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The Other Traitorous Senator from Mass

While Soviet troops occupied Afghanistan in 1980, Sen. Edward Kennedy (Drunk-Mass.) worked in close concert with high level Kremlin officials to alter the direction of U.S. policy, according to documents made available through a KGB defector.

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200611/POL20061102b.html

The KGB files Mitrokhin retrieved indicate that Kennedy fixed the blame for heightened international tensions on the Carter White House, not on the Kremlin. Kennedy at the time was challenging incumbent Carter for the Democratic nomination for president.

Tunney told his KGB counterparts that Kennedy was impressed by the foreign policy statements made by then General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. Kennedy saw in Brezhnev a leader who was firmly committed to the policy of “détente,” the report said.

But, in Kennedy’s estimation, the Carter administration had assumed an overly belligerent posture toward the Soviet Union after the invasion of Afghanistan, Mitrokhin wrote.

In Kennedy’s view, “the atmosphere of tension and hostility towards the whole Soviet people was being fueled by Carter” as well as by some key advisors, the Pentagon and the U.S. military industrial complex, the Mitrokhin report states.

Carter… Belligerent? What was his reaction to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan? He boycotted the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow. Oooooohhhhh… That’s the most blatantly hostile and testosterone-laden example of brinksmanship I’ve ever heard of.

The pattern of behavior should concern members of both political parties, Kengor said, because it shows Kennedy was willing to work against American foreign policy, regardless of who occupied the White House.
For his part, Romerstein said that Kennedy, and other senators, may have violated the Logan Act, which has been on the books since 1799, but is rarely enforced. The law prohibits American citizens from engaging in private diplomacy with a foreign government with the intention of influencing public policy.

At the same time, however, Romerstein cautions against viewing Kennedy as an agent for the Soviets. Instead, he said, it is appropriate to label him a “collaborationist” who sought out Soviet contacts to advance his own interests, not theirs.

So first we learn that Ted attempted to undermine Ronald Reagan. Now it’s come to light that he tried to do the same to his ideological soul mate Jimmah. Looking at this pattern of behavior I wouldn’t be surprised if Ted hired Sirhan Sirhan to snuff his brother Bobby.

How about we hold the Masshole voters accountable for the likes of Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Michael Dukakis, Gerry Studds, and Barney Frank? I think I might write a letter to Governor Perdue of GA and ask him to declare war on Massachusetts.

Coach TC
11/02 at 04:38 AM •
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