Posted on 10/31/2004 2:53:36 PM PST by FreeKeys
John Kerry has fought this election campaign as a political moderate. Certainly his main foreign-policy advisers are moderate Democrats. But that campaign posture disguises his 34-year record in public life which produced no legislative achievement, but featured a well-documented obsession with Vietnam and Cambodia that continues to the present day.
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But what has been largely overlooked in Kerry's 1971 speech is that he also supported the Vietnamese Communist cause, mouthing every plank of their political platform as his own. He not only favored immediate unconditional withdrawal of American troops, and creation of a coalition government. He also denounced the then elected government of South Vietnam, where political opposition thrived, as the "Thieu-Ky-Khiem dictatorship." By contrast he referred to the North Vietnamese Communist dictatorship by its Orwellian official title of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and to Hanoi's southern apparatus as "the Provisional Government."
Were Kerry's extremist views merely the misadventures of a war-embittered youth? Hardly.
When Kerry joined the Senate in 1985 one of his early appointments as legislative assistant on foreign affairs was Gareth Porter — an academic with a long record of denying any evidence of major Communist atrocities in Indochina. Porter's 1976 book, Cambodia. Starvation and Revolution, denied that the Khmer Rouge holocaust was taking place. Of course Kerry himself had been conspicuously silent on postwar Khmer Rouge atrocities while they were happening.
Kerry continued to support some of Hanoi's foreign-policy interests in the Senate, even at the expense of his often-stated preference for the U.N. In 1990, in a rare act of post-Cold War political unity, the U.N. Security Council approved a plan to end the war in Cambodia with a U.N. Temporary Administration of Cambodia to organize elections. Yet Kerry opposed it. Instead, he wanted the Vietnamese-installed ex-Khmer Rouge Hun Sen to organize elections.
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What's to understand? Drudge is still the "press". Drudge is like the proverbial scorpion that asks a turtle to ferry him across a river and then pokes fun at the turtle for trusting the scorpion not to sting when he does. Drudge is a celebrity now, he has position in society to protect. No matter who becomes president.
The MSM is willing to inhale the entire cloud of putrid stench that surrounds and exposes Kerry for the skunk that he is.The Polecat families that spray together, stay together.
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