Posted on 02/08/2014 7:43:21 AM PST by Kaslin
The old codger only got to see what the Castros wanted him to see....’definitely a propaganda visit.’
I don’t buy that Harkin’s duped when it comes to communism. He’s a willing shill.
“Cuba’s a poor country,” he marveled. “But they have a lower child mortality rate than us….their public health system is quite remarkable.”
They always tout this child mortality hog wash but never tell that in Cuba over 30% of pregnancies are terminated by abortion. Their public health system is a shambles. He was only taken to the political elites hospitals.
harkin is and always has been a communist.
Now, combine Harkin’s report on Cuba with NBC’s glowing Olympic coverage “review” of Russia’s “experiment,” and even so-called “low-information” Americans may begin to see behind the curtain of what is happening to their nation today!
Where do we find these people? Too bad we give platforms to known communists, no wonder we are in the shape we are in.
Thanks, I guess he flew under my radar.
Off topic, but, the old senator looks just as constipated as Harry Reid in that photo. Prolly just a side effect from the Cuba trip.
I don't trust any statistic touted by a government led by Communists..... including our own.
It should be stipulated that “Stolen Valor” Harkin receive all future medical treatments in Cuba.
The alternate title would be something involving of flying MIGs instead of American aircraft.
That would be because they don't even try to save preemies. They don't even count them as having been born.
We try to save preemies and some of them die, ergo we have a higher infant mortality rate.
Caling Harkin a tool is unfair to things that are actually useful.
I seemed to recall that something about him was phony. A bit of google searching turned this up:
In 1979, Mr. Harkin, then a congressman, participated in a round-table discussion arranged by the Congressional Vietnam Veterans' Caucus. "I spent five years as a Navy pilot, starting in November of 1962," Mr. Harkin said at that meeting, in words that were later quoted in a book, Changing of the Guard, by Washington Post political writer David Broder. "One year was in Vietnam. I was flying F-4s and F-8s on combat air patrols and photo-reconnaisance support missions. I did no bombing."Source: Instapundit article with sourcesThat clearly is not an accurate picture of his Navy service. Though Mr. Harkin stresses he is proud of his Navy record -- "I put my ass on the line day after day" -- he concedes now he never flew combat air patrols in Vietnam. . . .
Mr. Harkin's Navy record shows his only decoration is the National Defense Service Medal, awarded to everyone on active service during those years. He did not receive either the Vietnam Service medal or the Vietnam Campaign medal, the decorations given to everyone who served in the Southeast Asia theater. "We didn't get them for what we did," Mr. Harkin says. "It's never bothered me."
Harkin is a liar, plain and simple.
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Harkin is a liar, plain and simple.
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Another way of saying he’s a democrat. He practices taqiyya on behalf of the democratic party like a muslim does for islam.
MIAMI HERALD 2008 Cubans who need medical treatment often use social networks or barter favors to have doctors see them outside the official Cuban clinic settings.
NO SURGICAL THREAD OR BANDAGES If people had to go to the hospital, they prepare in advance, getting surgical thread and bandages on their own, even obtaining drugs from the United States.
The media usually refers to him as a “populist”. The “populist” usually have more in common with stalin than anyone else.
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