What You Don't Know About John Kerry

Chuck Noe, NewsMax.com
Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2004

What You Don't Know About John Kerry

Chuck Noe, NewsMax.com

What You Don't Know About John Kerry

Chuck Noe, NewsMax.com
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

leader.

Denouncing America with 'Hanoi Jane': Although Wesley Clark and others

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

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

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

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

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

injunction barring it from camping on the Mall.

Those evil American soldiers: Testifying before the Senate Foreign

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."

'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

'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.

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

the best men of this country .."

U.S. Veteran Dispatch noted in 1996: "Kerry's testimony, it should be

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

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

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

on the wall of his office.

Communist stooge: The communist Daily World delightedly published photos

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

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

soldiers by wearing tattered fatigues marked with pro-communist graffiti.
They dishonored America by marching in demonstrations under the flag of

Viet Cong enemy."

Sen. John McCain revealed that his North Vietnamese captors had used

of Kerry-led protests to taunt him and his fellow prisoners. Retired

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.

The book he doesn't want you to see: When Kerry ran for election to the

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

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

"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

American reported.
Even today it is hard to find this infamous photo and book.

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

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

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

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

cooperation. We cannot afford to adopt a cold-war kind of policy that

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."

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

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.

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

economy in favor of the likes of communist China, yet he enjoys the
gas-guzzling modern conveniences that greens denounce. Kerry, a delegate

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

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.

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.

Get out your wallets: One reason Kerry and Edwards did well in Iowa:

Dean and Gephardt admitted they'd repeal all of the president's tax

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

that he's not the classic Massachusetts liberal," Larry Sabato, a

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."

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

"capable of quickly producing weaponizing" of biological weapons that

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

the National Intelligence Estimate that was skeptical of Iraqi capability.
Being tricky may no longer be as effective politically as it once was."

What You Don't Know About John Kerry

Chuck Noe, NewsMax.com
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.

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.

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."

'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."

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.

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.

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 c