John Kerry : Threat of Communism Is Exaggerated

Statement of John Kerry to US Senate ^ | February 10, 2004 | nwrep

[nwrep]

To John Kerry, any threat to the United States is an exaggeration. He said so about terrorism in a debate last month, and little has apparently changed in his understanding of the nature of foreign threats to this country over the course of three decades.

During his infamous Senate testimony in 1971, young John F(onda) Kerry shows the same dismissive tone about the threat of communism. Read the excerpts below:

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...It is my opinion that the United States is still reacting in very much the 1945 mood and postwar cold-war period when we reacted to the forces which were at work in World War II and came out of it with this paranoia about the Russians and how the world was going to be divided up between the super powers, and the foreign policy of John Foster Dulles which was responsible for the created of the SEATO treaty, which was, in fact, a direct reaction to this so-called Communist monolith. And I think we are reacting under cold-war precepts which are no longer applicable.

I say that because so long as we have the kind of strike force we have, and I am not party to the secret statistics which you gentlemen have here, but as long as we have the ones which we of the public know we have, I think we have a strike force of such capability and I think we have a strike force simply in our Polaris submarines, in the 62 or some Polaris submarines, which are constantly roaming around under the sea. And I know as a Navy man that underwater detection is the hardest kind in the world, and they have not perfected it, that we have the ability to destroy the human race. Why do we have to, therefore, consider and keep considering threats?

Therefore, I think it is ridiculous to assume we have to play this power game based on total warfare. I think there will be guerrilla wars and I think we must have a capability to fight those. And we may have to fight them somewhere based on legitimate threats, but we must learn, in this country, how to define those threats and that is what I would say to the question of world peace. I think it is bogus, totally artificial. There is no threat. The Communists are not about to take over our McDonald hamburger stands.

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Do we want to elect a Chief Executive who has consistently disaplayed a lack of understanding of Communism and Terrorism, the last two great ideological enemies of the United States?

[nwrep]

PING

[gov_bean_ counter]

Hope someone asks him do disavow the statements about communism. Bet he wouldn't.

[Salvation]

**Do we want to elect a Chief Executive who has consistently disaplayed a lack of understanding of Communism and Terrorism, the last two great ideological enemies of the United States?**

In short: NO!

[eyespysomething]

Hey! Good find!

[Howie66]

Hanoi John Effin Kerry should be quite the authority on the subject of EXAGGERATED claims. Afterall, he's a true and honest legend in his own mind. Just ask him and he'll tell you just how danged lucky we all are to have him running for the Office of President.

I'll go and hurl, now.

[eyespysomething]

I think it is bogus, totally artificial. There is no threat. The Communists are not about to take over our McDonald hamburger stands.

Bump

[mickie]

Kerry is truly frightening!

How did he ever get elected to the Senate?

[Waco]

The RATS,,,,,a collection of queers and commies,,,,why do you keep suckin-up to them, Monica?? Hic......

[quantim]

Here are the facts:|

• This was before Botox.
• He is an east coast 'whatever.'
• Ate lots of shellfish.

Froze his brain from an excess of ingesting bacterium Clostridium Botulinum. Decades ago.

Let the Games begin.

 

[vaudine]

Need you ask? He's from Massachusetts.

vaudine

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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'JOHN KERRY = Enemy of Vietnam Vets'

http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1320



Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer / Vet-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965

http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm
(IA DRANG-1965 Photos)

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[Ramtek57]

[kcvl]

Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap


Born: 1912
Place of Birth: An Xa, Vietnam
Military University: none
Wars Fought:
-World War II
-First Indochina War(French-Indochina War 1946-1954)
-Second Indochina War(Vietnam War 1965-1972)
-Third Indochina War 1979-81
Vietnam War:
Gen. Giap planned and directed the military operations against the French that culminated in their defeat at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954. During the 1960's Giap controlled guerrilla operations against South Vietnam and the United States and planned the Tet Offensive of 1968.

In his book, Giap clearly indicated that NVA troops were without sufficient supplies, and had been continually defeated time and again.

By 1968, NVA morale was at it's lowest point ever. The plans for "Tet" '68 was their last desperate attempt to achieve a success, in an effort to boost the NVA morale. When it was over, General Giap and the NVA viewed the Tet '68 offensive as a failure, they were on their knees and had prepared to negotiate a surrender.

