Posted on 09/02/2004 7:34:05 AM PDT by christie
In his first major foreign-policy action as a U.S. senator nearly 20 years ago, John Kerry accused the United States of "funding terrorism." Fresh from a trip to the Far East, Kerry made his sensational allegation in Washington before flying to Nicaragua, then in the grip of a Marxist-Leninist junta, to coauthor a propagandistic peace proposal designed to disarm the U.S.-backed forces fighting to oust the Soviet-backed Sandinista regime.
Barely three months after being sworn as a senator, Kerry made his mark, and he made it big, as one of the leading opponents of President Ronald Reagan's effort to defeat Soviet-sponsored revolutionaries in the American hemisphere. The junior senator stopped at nothing: working with the nation's sworn ideological enemies, making damaging, distorted and often baseless allegations about U.S. covert operations, accusing his own government of sponsoring terrorism, and even damaging an FBI operation against a Colombian cocaine cartel.
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It wasn't a statement Kerry made
As Lt. Gov of Mass he signed an EO stating that if Mass was hit by a nuke .. there would be no response team
The Cubans in Florida would really like to know this information, IMO, since he helped send Elian back to Castro.
Greg Craig, senior adviser to the Kerry campaign
Williams & Connolly
Gregory B. Craig Partner
In 1990, Mr. Craig represented Senator Edward M. Kennedy as a witness in the trial of his nephew, William Kennedy Smith, in Palm Beach, Florida. In 1983 to 1984, working with Edward Bennett Williams, Mr. Craig represented a prominent businessman who was charged with tax evasion in federal court in Miami. In 1981 to 1982, working with Vince Fuller, Mr. Craig represented John Hinckley who was charged with attempted assassination of President Reagan. In 1978 to 1980, also with Edward Bennett Williams, Mr. Craig represented a prominent businessman charged with bribing a D.C. government official. In 1977, he represented the first FBI agent ever to be indicted, who was accused of illegal wiretapping, breaking and entering and mail opening in connection with the FBI investigation of the Weather Underground. That same year, working with Edward Bennett Williams, Mr. Craig represented former a Director of Central Intelligence, who was under grand jury investigation for perjury in his 1973 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In 1975, he represented an individual charged with arson in a six week trial in federal court in Connecticut.
Other Experience: In three stints away from Williams & Connolly LLP,
Mr. Craig has served in government in a variety of capacities:
In September 1998, President Clinton appointed Mr. Craig to be Assistant to the President and Special Counsel in the White House where Mr. Craig served as quarterback of the President’s team that was assembled to defend against impeachment. Mr. Craig was also a member of the President’s trial team in the United States Senate and presented the President’s defense with respect to Count One during that trial.
In 1997, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright appointed Mr. Craig to be one of her senior advisors, and he served the Secretary as her Director of Policy Planning during the years 1997 to1998.
For five years (1984-88), he served as Senator Edward Kennedy’s Senior Advisor on Defense, Foreign Policy and National Security issues.
Good idea. Lots of hard work evident. However, crummy website. Why is everything a link to "empty record?" One consequence of that is that you can't copy text.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
That is an interesting comment. When I got out of the Navy, (Swift Boats 1965-66) and went back to college, many of my pals were Vietnam vets. Seldom did we talk about our war experiences. Friday night pizza and beer affairs were mostly involved with discussions of how bad the FortyNiners were that particular year or school, or politics or a million other insignificant topics. When war experiences did enter the conversation, as I recall, the focus was ususally on something funny or crazy that happened.
I have been around a few guys though, who are obsessed with their Vietnam experience...it is all they can talk about. It's like the only thing that every happened to them of any importance. I have always viewed these vets as having either a character flaw, or as being NUTS!
Kerry strikes me as the latter, and I think he is crazier than Al Gore, who in my opinion, should be in an institution.
Great tagline!!
Is he on our side of the West or on the side of the Communists?
bump for print
I don't know. The links were fine before. Maybe I've been hacked. I haven't been able to fix it and have reloaded the file several times.
Okay, I located the problem. Links are back working and you can copy the text to your hearts content. FRegards, christie.
I'd say he's one of the Hate America First crowd. He's arrogant and spoiled and probably thinks of us as subjects. I'd say his father was a communist, as was Al Gore's father. Kerry may just be clueless, I don't know.
I tend to agree. Both John Kerry and Al Gore seem crazy. In a way, this is a good thing because they are transparent.
The dangerous one is Hillary. She's just as socialistic but knows how to hide it. She wasn't raised by communists, so she knows how to appear normal and level headed, and hide who she really is.
I graduated in '73, the year the draft ended. It was strange having the draft end just as I graduated. After seeing the Vietnam War portrayed on network TV every night since I was 10 or 12 I was more or less a little peace-nik. Or perhaps more aptly a little scared-nik. I hate the media for the lies they told then and even more for the lies they tell today.
I know what you mean about vets not talking up their war stories. Since about '81 my best friends have been VN Marine vets (through no pre-meditated choice). Although a good scary story might be told they never brag about their 'deeds.' They don't say much at all to non-vets unless they know and trust them very much.
My dad was the same way. He was a WWII Navy vet who served on a ship in the Pacific Theater. I only know of one story he ever told me and, apart from his presence on the ship, had nothing to do with himself. He said he never saw much action but looking back on things now I'd have to think that just being on the sea, in the Pacific, in WWII would have been enough to make you ponder what life is about. At any rate it was a subject he rarely spoke of.
I agree that Kerry is nuttier than Algore. I said that just the other day. And I think he actually lies more than Sick Willie though not as skillfully. There's two things about him I thought weren't possible.
Here's a tagline I started using in reference to Clinton. One more thing that seems even more apt for Kerry.
Greg Craig Background - Panama, Nicaragua, Haiti-Major Foreign Affairs Player Not Family Law
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Greg Craig - secret diplomacy under in the guise of private representation - Haiti Precedent
Thanks. Mind you I already printed the page to .pdf and OCRd it to get the text out! There's always a way, and brute force and ignorance is one way -- works for me.
Keep up the good work! The timeline is really useful.
The Post has new information on this and other Kerry stuff. Remains to be seen if they run it or spike it.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
I'm adding to the timeline continually. It's getting rather long though.
Thanks for the article. The quotes from George Schutz and Donald Regan never got past the media firewall. All we heard was the left's side of things in those days.
bumping for those who didn't see it the first time round.
We need to keep the pressure on. Kerry is a traitor to this country, and has proved it time and again.
Pray for W and our troops.
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