What John F'n Kerry DOESN'T Want You to Know!
What You Don't Know About John Kerry
Chuck Noe
Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2004
With his win in Iowa, Sen. John Kerry could be on his way to the White
House. But most Americans are unaware of the real Kerry. Here are
facts and quotations that reveal the character of the new Democrat
leader.
a.. Denouncing America with ‘Hanoi' Jane: Although Wesley Clark and
others have attacked former front-runner Howard Dean as a
draft-dodging ski bum, Kerry is far more complex than the simple war
hero he portrays himself as. He became a celebrated organizer for one
of America's most extreme appeasement groups, Vietnam Veterans Against
the War. He consorted with the likes of "Hanoi" Jane Fonda and Ramsey
Clark, Lyndon Johnson's radical former attorney general.
He attended a seminar bankrolled by Fonda in Detroit in February 1971.
Watching 125 self-proclaimed Vietnam veterans testify at a Howard
Johnson's about atrocities allegedly committed by U.S. forces, the man
who would be president later said he found the accounts shocking and
irrefutable.
Dubbed "The Winter Soldier Investigation," the protest attracted
minimal media attention, according to the Los Angeles Times, because
Fonda insisted it be held in the remote Michigan city rather than the
less "authentic" Washington, D.C.
Still, the event gave Kerry an idea for a protest that was sure to be
a media smash, and he immediately set out to organize one of the most
confrontational protests of the war.
Operation Dewey Canyon III began on April 18, 1971, when nearly 1,000
Vietnam veterans and people claiming to be veterans gathered on
Washington's Mall for what they called "a limited incursion into the
country of Congress."
The group staged mock firefights on the steps of the Capitol and
Supreme Court and defied U.S. Park Police after the Department of
Justice issued an injunction barring it from camping on the Mall.
a.. Those evil American soldiers: Testifying before the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee on April 23, 1971, Kerry claimed that U.S.
soldiers had "raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from
portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off
limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages,
shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally
ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam."
a.. ‘We are not the best': In his testimony, Kerry claimed there was
no communist threat and said: "In 1970 at West Point Vice President
Agnew said ‘some glamorize the criminal misfits of society while our
best men die in Asian rice paddies to preserve the freedom which most
of those misfits abuse,' and this was used as a rallying point for our
effort in Vietnam. But for us, as boys in Asia whom the country was
supposed to support, his statement is a terrible distortion from which
we can only draw a very deep sense of revulsion, and hence the anger
of some of the men who are here in Washington today. It is a
distortion because we in no way consider ourselves the best men of
this country …." U.S. Veteran Dispatch noted in 1996: "Kerry's
testimony, it should be noted, occurred while some of his fellow
Vietnam veterans were known by the world to be enduring terrible
suffering as prisoners of war in North Vietnamese prisons. Kerry was a
supporter of the ‘People's Peace Treaty,'" a supposed ‘people's'
declaration to end the war, reportedly drawn up in communist East
Germany. It included nine points, all of which were taken from Viet
Cong peace proposals at the Paris peace talks as conditions for ending
the war."
a.. Throw as I say, not as I do: On that same day he led members of
VVAW in a protest during which they threw their medals and ribbons
over a fence in front of the U.S. Capitol. Kerry later admitted the
medals he threw were not his. To this day they hang on the wall of his
office.
a.. Communist stooge: The communist Daily World delightedly published
photos of him speaking to demonstrators and boasted that the marchers
displayed a banner depicting a portrait of Communist Party leader
Angela Davis, on record stating, "I am dedicated to the overthrow of
your system of government and your society," the New American recalled
in May 2003. "By frequently participating in VVAW's demonstrations,
Kerry found himself marching alongside what the Boston Herald Traveler
identified as
‘revolutionary Communists.' While noting that known Reds had openly
organized these events, the December 12, 1971 Herald Traveler reported
the presence of an ‘abundance of Vietcong flags, clenched fists raised
in the air, and placards plainly bearing legends in support of China,
Cuba, the USSR, North Korea and the Hanoi government.'"
Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry says: "As a national leader of
VVAW, Kerry campaigned against the effort of the United States to
contain the spread of Communism. He used the blood of servicemen still
in the field for his own political advancement by claiming that their
blood was being shed unnecessarily or in vain.
"Under Kerry's leadership, VVAW members mocked the uniform of United
States soldiers by wearing tattered fatigues marked with pro-communist
graffiti. They dishonored America by marching in demonstrations under
the flag of the Viet Cong enemy."
Sen. John McCain revealed that his North Vietnamese captors had used
reports of Kerry-led protests to taunt him and his fellow prisoners.
Retired General George S. Patton III angrily noted that Kerry's
actions had "given aid and comfort to the enemy."
In recent years when Kerry has exploited the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
for photo opportunities on Veterans Day, some veterans, still outraged
by his betrayal, have turned their backs on him.
a.. The book he doesn't want you to see: When Kerry ran for election
to the U.S. House of Representative in 1972, "he found it necessary to
suppress reproduction of the cover picture appearing on his own book,
The New Soldier. His political opponent pointed out that it depicted
several unkempt youths crudely handling an American flag to mock the
famous photo of the U.S. Marines at Iwo Jima," according to Vietnam
Veterans Against John Kerry. "Suddenly, copies of the book became
unavailable and even disappeared from libraries. But the Lowell
(Mass.) Sun said of the type of person shown on its cover: ‘These
people spit on the flag, they burn the flag, they carry the flag
upside down, [and] they all but wipe their noses with it in their
efforts to show their contempt for everything it still stands for,'"
the New American reported.
