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John Kerry's secret meeting with the enemy: Dem prez nominee willfully aided communists
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Friday, October 8, 2004 | Jerome Corsi

Posted on 10/08/2004 3:41:56 AM PDT by JohnHuang2

Friday, October 8, 2004



John Kerry's secret meeting with the enemy

Posted: October 8, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Jerome R. Corsi


© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

On Sept. 21, 2004, the Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth introduced a TV ad titled, "Friends," with the message that "John Kerry Secretly Met Enemy Leaders" during the Vietnam War, in 1970, while he was yet in the Naval Reserves.

The Kerry immediate response team jumped into action, charging rather characteristically that the Swift Vets were lying. John Kerry, his surrogates maintained, did not meet "secretly" with Vietnamese communist negotiators to the Paris Peace talks – he openly told Sen. Fulbright's committee in April 1971 that he had traveled to Paris and met with "both sides" to the Paris Peace talks.

Since he told the Fulbright Committee about his meeting, it could not be "secret," the spokespersons for the campaign maintained. Besides, since he met with "both sides," implying that one of the sides had to be ours, how could the trip have been anything else other than a fact-finding trip? Besides, many anti-war radicals were in Paris in 1970 and 1971 meeting with the Vietnamese communists, why wouldn't John Kerry have done the same?

Dissecting "Kerry-speak" takes some doing. First, the meeting was secret. Only in March of this year, did Michael Meehan, one of Kerry's top spokespersons, finally admit to the Boston Globe that Kerry did actually meet with Madame Binh, the top Viet Cong negotiator to the Paris Peace talks. Even today, we do not know how Kerry arranged the meeting, where it was held, how long it lasted, or what precisely Kerry and Madame Binh discussed. These details remain hidden.

All we know for sure is that on July 22, 1971, John Kerry held a press conference in Washington, D.C., where – surrounded by POW families – he called upon President Nixon to accept Madame Binh's peace proposal, a peace proposal that called for the United States to set a date for military withdrawal and pay reparations – in effect, to surrender – all this to induce the Vietnamese communists to set a date for the release of our POWs.

Madame Nguyen Thi Binh is not someone familiar to most Americans today. Yet, in 1970, she was virtually the "Dragon Lady" of the Viet Cong. Madame Binh was a close associate of Ho Chi Minh. She was a teacher who achieved distinction in North Vietnam for her time in the captivity of the French during the war before the French withdrew and we arrived to take up the fight.

Madame Binh was beautiful and highly intelligent. Just before John Kerry came on the scene, Ho Chi Minh had dispatched one of his closest associates, Lo Duc Tho, to Paris in order to perfect the 7-point peace plan Madame Binh would advance. Lo Duc Tho was one of the original founders of the Communist Party of Indochina and one of the North Vietnamese communist's chief strategists.

Lo Duc Tho and Madame Binh crafted a clever plan designed to undermine the formal peace negotiations being undertaken on behalf of the United States government by Richard Nixon's appointed team of negotiators headed by Henry Kissinger. The point of Madame Binh's 7-point peace proposal was that the only barrier to our getting our POWs back was our own unwillingness to set a date for withdrawal. The Vietnamese communists wanted the world to perceive that the only unreasonable party in this conflict was the USA, not the Vietnamese communists. In other words, we ourselves in our refusal to set a date to end the war were the sole reason our POWs were not coming home.

When John Kerry appeared on the scene, a handsome and decorated war veteran turned anti-war activist, he was the perfect candidate to carry the communist message back to the United States. Judged by the outcome, Kerry's trip to Paris no simple "fact-finding mission." The evidence is that Kerry – while still in the Naval Reserves – inserted himself into a complex negotiation with the result that he advanced the communist side to the detriment of our official negotiating position.

The historical record is that when he returned home he held a public press conference to endorse Madame Binh's proposal. From Paris where Kerry received the communist message, to Washington, D.C., where he mouthed that message, Kerry became Lo Duc Tho and Madame Binh's surrogate spokesperson.

Nor did the "both sides" include the United States delegation to the Paris Peace talks. There is no historical evidence that would support a Kerry contention that he met with anyone else other than the Viet Cong, officially known as the Provisional Revolutionary Government, of whom Madame Binh was the foreign minister, and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the official name of North Vietnam's communist government, of which Lo Duc Tho was a member. There were two Vietnamese communist parties to the Paris Peace talks – these are the "both sides" with whom Kerry met.

