[EternalVigilance]

Harkin first came to public attention in about 1970, when, as a congressional staffer, he secretly took photos on Con Son Island, the main prison camp for North Vietnamese and Viet Cong POWs (after he had been informed that doing so was forbidden).

He then took those photos (which were of the worst parts of the prison he could find), and sold them to Life magazine for $10,000. What resulted was nothing less than a propaganda coup for the communists; but one that launched Harkin's career as a hero of the Left.

It's no coincidence that when Bubba normalized relations with the same communist dictators, the first person he sent over was Tom Harkin. I mean, why not? They were buddies after all!

Commie Tommy has been friends with any number of communist regimes in the last 30 years--Angolans, Sandinistas, Russians, Cubans, Vietnamese, Chinese--and has openly opposed any groups fighting them. Anyone remember the Contras? Bob Dornan once related to me an incident in the early eighties, in the midst of the Sandinista/Contra war, when Congressman Dornan and Congressman Sonny Montgomery walked into Sandinista headquarters unannounced. The doors to the Ortega brother's office opened, and out walked the Ortegas and none other than Tom Harkin---they had been having a private meeting, which was of course illegal.

One of the marks of any Harkin campaign has been his willingness to do ANYTHING to win. This incident highlights that fact.

It is deliciously ironic to see something that harkens back to Harkin's beginnings like this bite him in the butt. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Let's all hope and pray that one thing that will change though is Harkin's ability to lie his way through a campaign and beat Republican Congressmen.

[piasa]

interesting historical tidbit

[Southack]

"He then took those photos (which were of the worst parts of the prison he could find), and sold them to Life magazine for $10,000. What resulted was nothing less than a propaganda coup for the communists; but one that launched Harkin's career as a hero of the Left. It's no coincidence that when Bubba normalized relations with the same communist dictators, the first person he sent over was Tom Harkin. I mean, why not? They were buddies after all! "

McCarthy was right...