Even today it is hard to find this infamous photo and book.
a.. Friendly with the enemy: Kerry's fondness for Vietnam's communist
dictatorship, one of the most oppressive in the world, continues. As
chairman of the Select Senate Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, created in
1991 to investigate reports that U.S. prisoners of war and soldiers
designated missing in action were still alive in Vietnam, Kerry
badgered the panel into voting that no American servicemen remained in
Vietnam.
"[N]o one in the United States Senate pushed harder to bury the
POW/MIA issue, the last obstacle preventing normalization of relations
with Hanoi, than John Forbes Kerry," noted U.S. Veteran Dispatch.
"But Kerry's participation in the Committee became controversial in
December 1992," reported the nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity,
"when Hanoi announced that it had awarded Colliers International, a
Boston-based real estate company, an exclusive deal to develop its
commercial real estate potentially worth billions. Stuart Forbes, the
CEO of Colliers, is Kerry's cousin."
The "odd coincidence," according to FrontPageMagazine.com, involved a
deal worth $905 million.
Jeff Jacoby, the token conservative columnist at the Boston Globe,
notes that Kerry continues his apologia for Vietnam's never-ending
atrocities. "Far from taking the lead on the Vietnam Human Rights
Bill, he has prevented it from coming to a vote. He claims that making
an issue of Hanoi's repression would be counterproductive."
Kerry is also a fan of China's communist dictatorship. "On May 19,
1994, five years after Tiananmen Square, Kerry spoke on the Senate
floor against linking China's Most Favored Nation trade status to its
human rights record," Slate reported.
Kerry said: "China is the strongest military power in Asia. We need
China's cooperation. We cannot afford to adopt a cold-war kind of
policy that merely excludes and pushes China away."
Limiting China's MFN status "would make us a bit player in a
production of enormous proportions. We possess no stick, including
MFN, which can force China to embrace internationally recognized human
rights and freedoms."
a.. More extreme than Hillary and Kucinich: Among the White House
wannabes, long-shot Rep. Dennis Kucinich has the reputation of holding
the most left-wing congressional voting record. In fact, this "honor"
goes to Kerry. According to American Conservative Union, Kerry has a
lifetime rating of 6 percent, compared to 13 for the demolished Rep.
***** Gephardt, 14 for Sen. John Edwards, 15 for Kucinich and 19 for
Sen. Joe Lieberman.
Sens. Hillary Clinton and Tom Daschle score 13 percent. Only the likes
of Sens. Teddy Kennedy and Barbara Boxer have more left-wing records
than Kerry. In contrast, Sen. John Breaux, one of the upper chamber's
few remaining moderate Democrats, has a 46.
a.. Drive as I say, not as I do: Like Al Gore and other self-described
environmentalists, Kerry has a radical agenda that would devastate the
U.S. economy in favor of the likes of communist China, yet he enjoys
the
gas-guzzling modern conveniences that greens denounce. Kerry, a
delegate to the environment-destroying Earth Summit in 1992 (where he
met his future wife, left-wing activist Teresa Heinz, the
multimillionaire widow of GOP Sen. John Heinz), the Kyoto climate
talks in 1997 and the Hague Conference of the U.N. Framework
Convention on Climate Change in 2000, has attacked President Bush for
withdrawing from the anti-U.S. Kyoto Protocol. This treaty, which
then-President Bill Clinton had signed, would impose severe
restrictions on the United States but not Third World polluters that
already enjoy huge trade surpluses with the U.S. However, although
Kerry spouts the party line on anti-U.S. ecopolicy, he doesn't like to
practice what he preaches. Kerry was humiliated in April 2002 when
photographed attending a rally against energy independence and then
heading back to his SUV, the symbol of all that is evil to
self-described greens.
a.. Bone to pick: Bush-hating conspiracy theorists find it alarming
that the president, like his father, was a member of the secretive
Skull and Bones society at Yale University. Another alum of this club:
John Kerry.
a.. Get out your wallets: One reason Kerry and Edwards did well in
Iowa: Losers Dean and Gephardt admitted they'd repeal all of the
president's tax relief. However, although Kerry has taken credit for
middle-class tax cuts, child tax credit and relief of the marriage
penalty, he voted against them, GOP.com disclosed. "Kerry will have to
expend an awful lot of time and money to convince people that he's not
the classic Massachusetts liberal," Larry Sabato, a respected
political analyst at the University of Virginia, told the Associated
Press in December 2002. "And that's going to be tough, because mainly
he is."
a.. Waffling on Iraq: Kerry has the tough job of wooing Howard Dean's
anti-war Democrats despite his support of the war in Iraq. His
favorite tactic, claiming the president outfoxed him, doesn't hold up
to scrutiny. On "Meet the Press" in late August, Tim Russert played a
tape of Kerry addressing the Senate in October 2002 with a hard-line
speech declaring Iraq "capable of quickly producing weaponizing" of
biological weapons that could be delivered against "the United States
itself."
Kerry insisted: "That is exactly the point I'm making. We were given
this information by our intelligence community."
However, as columnist Robert Novak noted, "as a senator, Kerry had
access to the National Intelligence Estimate that was skeptical of
Iraqi capability. Being tricky may no longer be as effective
politically as it once was."
No doubt Dean, Lieberman, Clark and other rivals will now use these
and other details to do to Kerry what the Democrats did to Dean.
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Left-wing liberals are EVERYTHING they accuse the right of being. They
are mean, vicious, hateful, greedy, cold-hearted, closed-minded,
selfish, intolerant, bigoted and racist.
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