When John Kerry in his street-theater military fatigues sat before Sen. Fulbright's Foreign Relations Committee, he was there to deliver the enemy's message. America, so Kerry maintained, was fighting an immoral war. We were a colonial power inserting ourselves on the wrong side of a civil war, in support of a puppet regime not supported by the people of Vietnam. The American military, so Kerry argued, were committing atrocities on a daily basis, atrocities which were approved up and down the entire chain of command – the army of Ghengis Khan.

Kerry's 1971 message to the U.S. Senate was communist propaganda, pure and simple. Yet even today, in 2004, while running for president, Kerry refuses to apologize to his fellow veterans. Instead, he and his campaign supporters still seize upon every story of a war crime in Vietnam in a desperate attempt to prove that atrocities were not isolated illegal acts, but everyday occurrences, a natural outcome of officially sanctioned rules of engagement.

The Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth expect to be called "liars" by John Kerry, even when they run a TV ad that tells the truth. Why should today be any different than 33 years ago?




TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: communistkerry; kerry1971; kerryinparis; kerrymeetinginparis; sbv; swiftboatvets
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1 posted on 10/08/2004 3:41:56 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2
Kerry is a traitor, pure and simmple.

I suppose that's why the democRAT socialist party loves him so much.

2 posted on 10/08/2004 4:02:51 AM PDT by Budge (<><)
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To: JohnHuang2

John Kerry - National Hero of the North Vietnamese.


3 posted on 10/08/2004 4:05:14 AM PDT by DustyMoment (Repeal CFR NOW!!)
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To: JohnHuang2
IF any Republican had a history like this would it not be investigated and rehearsed on the MSM news on a daily basis?

If I were to speak with an abortionist I would care not for any 'good' he says he does as a doctor. My mind and my heart would continually come back to the fact that this man practiced the killing of children in a womb. Nothing else would matter. It would be like being able to carry on a friendship with Adolph Hitler winking at that nasty little vice he has of exterminating Jews.

John Kerry should be handled the same way. No-one should allow him to brush past this scandalous past as no-on should have allowed Bill Clinton to breeze by his history of raping his constituency.

Yet we have Bill O'Reilly sounding like an excited little girl at the prospect of having him in his studio for a love fest. And of course we have John Stewart reduced to a kiss-butt bowl of jello beside himself in his admiration.

Again...it would be a far different story if this were a 'publican. Look at George W. Bush. Unsubstantiated charges of receiving favoritism because his Dad (who at the time was just a member of the House I believe), understandingly I might add, lobbied for him. All based on a scandal of its own - forged documents.

JUST what would have been done to our President if he had the history Kerry had? If Dan Rather and Mary Mapes, et al, tried to turn a realtively minor issue to begin with, into a major Watergate style fiasco...JUST WHAT would they have done with a real scandal of treason?

It is my opinion they would be calling not only for his resignation but prosecution.

4 posted on 10/08/2004 4:12:57 AM PDT by Danno (the Dems have poop in their pants...)
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To: JohnHuang2

bump


5 posted on 10/08/2004 4:17:57 AM PDT by tutstar ( <{{--->< http://ripe4change.4-all.org Judge Greer allows violations of Florida Statutes)
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To: Nightshift

ping


6 posted on 10/08/2004 4:20:17 AM PDT by tutstar ( <{{--->< http://ripe4change.4-all.org Judge Greer allows violations of Florida Statutes)
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To: JohnHuang2

Well, Thanks...that gets my day started by being "Spring Loaded" to the PO position...


7 posted on 10/08/2004 4:27:31 AM PDT by RVN Airplane Driver (www.RealHeroesVoices.com....see the real John Kerry)
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To: zip

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8 posted on 10/08/2004 4:28:40 AM PDT by Mrs Zip
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To: JohnHuang2

I am shocked I tell you, shocked.

Kerry wouldn't aid the terrorist, would he? Is he? Why yes I think he is. How many car bombs have killed how many people just so the terrorists can try and convince the public to elect him. Food for thought.


9 posted on 10/08/2004 4:31:12 AM PDT by Tarpon
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To: JohnHuang2

Well let's not stop in the 70's, in the 90's it was JFKerry and John McCain that normalized relations with Vietnam and neither of them ever use that great success in their campaign speeches.

This should be the very thing that JFKerry promotes as one of his grand accomplishments and yet he never mentions it nor is he ever asked about it.

WHY????


