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.

[annyokie]

What kind of helicopters? Mine flew Chinooks, the big 'uns.

[hole_n_one]

[Esther Ruth]

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

So what love story is he going to say he and Trayza inspired?

[TheBattman]

Kerry is a trained pilot? I hadn't heard that one....

[TheCrusader]

"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.

[bellevuesbest]

He also, by the way, served in Vietnam.

[philman_36]

When he paddles across the Potomac then he'll really have done something.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Ren and Stimpy?

Catdog?

[Frank_2001]

Well I'm sure Terrayzahh was quite impressed;))

[freebilly]

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....

[PistolPaknMama]

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.

[azcap]

He's just lucky Jane Fonda didn't shoot him down.

[azcap]

After the aerial maneuvers Kerry reported a slight upset stomach and put himself in for an Israeli purple heart.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

I didn't know that Kerry flew... didn't he command a swiftboat?

It was a Flying Swiftboat.

[Calvin Locke]

Next, “How I shot down the Syrian air force over Lebanon.”

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

[Spotsy]

I've always had that impression of Kerry, that he never matured beyond high school.

[bray]

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

[freebilly]

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....

[Spotsy]

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.

[Spotsy]

I forgot about Bubba's pledge to take up arms! LOL!