From sidelines, Kerry rips GOP field over foreign policy

boston Globe ^ | June 15, 2007 | Alan Wirzbicki

[mirkwood]

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[foreveranndy]

I've sent all the same emails with full details and pics to all the Chinese government departments and medias since May. 22nd. but no one stand out to save us ! ( Someone said my 3 brothers will be released in the rest 3 days , but we haven't seen the truth till now . ) My 3 brothers are still in prison , 27 days till now ！My family members are still " break the boilers and sell iron " to ask them to release our 3 brothers . The 3 lawyers my family employed hasn't done anything good to us but have charged us RMB200,000 since the very beginning ! Not returned till now ! And the government hasn't stopped them as well ! My old brother had left school since he was 10 years old only , and he went out for working since 13 years old . My little brother started to work as a coolie since 16 years old , he had to carry the heavy floor slabs with others , even dare not to stop when a nail punched his foot and blood permeated his shoes ! And I have to do part-time job all the spare time of schooling , I was almost hungry and sick to death during my school time ! I've overcomed everything others can't ! And I've learned everything others can't ! We treat our cousin as our own brother ! What the Chinese government has done all the time ? Except for robbing and abducting for ransom ? Is this our personal thing ? The countryside we've lived turns deserted , the city we are now working in turns rude ! The Shenzhen workers has only RMB300/month salary even only RMB4/day if the factory has no orders to handle ! If they are fortune enough to catch busy time of the factory , they can work for 12 hours per day , even more , and earn RMB500-700 per month ! What could they choose ? What could they eat ? And what if they are SICK ??? You know they have so little money ! ( I saved my 3 brothers and other family members in such a situation and I built the company for them ! While the government wolves come and trying to kill us all and rob all from us ! ) Why China has been the cheapest labour market of the world ? When these young guys grown up , and come " old " , they can't raise their parents , they can't set up their own family , they can't cure themselves if they are sick , what will happen ? The foreigners have come to China to earn money , why they haven't brought their welfare and freedom to the Chinese people as well ? The Hongkong policy is so nice , why the Mainland China government won't learn from it ? Why the Mainland Chinese people should bear another policy ? Why the Chinese people prefer to feed the wolves instead of hit them into death ??? The Chinese governments' " investigation " can take all the main members of a family into prison and can make all of the family members " break the boiler and sell iron " to feed and beg them to release our relatives ? The Chinese government wolves feel so free to do their " investigation " like this , but have them felt our scary and sorrow ??? All the people worldwide , please remember all these things and work together to make them pay us back !!! You know I'm still asking for help from the Chinese government , but 27 days has passed without anything turns better !!! Anndy from www.firstsing.com

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Go back to Viet Nam and try and find that career you thought you were building....

[Hornet19]

F’n Kerry is as solid as flatuence in a windstorm.

[george76]

and Nixon sent him to cambodia...

[expatguy]

wtf?!

[ErnBatavia]

Here's the email I got back last Halloween, in response to where I blasted him on his "botched joke" thingie ("Botched Joke" being the red herring to divert from his utter stupidity)
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Thank you very much for your comments. My statement yesterday – and the White House knows this full well -- was a botched joke about the President and the President’s people, not about the troops.

This is the finest military that we’ve ever had. I have fought a lifetime on behalf of veterans. We have the finest young men and women serving us in the United States military that we’ve ever had, and I’m proud of that. As a combat veteran, I know the dedication, integrity, and commitment of American troops. I’ve lived it. Had George Bush and Dick Cheney lived it one minute of their comfortable lives in combat they would never have sent American troops to war without body armor or without a plan to win the peace and they wouldn’t be exploiting our troops today.

The White House’s attempt to distort my true statement is a remarkable testament to their failure in making America safe. It is a stunning statement about their willingness to reduce anything in America to raw politics. It is textbook Republican campaign tactic. Try to change the topic; try to make someone else the issue; not the policy, not their responsibility.

I apologize to no one for my criticism of the President and of his broken policy. If anyone owes our troops in the fields an apology, it is the President. It ' s their willingness to distort, their willingness to mislead Americans, their willingness to exploit the troops, as they have so many times at backdrops, at so many speeches at which they have not told the American people the truth. It’s George Bush’s broken policy that kills and maims our heroes in Iraq every single day. His pathetic attempt to distort a botched joke about President Bush is a shameful effort to distract from a botched war.

President Bush owes an apology to our troops and to their families for mistake after mistake in Iraq . George Bush didn’t do his homework when he ran from sound intelligence about Iraq . Dick Cheney didn’t learn from the lessons of the Gulf War when he forgot his own advice not to get bogged down in Iraq . George Bush didn’t do his homework when he ignored General Shinseki’s advice to go to war with enough troops to maintain order. This entire administration didn’t learn anything about telling the truth; otherwise they would have leveled with the American people that we are stuck in a civil war in Iraq today.

[anglian]

"Wasn’t he in Vietnam or something?

He's got a magic hat too.

This guy wanted to give nuclear fuel to Iran.

[Calvin Locke]

John Kerrry's new boat. I'm serial.

12-1/2' from what I've heard.

Probably cheaper to run than the Scaramouche.

And conveniently easy to fall out of...

[Calvin Locke]

I’m writing a new book. One too many reply windows open at the same time...

[Clintonfatigued]

Gee, there’s a giant of credibility!

/sarcasm alert

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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No Joke.

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JOHN KERRY =

Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education (SLAVE LABOR) Camp

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[goldstategop]

I see the French Lad has decided to push for pre-emptive surrender. He's disturbed at the notion America still wants to defend itself. Merde!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus