The biggest difference in the Right and Left is our ability (or willingness) to recount historical facts.
Yes, and there was no persecution in Eastern Europe after the U.S. sold the region out to the Soviets after World War 2. Life was beautiful, and there were no toilet paper shortages whatsoever! And North Korea and Zimbabwe are perfect utopias where everyone lives in peace and harmony, with bunnies and green grass and rainbows. Don't tell Jimmy Carter about the bunnies, though. /s
for people like harkin, only good thing happened in southeast asia after the war: communism flourished.
And so soon after Dith Pran’s death, too. What a great guy, Mr. Harkin.
To harkin—
Is that why all those “boat people” left the country?
It was too much of a paradise?
Funny how I personally know people who didn't see their fathers for 12-17 years. Or ever again after the fall of the Republic of Viet Nam. Not to mention my Khmer friends.
Wow!!! He actually said that??? I know I listened but the lie is so fantastic I con not fully comprehend it. Every bit as dangerous and delusional as the Holocaust deniers!!!
When Bill Clinton wanted to reestablish relations with the North Vietnamese communists, Tom Harkin was the communist he sent over first to treat with them. I wonder why...
/s
Well that is a fact, if you only got your information from our media. After the US troops left, the media stopped reporting about bad things in Vietnam. Since the evil US government was no longer there, everything was rosy. So the atrocities of the communist regime that followed did not happen since they were not seen nightly on our TV sets or in our newspapers of record. Out of sight out of mind. Unfortunately, that reality was not the case for the south Vietnamese people who actually lived through it.
And still the Iowa Republicans, same as for decades, can’t find an answer to Commie Tommy. (Out of a multitude of failures, this is their signal failure.)
They continue to think they can beat a socialist warrior with milquetoast.
"Shortly after taking office in 1985, Kerry and Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa went on a fact-finding trip to Nicaragua, where they met with Daniel Ortega (right) and other Sandinistas. The trip was criticized when the Sandinistas cemented ties with Moscow."
http://cache.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/images/day6/01b.jpg
The Real Story Behind Rev. Wright's Controversial Black Liberation Theology Doctrine
Monday , May 5, 2008
FoxNews/Hannity's America
[special Friday night edition--original airdate May 2, 2008]
(some key excerpts)
JOSE DIAZ-BALART, TELEMUNDO NETWORK: "Liberation theology in Nicaragua in the mid-1980's was a pro-Sandinista, pro-Marxist, anti-U.S., anti-Catholic Church movement. That's it. No ifs, ands, or buts. His church apparently supported, in the mid-'80s in Nicaragua, groups that supported the Sandinista dictatorships and that were opposed to the Contras whose reason for being was calling for elections. That's all I know. I was there.
I saw the churches in Nicaragua that he spoke of, and the churches were churches that talked about the need for violent revolution and I remember clearly one of the major churches in Managua where the Jesus Christ on the altar was not Jesus Christ, he was a Sandinista soldier, and the priests talked about the corruption of the West, talked about the need for revolution everywhere, and talked about 'the evil empire' which was the United States of America."
REV. BOB SCHENCK, NATIONAL CLERGY COUNCIL: "it's based in Marxism. At the core of his [Wright's] theology is really an anti-Christian understanding of God, and as part of a long history of individuals who actually advocate using violence in overthrowing those they perceive to be oppressing them, even acts of murder have been defended by followers of liberation theology. That's very, very dangerous."
SCHENCK: "I was actually the only person escorted to Dr. Wright. He asked to see me, and I simply welcomed him to Washington, and then I said Dr. Wright, I want to bring you a warning: your embrace of Marxist liberation theology. It is contrary to the Gospel, and you need, sir, to abandon it. And at that he dropped the handshake and made it clear that he was not in the mood to dialogue on that point."
The Real Story Behind Rev. Wright's Controversial Black Liberation Theology Doctrine:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html
Obama's Church: Gospel of Hate
Kathy Shaidle, FrontPageMag.com
Monday, April 07, 2008
In March of 2007, FOX News host Sean Hannity had engaged Obama’s pastor in a heated interview about his Church’s teachings. For many viewers, the ensuing shouting match was their first exposure to "Black Liberation Theology"...
Like the pro-communist Liberation Theology that swept Central America in the 1980s and was repeatedly condemned by Pope John Paul II, Black Liberation Theology combines warmed-over 1960s vintage Marxism with carefully distorted biblical passages. However, in contrast to traditional Marxism, it emphasizes race rather than class. The Christian notion of "salvation" in the afterlife is superseded by "liberation" on earth, courtesy of the establishment of a socialist utopia.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=30CD9E14-B0C9-4F8C-A0A6-A896F0F44F02
From "45 Communist Goals":
#27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion.
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
Harkin is an embarrassment to Iowa, the US Senate and our country.
Wow! harkin just stepped in it-what an ASS!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyluck
I lived in Hong Kong when it happened and what the Wiki folks don't tell you is that the ship's crew deliberately ran the Skyluck up onto the beach.