10 posted on 10/08/2004 4:40:31 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Just mythoughts

Yes – I am a registered independent who for a long time did not care about Bush or Kerry. I don’t know about the rest of you out there – BUT I HAVE ABOUT HAD IT WITH THE DEMOCRATS & THEIR LACKEYS THE LIBERAL MEDIA’S DOG & PONEY SHOW! From now on I will refer to this “band of brothers” as DDAAMS – DisparagingDemocratsAndAllyMediaSycophants.

One can see the extent that DDAAMS has gone to in order to cross-examine every thread of evidence in Bush’s military records in search of any hint of impropriety to the claim that he served honorably and was honorably discharged. Let’s just forget for one moment about the DDAAMS philosophy that the 14 comrades who agree with Kerry are telling the truth and the 260 who disagree with him are liars. What about John Kerry’s military service?

Why hasn’t the elite media raised these questions: Why is it OK to vilify Dick Cheney for his deferments and ignore the fact that Kerry had asked for one to study in Paris?

DDAAMS is relentless in their quest to show that Bush was absent from Guard drills BUT on Jan. 3, 1970, Lt. John Kerry was transferred to the Naval Reserve Manpower Center in Bainbridge, Md. Therefore, there should be Performance Records for two years of obligated Ready Reserve, the 48 drills per year required and his 17 days of active duty per year training while Kerry was in the Ready Reserves. Have these records been released? Has anyone in the “Bush bashing” liberal media ever talked to Kerry's commanding officer at the Naval Reserve Center where Kerry drilled?

While DDAAMS is questioning Bush’s whereabouts when he was supposed to be serving out his obligation to his country in the Guards – Kerry was supposed to serving out his obligation to his country in the Navel Ready Reserves but instead he apparently was attending rallies where the Vietcong flag was displayed while our flag was desecrated, defiled and mocked, thereby giving aid and comfort to the enemy, and attending a meeting that where it was voted on to assassinate members of the U.S. Senate. Oh Dan Rather, watchdog of the publics’ trust – where out thou now?

While DDAAMS states that because of what Bush did during his military service he is unfit for command, they fail to realize that while Kerry was still legally an officer in the US Navy he met with the Vietnamese Communists in Paris. For this Kerry should have been court marshaled under the United States Code Of Military Justice Article 104 part 904 and should have been tried for treason under the direct violation of Article 3, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution. When is NBC going to look into this?

While DDAAMS is constant in their attacks on Bush’s honorable discharge which he did indeed receive in 1972 – the same year as Kerry should have received his too, nobody in the liberal media will question why Kerry did not receive his until March 12 2001.

I can hear it from the DDAAMS now – how dare you besmirch the noble John Kerry for trying to obtain the release of our POWs still in Vietnam. Two answers for this well versed retort from the Democratic detractors: (1) I doubt very much that I would even have the freedom right now to be writing and sharing my 1st hand thoughts with you now if every time our nation was engaged in a fight for democracy the “John Kerrys” who thought that the war this country was engaged in was wrong and took it upon themselves to cross over to the other side and secretly meet with the enemy to work out their own idea of a negotiated peace. (2) Why don’t you ask the former Vietnam POWs just how much of a positive effect John Kerry after war efforts had on their predicament?

Again I can hear the DDAAMS – “The media is not biased towards John Kerry”! Really? How can I prove that DDAAMS is slanted in their investigation of Bush’s and Kerry’s military records? By using the one of the few things that Mr. Dan Rather fears – the Vanderbilt Television News Archive. To those of you not familiar with the Vanderbilt Television News Archive, let me give you a brief synopsis.

The Television News Archive collection (http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/ ) at Vanderbilt University is the world's most available, extensive and complete archive of television news. Since 1968, the Archive has consistently recorded, indexed, and preserved network television news for research, review, and study. Every news program that has been run since 1968 has been taped, archived, and documented word for word (if you just want to read the transcripts).

According to a story in the November 1991 issue of Texas Monthly magazine, CBS anchorman Dan Rather said he lives with two burdens - the ratings and the Vanderbilt Television News Archive.

Getting back to the subject, I opened the archives and ran two queries. First I ran “Bush National Guard” and I found that since February 4th 2004 through September 14th CBS alone has ran 16 stories raising doubts about President Bush not fulfilling his obligation to the TANG. Sixteen segments in 7 and ½ months – not too aggressive I figured.

