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Kerry Tells of Flying a Jet Over Israel
AP ^ | 5-3-04 | NEDRA PICKLER

Posted on 05/03/2004 8:14:54 PM PDT by bellevuesbest

WASHINGTON (AP) - John Kerry wasn't kidding when he told the Anti-Defamation League that he had a different perspective on Israel. Probably no one else in the room has seen the country upside down from an Israeli Air Force jet.

Kerry said Monday that Tel Aviv kept denying his request to fly one of their planes, but that the colonel who was showing him around Israel during a 1991 visit not only got him into a trainer, but let him take the controls.

"I take it off, we go up into the sky, climb up, head down toward Aqaba," the senator said. "And I wanted to look at Aqaba, so I'm coming down over Aqaba, and I suddenly hear this voice on the intercom, and he says, 'Senator, you'd better turn faster, you're going over Egypt.'"

Kerry said the colonel then gave him permission to do "a little aerobatics" and that he made a loop at about 12,000 feet.

"To be able to come out upside down and look down and catch the horizon in back of me and see all the way down into the Sinai to the old base that had been given up, all the way across into Jordan, all the way out into the Gulf of Aqaba, and to see Israel beneath me, and the lines contained, and to see it all upside down was the perfect way to see the Middle East and Israel," he said.


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1991; adl; aerobatics; kerry; liar; nedrafellateskerry; pilotkerry; pissant
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To: SkyPilot
Guttiest move I ever saw Mav.........WOOOHOOOOOOOO "Great" Balls? of fire :-0)
101 posted on 05/04/2004 2:01:10 AM PDT by JETDRVR
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To: calcowgirl
Yeah, I did a database search also and see the he has an amsel and instrument ticket that was awarded in 1986...so what. He is what is called by airline folks as a FLAP..light airplane pilot is the last 3 words. His whole tale indicates his ability level. First in a jet you only see 12,000 feet twice...once going to altitude and once coming back through for the approach..unless you are doing close air support. However for a FLAP lying 12000 feet is nose bleed territory...actually it is as high as you can go w/0 oxygen....hardly an altitude that a jet fighter would be working in...also...there is no pilot in the world that would let anyone touch the controls of an airplane that they are not being checked out in under 5000 ft...more like 10,000....let alone give them a T/O. Given his track record...he probably wasn't even in Israel, let alone begging for a ride in a fighter. As old "Mudbone" of Richard Pryor fame used to say "Damn that boy can lie; that was his job, I'm pretty sure that was his job, because that's all he did"
102 posted on 05/04/2004 2:48:12 AM PDT by RVN Airplane Driver
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To: diggerwillow
Wow, and then he landed on an aircraft carrier. Not.
103 posted on 05/04/2004 2:49:22 AM PDT by hershey
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To: RVN Airplane Driver
Given his track record...he probably wasn't even in Israel, let alone begging for a ride in a fighter.

I think he got confused with the 360 he did when falling off his bike in front of a Jewish Deli.

"Damn that boy can lie; that was his job, I'm pretty sure that was his job, because that's all he did"

But he does it Well! LOL

104 posted on 05/04/2004 3:41:29 AM PDT by calcowgirl
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To: bellevuesbest
What a stud! Did he earn a medal for that?
105 posted on 05/04/2004 3:45:58 AM PDT by PeoplesRepublicOfWashington
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To: bellevuesbest
Highway to the danger zone.....Kerry's been watching "TOP GUN" a little too much!
106 posted on 05/04/2004 3:48:04 AM PDT by Arpege92 (America and Israel are two countries that were founded on the rejection of Europe. -Dr. M. Azaryahu)
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To: Peach
Someone forgot to push the eject button!
107 posted on 05/04/2004 3:54:53 AM PDT by reg45
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To: bellevuesbest
I hear John Kerry along with his brother Algore invented airplanes.
108 posted on 05/04/2004 3:57:19 AM PDT by XHogPilot
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To: CholeraJoe
did you see this???
109 posted on 05/04/2004 4:01:03 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: hershey
Wow, and then he landed on an Israeli aircraft carrier.
110 posted on 05/04/2004 4:02:14 AM PDT by reg45
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To: hole_n_one
Hi, I had your picture and the globe story sent to us as a letter, I have it up on http://www.christian-news-in-maine.com/letters.html

If you mind us using it, the picture, let me know and I'll pull it.

Thanks

111 posted on 05/04/2004 4:03:10 AM PDT by thiscouldbemoreconfusing
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To: bellevuesbest
Looks like we have an opportunity to have a bike riding, slope jumping, skate boarding, jet flying, Harley cruising, hockey playing, yachter and Viet Nam hero as President. (Did I leave anything out?)
112 posted on 05/04/2004 4:05:43 AM PDT by Toespi (,)
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To: bellevuesbest
I wanna see the home movies!
113 posted on 05/04/2004 4:14:22 AM PDT by bondjamesbond (Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
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To: TBall
"a little aerobatics" and that he made a loop at about 12,000 feet. Did I just hear someone cough bull shit?

No, that's from when he flew only fifty feet above that MiG doing a minus four-gee dive...the colonel's got a picture (end Top Gun reference)

114 posted on 05/04/2004 4:21:28 AM PDT by Poohbah (Darkdrake Lives!)
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To: bellevuesbest
More meanderings by the Red Baron.
115 posted on 05/04/2004 4:23:08 AM PDT by JesseHousman (Execute Mumia Abu-Jamal)
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To: Toespi
Did I leave anything out?)

Hiphop jam master sKerry
116 posted on 05/04/2004 4:28:28 AM PDT by boxerblues
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To: bellevuesbest
He's a jet pilot now, too?
117 posted on 05/04/2004 5:04:45 AM PDT by ought-six
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To: bellevuesbest
One time at the controls of a jet do NOT make you a jet jockey, no more than being an expert at flying them on a flight simulator does.
118 posted on 05/04/2004 5:16:40 AM PDT by GailA (Kerry I'm for the death penalty for terrorist, but I'll declare a moratorium on the death penalty)
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To: bellevuesbest
pocketa-pocketa-queep-pocketa-queep

Ol' J F'ing would make Walter Mitty proud.

119 posted on 05/04/2004 5:25:31 AM PDT by csvset
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To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
LOL!
120 posted on 05/04/2004 6:06:56 AM PDT by jmstein7 (Real Men Don't Need Chunks of Government Metal on Their Chests to be Heroes)
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