At that time, there were fewer than 10,000 U.S. casualties, the Vietnam War was about to end, as the NVA was prepared to accept their defeat. Then, they heard Walter Cronkite (former CBS News anchor and correspondent) on TV proclaiming the success of the Tet '68 offensive by the communist NVA. They were completely and totally amazed at hearing that the US Embassy had been overrun. In reality, The NVA had not gained access to the Embassy--there were some VC who had been killed on the grassy lawn, but they hadn't gained access. Further reports indicated the riots and protesting on the streets of America.

According to Giap, these distorted reports were inspirational to the NVA. They changed their plans from a negotiated surrender and decided instead, they only needed to persevere for one more hour, day, week, month, eventually the protesters in American would help them to achieve a victory they knew they could not win on the battlefield. Remember, this decision was made at a time when the U.S. casualties were fewer than 10,000, at the end of 1967, beginning of 1968.


http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Camp/7624/Generals/giap.htm

[vaudine]

I just emailed my wayward son who voted for Clinton and is going to vote for Kerry that Clinton should have been impeached for degrading the Oval Office with Monica's oral orifice--that even the promiscuous Founding Fathers would have impeached him.

He also said he thought the economy and every other aspect would be better under Kerry. i just emailed him that if Kerry is elected, his children will be living with a much lower standard of living; our military will be under the UN; the islamic dominated European Union will be making our foreign policy; our govt.health care will be totally overloaded and rationed because of bad management, overuse, and immigrants; our education system will
be sorrier than ever because of a total interest in social engineering and more and more lib administrators; the world educational leaders will be india, Pakistan, and China; Unions (which he likes because they came into being to help the workers)
will be strong, but it will be govt employees and teachers unions keeping the Dems in power, and thus themselves;other unions will be gone or token; his children will be paying exhorbitant taxes; and our Supreme Court will be puppets of a World or International Court; and Christianity will be pushed inside locked doors, as it was in Communist Russia. Did I miss anything?

What can i say---he reads Molly Ivins.

vaudine

[CyberAnt]

Hey, was anybody watching Hannity tonight! It was hysterical! Max Cleland was on talking to Colmes. Hannity got on and ask Cleland to explain why if Kerry was such a great military hero, Kerry had voted against so many of the military systems, and then Hannity started naming them off (most of which are not deployed in Iraq). The look on Cleland's face was stunning .. THEN CLELAND JUST CHANGED THE SUBJECT AND HE NEVER WOULD ADDRESS THE QUESTION HANNITY ASKED HIM.

THAT'S KERRY'S WEAK POINT .. ALL THE VOTES AGAINST ALL THE MILITARY EQUIPMENT .. THIS IS GREAT NEWS! AND THE BEST PART IS THEY KNOW IT'S A WEAK POINT OR THEY WOULDN'T HAVE IGNORED IT.

It was great to watch Cleland trying to avoid discussing all the votes. Priceless!!!

[CyberAnt]

which are not deployed in Iraq) = which are now deployed in Iraq)

Sorry for the confusion

[Pitchfork]

Communism was an unsustainable, government-directed plan-based economic system without any potential for innovation because it lacked a proper incentive structure. Given that communism collapsed generally out of its inability to transition from a simple heavy-industrial economy (coal and steel) which it was VERY good at (witness the trouncing of the Germans) to a an economic system based on complex high-tech manufacturing and later information technology (which the US managed in the 1970's and 80's-witness the decline of the rust belt and the rise of Silicon Valley), I hardly think Kerry was wrong to claim that communism was vastly over-rated! IT WAS! The domino theory was a load of bunk, so was the 'monolithic communist bloc nonsense of the 50's. Sure it might have spread to a few economic backwaters but it was eventually doomed. We just needed to wait it out!

[Howlin]

What I can't figure out is why Max Cleland keeps talking about Bush getting out of the Guard early to go to business school.

Didn't Kerry get out early to run for election? Didn't Kerry use a special regulation to get the hell out of Vietnam?

[spunkets]

"Sure it might have spread to a few economic backwaters but it was eventually doomed."

What do you think the democratic party is composed of?

"government-directed plan-based economic system'

What do you hear at election time? It's the economy stupid. What's Kerry's game and what do his supporters want?