And then I ran this query “Kerry Navy Reserve” and I found that CBS had done none – zilch – nil – not a one - story questioning John Kerry’s fulfillment of duty to the Navy Reserve.

Even Ray Charles could see that DDAAMS has gone entirely out of their way, expounded enormous amounts of resources, and wasted away who knows how much time to vilify President Bush, but at the same time have taken a laissez faire attitude when it comes to John Kerry.

Oh what a tangled web we weave when it is that we try to deceive! Both Democrats and Republicans reiterate that this election will come down to which side can convince the undecided voters who is and who isn’t telling them the truth. In my view – the Democrats can get on the first stage out of town and take the liberal DDAAMS with them.


11 posted on 10/08/2004 5:09:32 AM PDT by clifcrds (There Are None So Blind Than Those Who Will Not See)
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To: JohnHuang2

Keep in mind that, to Kerry, meeting with the enemy,
and testifying about 'American autrocities', was
a means to an end. If Kerry had never spoke
about war crimes, we would never had heard of him.
Doing what the enemy wanted --> good political
strategy for Massachusetts in the '70s, and '80s.


12 posted on 10/08/2004 5:15:33 AM PDT by greasepaint
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13 posted on 10/08/2004 5:32:49 AM PDT by Gucho
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To: Budge
Here are Kerry's own words describing the meeting with communist leaders: Note that he admits he met ONLY with communists:

Mr. KERRY. My feeling, Senator, is undoubtedly this Congress, and I don't mean to sound pessimistic, but I do hot 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 [Hanoi Communists, ed.] and the Provisional Revolutionary Government [Viet Cong, ed.] and of all eight of Madam Binh's points [Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, the Viet Cong Foreign Minister, ed.] it has been stated time and time again,... 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.

I got this excerpt from wintersoldier.com

14 posted on 10/08/2004 5:47:55 AM PDT by Drawsing
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To: JohnHuang2; Mo1; Howlin; Peach; BeforeISleep; kimmie7; 4integrity; BigSkyFreeper; RandallFlagg; ...
READ THIS TOO...

Kerry’s Soviet Rhetoric The Vietnam-era antiwar movement got its spin from the Kremlin.

15 posted on 10/08/2004 5:51:00 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: USMCVet


Ping for your attention....


16 posted on 10/08/2004 5:51:41 AM PDT by MudPuppy (Semper Fidelis!!!!!!!)
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To: clifcrds

"Yes – I am a registered independent who for a long time did not care about Bush or Kerry. I don’t know about the rest of you out there – BUT I HAVE ABOUT HAD IT WITH THE DEMOCRATS & THEIR LACKEYS THE LIBERAL MEDIA’S DOG & PONEY SHOW! From now on I will refer to this “band of brothers” as DDAAMS – DisparagingDemocratsAndAllyMediaSycophants. "


"IF" you are old enough to remember the 60's and 70's then you are seeing the continuation of that method of operation.

Nixon was taken down from within and without and these of this ideology have never come down from that "high". That is not to say Nixon did not have his faults, but it was his faults that these of the leftist ideology "we are gods" and the sleeping, go along to get along Republicans allowed, a media driven coup.

Today Nixon looks like a saint in contrast to the Clintons, algore, and most of all JFKerry.

JFKerry is embolden by what he did during that timeframe and he knew without a doubt that the so called "free" press would cover his backside, while he once again stuck his finger in we Americans eye.


17 posted on 10/08/2004 5:53:20 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Just mythoughts

Yes I am old enough to remember the 60's & 70's.

I wonder how many people realize that one of the things working for "slick Willie" during the impeachment process is that he had experience on his side.

During the Nixon impeachment there really weren’t too many impeachment cases to use as a guideline. Those who were working on the case had to "wing it" as they went along. The one thing they did know however is that the legal proceedings that they crafted against Nixon would give them great on the job training and inside experience if they ever had to use it again.

Oh - one of the lawyers working on the Nixon case just happened to be a young "eager beaver" right out of college by the name of Hillary Rodham.


18 posted on 10/08/2004 6:18:01 AM PDT by clifcrds (There Are None So Blind Than Those Who Will Not See)
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To: clifcrds

Yes indeed.


19 posted on 10/08/2004 6:20:51 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: JohnHuang2

More excellent work from Dr. Corsi... thanks.


20 posted on 10/08/2004 6:55:37 AM PDT by Interesting Times (ABCNNBCBS -- yesterday's news.)
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