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.

[bellevuesbest]

Must have really impressed the audience.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Hmmmmmmmm

[xrp]

I wonder what story he'll be spinning when he visits the Council for American Islamic Relations?

[Peach]

He flew over Israel so he's what? More qualified to lead the nation? More Jewish than Bush? Kerry is losing his marbles, IMO.

[diggerwillow]

The perfect way to see the Middle East was upside down???

[xrp]

Also, if he indeed did go over Egypt, wouldn't that mean that John Kerry invaded Egypt?

[dighton]

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

[Petronski]

That's quite a boast, but I have to ask: True or not, who cares? What's the point?

[TBall]

"a little aerobatics" and that he made a loop at about 12,000 feet. Did I just hear someone cough bull shit?

[sport]

Does anyone other a democrat believe anything that kerry says?

Only someone that is a democrat and does not have the mental capability to clean themselves after they defecate believes anything john kerry says.

[jmstein7]

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

[Alouette]

Kerry said Monday that Tel Aviv kept denying his request to fly one of their planes

Somebody tell Effin' Kerry the capital of Israel is not Tel Aviv.

[jmstein7]

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

[Dick Grayson]

I wonder if he got calluses on the insides of his knuckles from the controls and put in for a Purple Heart!

[Rightone]

You can't make this stuff up. The story's author: NEDRA PICKLER

[rogue yam]

There is another thread with a quite different, somewhat more believable, yet still nauseating version of this tale.

Excerpt:

Although he had limited experience as a pilot, he was given a Fuga to fly and within a few minutes, when he wanted to look out over Aqaba from above, the pilot who was accompanying him said, "Senator, you better turn quickly because otherwise you'll be in Egyptian territory."

That tale, which impressed the audience, echoes the story President George Bush tells about how he was given a helicopter tour of Israel by then opposition MK Ariel Sharon.

Kerry went on with his personal tale. "Then I asked him if I could do a loop, a little aerobatics and see it all upside down - the perfect way to see the Middle East and Israel," he said winning a laugh from the audience.

Link:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1128940/posts

[jmstein7]

Is he trying to compete with Randy Cunningham now?

[smonk]

what's the difference between "a loop" and "a flip-flop"?

I'm guessing that it's nothing but altitude.

[annyokie]

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