always nice to have the clean up guy hitting a home run........Holbrooke strikes out each time he's up.
I'll trust Rummy and our generals, thank you.
DARN--I missed it, or at least most of it. Caught someone at the end of the subject--said Kerry was in Paris to learn for himself about how to handle the POW situation. Who WAS it?
Was John Kerry AWOL?
Posted September 15, 2004
By Michael Ashbury
Insight Magazine
http://www.insightmag.com/news/2004/09/13/Politics/Was-John.Kerry.Awol-719491.shtml
For the past year, and most recently by CBS News, we have been deluged with reports that George W. Bush did not complete his agreed duty in the Texas National Guard.
Even the records show that George Bush exceeded his obligations from 1968-1973, and only came into question during the last 18 months of his agreed obligation when he requested and received official permission to transfer to an Alabama unit and then enroll in an MBA program at Harvard. His obligation was for 6 years from May of 1968 to May 1974. He received an educational release from his obligation 8 months early and received an Honorable Discharge in October 1973.
While the left questions where George Bush was during the final year of his obligation, they and the press ignore completely the similar obligations of John Kerry. John Kerry enlisted in the Navy and signed an Officer Candidate Agreement on February 18, 1966.
This agreement called for the Candidate to:
-- Par 3 to serve a total period of 6 years in the Naval Reserve of the United States, including active and inactive duty.
-- Par 4 agrees that on completion of active duty, he will remain for Service in the Ready Reserve for a period which when added to his active duty will total 5 years. Upon completion of 5 years of satisfactory service on active duty and in the Ready Reserve he will be eligible to transfer to the Standby Reserve for the remaining portion of his service obligation.
--Par 5 the candidate understands that the provisions of law require satisfactory participation in the Ready Reserve, unless relieved of such participation by competent authority or as provided by law. Such participation may be satisfied annually by not less 48 drills and not more than 17days active duty for training.
Lt. John Forbes Kerry was released from active duty and transferred to the Naval Reserve on 3 January 1970. He wasn't transferred to inactive standby status until 1 July 1972, then Honorably Discharged on 16 February 1978.
Where was Lt. Kerry during the18 months from 1970 to 1972?
Did he attend the required drills and active duty that he agreed to? Was he AWOL or did he violate his agreed commitment on accepting a commission as an officer in the service of the United States.
We do know that he made an unauthorized trip to Paris in June of 1970 to meet with Madam Win Thi Binh, the Foreign Minister of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam (PRG) -- the political wing of the Vietcong -- and with representatives of Hanoi who were in Paris for the peace talks-- in direct violation of the UCMJ's Article 104 part 904, and U.S. Code 18 U.S.C. 953.
That meeting, and Kerry's subsequent coddling of Communists while leading mass protests against our military in the year that followed, also place him in direct violation of our Constitution's Article three, Section three, which defines treason as "giving aid and comfort" to the enemy in time of warfare.
In April of 1971 he went before the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs claiming all kinds of atrocities on the part of his fellow comrades in arms in further in violation of Article 3.
While John Kerry's hero status is in question in the United States he is still considered a hero in Vietnam where his picture is in a place of honor in the Vietnam War Museum in Ho Chi Minh City. He is honored for leading the Vietnam Veterans against the War and helping the Communists bring the war to conclusion.
It is time we ask where was John Kerry during his Reserve Commitment. Was he AWOL as his supporters want to say is the case with George Bush? And, did he violate the Code of Military Justice, the Geneva Convention and the United States Constitution in his actions as a Naval Officer.
Michael Ashbury, a noted researcher and author, is the author of ''Who is the REAL John Kerry?'' Who Is The Real John Kerry
email the author
This is NOT Vietnam, and we cannot allow the RATS to slimily morph one to the other!
I heard that creep Begala call Iraq vietnam today on crossfire obviously on purpose without correcting himself.
CHAPTER 3 THE PURPLE HEART HUNTER
This is an excellent point. How can we get people talking about this ASAP?
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