[PhiKapMom]

Thanks for posting this information. Your first post looks great! This is some great information and I haven't seen it posted on here.

[Wolverine]

Interesting info...do you have a link to the source?

[Fedora]

PS: I meant to highlight the reference to one Peter Kornbluh arranging Kerry's trip. Kornbluh was an IPS associate quite close to the Sandinistas. Page 79 of the same source (Powell) mentions that in 1983, 1984, and 1985, Kornbluh travelled to visit the Sandinista leadership with the following individuals: Robert Borosage, Saul Landau, Richard Barnet, and Cora Weiss. Page 134 mentions he was also a consultant for NPR while working at IPS.

[Texas_Jarhead]

Let me be the first to say, your first post is an interesting one.

[Ragirl]

Very Very interesting. Bump for later review.

[Revolting cat!]

Ah yes, the IPS and the most cleverly named Communist front group since the ACLU and the People for the American Way, the Christic Institute. Are they still around? Who funds them now, Fidel?

[Steven W.]

Thank you for your post!

For those who don't recall, take note of the following:

Within a week the Sandinista president, Daniel Ortega, flew to Moscow and secured $200 million in Soviet aid. Shocked and embarrassed, Congress reversed gears and granted $27 million in humanitarian aid to the contras.

This was no small embarassment - Kerry led the liberals in congress in support of the communist regime in Managua, all the time denying that they were, indeed, Marxists, and trying to portray the killers as peaceful socialists (despite their slaughter of dissidents in Nicaragua). With the evidence mounting Kerry went to Managua for damage control and came back assuring America that the thug Ortega was a good man worthy of support by the US.

After Kerry & friends left, Ortega headed right to USSR and received one of many large chunks of cash fed to the dispicable Sandinista regime to forment war upon the Nicaraguan populace and to provide the seeds for communist revolution in neighboring Latin American countries. The libs were exposed as complete & total fools and, despite predictions by the Sandinista sympathizers here in the US, the vote passed easily providing some degree of support for the Contras / liberation freedom fighters.

Kerry fought every attempt by the US and Nicaraguan people to remove Daniel Ortega from power and, when given the first chance to do so, he was removed quite handily through the first free election. Ortega has continually tried to get back into office but the Nicaraguan people are no suckers and neither should America be when it comes to judging the stupidity and downright dangerous policies assumed by Hanoi John Kerry throughout his public life.

[hedgie]

Oh man, "CISPES," that really takes me back. 1985, we were four years from winning the Cold war. Of course the liberals wanted to throw in the towel. I was in college and the whimpering about Reagan, "Star Wars," etc. was unbearable. Amazing how the same mentality is coming right back with respect to the war on terror. The only way I can sleep at night is knowing we must be 4th down and goal if our left flank is once again ready to quit.

[mrsmith]

Amazing what comes up on a google for kerry and ips:
http://wiretap.area.com/Gopher/Library/Zines/zigzag1.4
"Senator John Kerry hired a former [Marxist Institute for Policy Studies] fellow, Gareth Porter, to be his legislative aide. Porter...defend[ed] the bloody [Marxist] Pol Pot regime in Cambodia long after the evidence of its genocide [classocide] of its own people had become overwhelming." [_Communists in the Democratic Party_-Concerned Voters]

The swift and seamless[!] nature of Mr.[!]Gorbachev's life-change[!] from Communist strongman to environmental star[!] was epitomized by Senator John F. Kerry....'I think it fair to say you might have called him the environmental President,' Mr.Kerry said. [_NYT_, Apr. 16, 1993]

This guys wrapped a little tight, but I love that NYTimes quote. It'll get him the enviro vote for sure!

[jungleboy]

Contra bump

[livius]

Very interesting. Ping to CW and Tailgunner for a LatAm blast from the past.

[edwin hubble]

Kerry with Daniel Ortega (and Sen. Harkin) "Heroes of Iran - Contra" (from a leftist site:

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/01/279420.shtml

Senator John Kerry as featured on Democracy Now:

Kerry's audacity cost him. Within weeks of taking office in 1985, he was off to Nicaragua, accompanied by reporters on a 36-hour, self-appointed fact-finding mission with another freshman, Democratic Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa.

Congressional Democrats had accused the White House of exaggerating the communist threat posed by the Sandinista regime. So the two senators were publicly castigated when -- just days after meeting with Daniel Ortega and other leaders of the regime -- the Sandinistas climbed aboard a plane to Moscow to cement their Soviet ties.

Secretary of State George Shultz declared that Kerry and Harkin had been "used" by the Nicaraguans, and he ridiculed them for their naivete in "dealing with the communists." Kerry was called "silly" in the Boston press.

[Uncle Miltie]

Kerry Meets Ortega.

Source: http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/062003.shtml

[Brilliant]

Good research. The key is to document his positions. BTW, what was his position on Castro? I wonder how popular it would be in Miami.

[backhoe]

Welcome- I will cross-link your post to this:

-John Kerry- some selected, informative links...--

See my tagline for my opinion of all this...

[Just mythoughts]

Good job.

JFK got ties all over the communistic world...

Iran seems to be his most recent funders, and he is sending emails.

[mrsmith]

btt

[Bob J]

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