Posted on 12/15/2013 12:13:37 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
TAN AN TAY VILLAGE, Vietnam (Reuters) - As John Kerry's boat winds its way along the turbid waters of the Cai Nuoc river in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, the U.S. Secretary of State is taken back to the time he spent here as a commander of an American patrol boat during the Vietnam War.
But it is not only the past that brings Kerry to this remote part of the Mekong, the 12th largest river in the world. He is here to deliver a message about the growing threat of climate change and the impact it will have on the delta and the millions of people that depend on it for food, water and transportation.
It is the first time that Kerry has returned to the Mekong since 1968 when he served as a young U.S. naval officer in Vietnam battling Viet Cong guerillas in a conflict that earned him three Purple Hearts, a Silver Star and a Bronze Star.
"It is obviously amazing for me to be here today," Kerry told students gathered on the banks of the Cai Nuoc river. "Decades ago, on these very waters, I was one of many who witnessed the difficult period in our shared history," he said.
"Today on these waters I am bearing witness to how far our nations have come together and we are talking about the future. That is the way it ought to be," he said. "As our shared journey continues, our eyes are firmly fixed on the future and not on the past."
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recently saw a loon claim that, not only is the science settled on the fact that man did it, the science is even more settled now than it used to be.
Will he spend Christmas in Cambodia? A memory seared into his mind?
He should stay a couple weeks and take a Christmas cruise to Laos,, uhhh Cambodia
hopefully he can stay there for more than three months
I think you can say that kerry won his medals which I probably will not say about any real soldier.
Talk about returning to the scene of the crime.
Yeh he was supposed to be a soldier performing his mission and doing his duty but was just a witness and a bystander looking for the fastest way home.
Arrest kerry for war crimes and see what buddy-o does for him.
1. Nothing
2. Has he bowed to the Vietnamese yet?
Now that he is over there, I wonder if he plans to spend Christmas in Cambodia like he did the last time he was there? Oh, wait...
What a turd.
After strapping 200lbs of lead around his neck and another 200lbs to each leg
I’m sure he took an assload of band aids with him.
No soldier I ever saw wore ribbons on fatigues and had a hippie dippy mop of hair like that unless he was an open traitor.
They would find kerry unpalatable.
Waist belt too.
Just to be sure.
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