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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: SandyInSeattle
What kind of helicopters? Mine flew Chinooks, the big 'uns.
41 posted on 05/03/2004 8:48:59 PM PDT by annyokie (There are two sides to every argument, but I'm too busy to listen to yours.)
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To: bellevuesbest; cmsgop

42 posted on 05/03/2004 8:49:55 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound
"Now he done it! He busted my BullShit Detector!" Funny!!

So what love story is he going to say he and Trayza inspired?
43 posted on 05/03/2004 8:50:17 PM PDT by Esther Ruth (Mom, don't show me those sKerry pictures - It scares me out the heck.)
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To: bellevuesbest
Kerry is a trained pilot? I hadn't heard that one....
44 posted on 05/03/2004 8:52:27 PM PDT by TheBattman (Leadership = http://www.georgewbush.com/)
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To: bellevuesbest
"to see it all upside down was the perfect way to see the Middle East and Israel," he said."

Kinda makes me wonder what else he sees upside down.

45 posted on 05/03/2004 8:52:35 PM PDT by TheCrusader
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To: TheBattman
He also, by the way, served in Vietnam.
46 posted on 05/03/2004 8:56:10 PM PDT by bellevuesbest
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To: bellevuesbest
When he paddles across the Potomac then he'll really have done something.
47 posted on 05/03/2004 8:58:05 PM PDT by philman_36
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To: Esther Ruth
Ren and Stimpy?

Catdog?
48 posted on 05/03/2004 8:59:09 PM PDT by Tennessee_Bob (http://www.code16.com/cat/)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Well I'm sure Terrayzahh was quite impressed;))
49 posted on 05/03/2004 8:59:23 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: bellevuesbest
Kerry said the colonel then gave him permission to do "a little aerobatics" and that he made a loop at about 12,000 feet.

I'd believe this story if the colonel were North Vietnamese....

50 posted on 05/03/2004 9:02:48 PM PDT by freebilly (I take great pleasure in the misery of Americans who take great pleasure in the misery of Americans.)
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To: bellevuesbest
Oh geeze. The senator got into bad drugs. Typical. Egypt??? Cripes, he's supposed to be some ACE and doesn't even know where he is in flight. Reminds me of the Albore picture with the gun pointed to his own stoopid head.
51 posted on 05/03/2004 9:04:21 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama (pro gun Mother's Day 2004! www.2asisters.org)
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To: freebilly
He's just lucky Jane Fonda didn't shoot him down.
52 posted on 05/03/2004 9:06:30 PM PDT by azcap
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To: bellevuesbest
After the aerial maneuvers Kerry reported a slight upset stomach and put himself in for an Israeli purple heart.
53 posted on 05/03/2004 9:09:51 PM PDT by azcap
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To: jmstein7
I didn't know that Kerry flew... didn't he command a swiftboat?

It was a Flying Swiftboat.

54 posted on 05/03/2004 9:13:39 PM PDT by Hillary's Lovely Legs (I am trying to stop an outbreak here and you're driving the monkey to the airport.)
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To: dighton
Next, “How I shot down the Syrian air force over Lebanon.”

....in a weapons system I voted against before I voted against it.

55 posted on 05/03/2004 9:13:50 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: jmstein7
I've always had that impression of Kerry, that he never matured beyond high school.
56 posted on 05/03/2004 9:14:51 PM PDT by Spotsy (Bush-Cheney '04)
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To: bellevuesbest
Imagine if the Rats had an inquisitive press, let alone a hostile one???? This is another Yaaaawn Lie & the Press Kerry!!! Watch him tell the Muslim community he made a suicide bomb belt while in Gaza???

Pray for W and Our Troops

57 posted on 05/03/2004 9:16:02 PM PDT by bray (Hey, Yaaaawn Tax & Carry, why don't YOU give your $$$$ to the gummit???)
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To: azcap
He's just lucky Jane Fonda didn't shoot him down.

I hear she did shoot him down-- Just after he asked her to model her Barbarella outfit for him....

58 posted on 05/03/2004 9:19:08 PM PDT by freebilly (I take great pleasure in the misery of Americans who take great pleasure in the misery of Americans.)
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To: annyokie
I bet your husband liked Kerry's claim that he took the controls at 5 feet of the ground.

Kerry's posing is endless - like pretending in Iowa that he can fly a helicopter, or insisting that he once tried flying under the Golden Gate Bridge but was scared off when he hit a bird.
59 posted on 05/03/2004 9:20:32 PM PDT by Spotsy (Bush-Cheney '04)
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To: arasina
I forgot about Bubba's pledge to take up arms! LOL!
60 posted on 05/03/2004 9:23:51 PM PDT by Spotsy (Bush-Cheney '04)
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