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| 01-21-04
| The Heavy Equipment Guy
Posted on 01/21/2004 1:59:29 PM PST by backhoe
What You Don’t Know About John Kerry
Newsmax. ^ | Jan. 20, 2004 | Chuck Noe
It's about time somebody put together the real biography of John Kerry. All one hears nowadays is his "Vietnam hero" lines. Before this campaign is over, he will rival the exploits of Kennedy in PT-109.
The Media is lapping it up.
Kerry Postures as a War Hero
As a presidential hopeful, Senator John Kerry touts his military experience. But 30 years ago he led anti-war protests and marched alongside revolutionary Communists. Senator John Kerry wants to be...
(John) Kerry blasts GOP in keynote address
WORCESTER - His eye on the White House, Sen. John F. Kerry set a sharp partisan tone as he kicked off the state Democratic convention last night, blasting the GOP as anti-union and weak on issues like education.
John Kerry Plots Presidential Run
Posted on 05/07/2002 10:57 AM PDT by Teacup WASHINGTON (AP) - Considering a run for the presidency, John Kerry is trying to assure voters that he's more than just another Democrat from the liberal state of Massachusetts.
John Kerry Plots Presidential Run
Posted on 05/07/2002 10:57 AM PDT by Teacup WASHINGTON (AP) - Considering a run for the presidency, John Kerry is trying to assure voters that he's more than just another Democrat from the liberal state of Massachusetts.
Sen. John Kerry's Purple Heart-burn
"Politics in a Time of War" in the latest USNews shows liberal Sen. John Kerry on a war footing with President Bush, as a possible prelude to a presidential run by eternal hopeful Kerry in 2004. ......
ATTACK OF THE ID (John Kerry Foot-In-Mouth Alert)
April 4, 2003 -- PUNDITS and chat- show personalities often play the role of ideological id in American politics - expressing intemperate views, pro and con, that are governed more by passionate partisanship than sweet reason.
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A decade ago, however, Kerry rose in the Senate on two separate occasions to decry presidential candidates who used their military service record as a qualification for the highest office.
On Feb. 27, 1992, Kerry defended then presidential candidate Bill Clinton against an attack by his Democratic rival Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.). As the primary season unfolded, Kerrey, who lost part of his leg in Vietnam, had peppered Clinton with uncomfortable questions about whether the Arkansan had evaded the draft.
Kerry hit back at his Senate colleague, saying: “I am saddened by the fact that Vietnam has yet again been inserted into the campaign, and that it has been inserted in what I feel to be the worst possible way… What saddens me most is that Democrats, above all those who shared the agonies of that generation, should now be re-fighting the many conflicts of Vietnam in order to win the current political conflict of a presidential primary.”
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(The 1990's? The Decade of Fraud(s)... the 00's? The Decade of Lunatics...)
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(The Clintons destroyed the democRat party- they just haven't laid down yet...)
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(The 1990's? The Decade of Fraud(s)... the 00's? The Decade of Lunatics...)
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Some info I wasn't sure you had:
And it was reported that Frances Zwenig, Senator John Kerry's chief of staff for the now defunct Senate Select Committee on POW/MIAs, served for a short-time in the Vietnam interests section of Commerce until someone figured this might be viewed as a conflict of interest. As Kerry's aide, Zwenig, according to documents, coached the North Vietnamese to concoct plausible stories on the fate of POW/MIAs in order to show that Hanoi was cooperating to resolve the POW/MIA issue, a hurdle in the diplomatic dance to lift the trade embargo and renew relations with Vietnam.
Senator Kerry was caught on camera making a promise to the North Vietnamese communists that he would ensure that they weren't embarrassed by their concocted stories. Zwenig went on to serve with Madeleine Albright at the UN. Zwenig is now reportedly working with the Washington-based U.S.-Vietnam Trade Council, a group that lobbied heavily for lifting the trade embargo and renewing relations with Vietnam. Now their focus is to win most-favored nation (MFN) for the draconian communist regime in Vietnam, which recently burned a Buddhist Monastery in Hue and jailed the monks and nuns for advocating improved human rights, freedom of religion and democracy.
Congress Should Investigate: Did Foreign Contributions Sway Policy Toward Vietnam?
Almost immediately upon assuming his responsibility as head of the Select Committee, Kerry began a personal campaign to remove the POW/MIA question as an obstacle preventing billions of dollars in trade between the U.S. and Vietnam. Kerry manipulated, distorted and suppressed evidence allowing MIAs to be written off as dead when evidence indicated that many were alive and possibly incarcerated in communist prisons. He and his staff director, Ms. Frances Zwenig, secretly scripted the testimony of important Department of Defense witnesses who were appearing before the Select Committee and were supposed to be the subject of Kerry's investigative efforts. Zwenig, in an unprecedented action, met with Vietnamese officials in Vietnam and coached them on how to write off as dead on paper, without any physical evidence, American MIAs. After Kerry told USA Today, Nov. 24, 1992, that Vietnam should be "rewarded" for "extraordinary cooperation" in resolving MIA cases, news wire services reported Vietnam had "awarded" the "first real estate license" to Kerry's cousin, Stuart Forbes, chief executive officer of the Boston based Colliers International.
Zwenig, in the meantime, was working as principle author of the Select Committee Final Report while simultaneously working on Ron Brown's transition team at the Department of Commerce. The Select Committee had concluded that U.S prisoners of war were left behind alive in the hands of the communists when the United States pulled out of the Vietnam War in 1973. That finding was a blockbuster. Its release should have driven America into indignation. The U.S. government should have demanded the Vietnamese immediately release all the U.S. prisoners or provide an explanation of what happened to them. Amazingly, there was no outcry from an outraged America. Instead, the whole issue of America's missing servicemen cascaded into a humiliating loss for the POW/MIA families. From day one, the Select Committee had been salted with "loyal friends of Hanoi," linked by greed to the powerful corporate lobby. Hanoi's friends, who dominated the Select Committee, took great pains to carefully fashion its final report in a manner that obscured the one simple truth the Select Committee had uncovered.
Instead of declaring forthrightly that communist Vietnam continued to hold in captivity an unspecified number of live American POWs after the reported release of all U.S. prisoners during Operation Homecoming in 1973, Zwenig edited the Senate Select Committee Final Report to read there is "no conclusive evidence" proving United States prisoners of war still remain alive in Vietnam. Zwenig had opened the door for normalized trade relations with Vietnam and a new career for herself. Zwenig now has a six-figure position as Vice President on the U.S./Vietnam Trade Council, a front organization established in the U.S., which works closely with Vietnam's Communist Party State Committee for Investment. The Trade Council is funded by conglomerates such as Lippo, which lobbies furiously against any U.S. laws perceived as hindering investment in Vietnam's cheap oil and slave labor market.
How to kill an MIA on paper
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Thanks!
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Appreciate the info & links!
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