Kerry Tells of Flying a Jet Over Israel

AP ^ | 5-3-04 | NEDRA PICKLER

[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.

[A.A. Cunningham]

wouldn't that mean that John Kerry invaded Egypt?

Frenchie engaged in a preemptive invasion before he opposed a preemptive invasion.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"I take it off, we go up into the sky, climb up, head down toward Aqaba,"

And then little Johnny paused to catch his breath for his story was flowing out in a tumult of words...
"And then, Mommy, we shooted the guns ! Rat-atat-tat! Those bad guys were runnin' all scared and stuff. You shoulda seen them Mommy!"

[Larry Lucido]

Next he'll be telling us there's no more invigorating way to cross the Alps than on the back of an elephant.

[texasflower]

I saw this. Fox was covering it briefly and this is what he was talking about.

He was talking softly, trying to smile and to add to his storytelling, he imitated the Israeli's accent very badly.

It was dull and it took him way to long to tell a simple little story.

[Rebelbase]

Kerry talks the talk.

Bush walks the walk.

[cyncooper]

Would you believe I read some website the other day that actually perceives Nedra Pickler as anti-Kerry?

LOL

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

Now he done it! He busted my BullShit Detector!

[blanknoone]

Nedra Pickler...Kerry's other butler...always doing his bidding.

[FourPeas]

Perhaps now is the time for me to mention my desire to sell a certain bridge....

[arasina]

How Clintonesque!

"You have to know if Iraq came across the Jordan River ... I would grab a rifle and get in the trench and fight and die." -- x42 -- July 30, 2002

[Wacka]

He was on one of those PR flights like when the Blue Angels or Thunderbirds take the local TV personality up and try to get them to puke.

[doug from upland]

He and Gore invented flying.

[Rebelbase]

Kerry claims he is a pilot.

"The presidential hopeful is also a certified private pilot with a number of ratings, and enjoys boating and riding his Harley-Davidson motorcycle. ''Like most pilots, I'll fly anything I can get my hands on that I'm licensed to or allowed to,'' Kerry told the Globe. ''I have a commercial, instrument [pilot's licenses], and glider rating and also a seaplane rating. I've flown now for 35 years since I got my license back in '66. '' "

http://outside.away.com/outside/news/200426_1.html

[Jewels1091]

Excuse me...but we have NEVER heard that this man is jet flyer qualified! You can't just get in and go. Thought he drove boats and rode in helos.

[MN_Mike]

This adds new meaning to flip-flop.

[Not A Snowbird]

Must husband is a combat pilot and he says this story in complete BS.

My husband is a military helicopter pilot, and I'm sure if he were here right now he'd also be saying this story is complete BS.

[bayourod]

I would like to see him fly from NY to Martha's Vineyard at dusk.

[Momaw Nadon]

Could anyone post the picture of the BS detector?

[GottaLuvAkitas1]

"Now he done it! He busted my BullShit Detector!"

LOL now that was funny!