Let's not forget Kerry's stellar Senate career where his greatest achievements were
Stopping the funding for the Nicaraguan Contras after bring back a peace agreement with Daniel Ortega of the Sandanistas (which was worthless). Ortega turned around and solicited $200 million from the Soviets a few days later. Read: Kerry's Disloyal Nicaraguan Journey and Don't forget 'The John Kerry Committee'Investigating (or creating) the Iran/Contra and BCCI scandals.
Blocking the vote on the Vietnam Human Rights Act in the Senate in 2001, which tied U.S. aid to Vietnam's human rights performance, and had passed by a 410-1 margin in the House of Representatives. Kerry, chairman of the Senate's East Asian and Pacific Affairs subcommittee, said in a statement at the time that he and fellow Vietnam War veteran Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) "are concerned that denying aid to Vietnam would actually slow human rights improvements." Many Vietnamese living abroad, along with human rights campaigners, say conditions in Vietnam have deteriorated in the three years since Kerry blocked the legislation.
Persuading the MIA/POW Senate committee to vote unanimously that no POWs existed in Vietnam in order to open up trade with Vietnam (his cousin C. Stewart Forbes, CEO of Colliers Intl, received a contract for a huge commercial deal worth at least $905 million to develop a deep-sea commercial port at Vung Tau). For more on the POW/MIA issue, here is a great article: When John Kerry's Courage Went M.I.A. - Senator covered up evidence of P.O.W.'s left behind
For more, check out the John F. Kerry Timeline. Email it to your friends, post on your blogs.
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I can see a Swift Boat or other 527 ad that juxtaposes the 2:
Undermining our troops in Vietnam then.
Undermining our troops in Iraq now.
Demoralizing then.
Demoralizaing now.
It could be an awesome political ad.
A response to libs
Their hands are covered in blood.
Between 10.000 and 20,000 of our men in uniform
died when in front of congress Kerry lied.
An unknown number of our POWS where tortured and
murdered when in front of congress Kerry lied.
over one million Vietnamese died when in front
of congress Kerry lied.
over ten million Cambodians died when in front
of congress Kerry lied.
Kerry's hands and the hands of those in congress
and the media who bought into Kerry's
lies are covered in blood.
Now look at your hands. If you are supporting
John Kerry in his bid for the office of President
of the United States your hands are also covered in
blood.
I have used this on a number of kerry supporters
and it makes them very angry.
Thank you so much for the link to Kerry's POW/MIA cover-up. There are so many people who really know next to nothing about this issue.
I have a family member who was/is one of the missing men in Viet Nam. We never found out what happened to him.
When it was decided that Kerry was going to be the Democrat nominee, I was horrfied! I've tried to explain some of this to my children, nieces and nephews - but have never felt that they truly understood - it was too long ago, I guess.
This article lays it out very nicely and I appreciate you're calling attention to it.
Thanks for getting this together and posting it for us. If members of the Old Media were interested in real reporting they would find Free Republic a treasury of facts and links that Freepers like you provide.
Free Republic is a researcher's dream. b.