Vietnam-Era Kerry Saw a (U.S.) Military Led by U.N. [Treason Alert!]

NY Times ^ | 2.12.04

[ambrose]

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February 12, 2004

Vietnam-Era Kerry Saw a Military Led by U.N.

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

ASHINGTON, Feb. 11 ? The student newspaper at Harvard University has unearthed a 34-year-old interview with Senator John Kerry, in which Mr. Kerry, then fresh out of Vietnam and an underdog candidate for Congress, suggested that he would cede authority over the military to the United Nations and rein in, or perhaps eliminate, the C.I.A.

"I'm an internationalist," Mr. Kerry told the newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, on Feb. 18, 1970. "I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations."

The Crimson, which published a recap of the 1970 article on Wednesday, reported that Mr. Kerry also said he wanted to "almost eliminate C.I.A. activity."

"The C.I.A. is fighting its own war in Laos," he said, "and nobody seems to care."

David Wade, a spokesman for Mr. Kerry, said the comments, which are at odds with the senator's current statements, reflect the sentiments of "a 26-year-old Vietnam veteran angry at the Nixon White House's indifference to soldiers dying on the front lines thousands of miles away."

As a presidential candidate, Mr. Kerry has said that "American security must never be ceded to any institution or to another institution's decision," and has not called for cutting back the C.I.A.

Still, the article is generating attention among Republicans, some of whom cite it as evidence that the senator has been inconsistent on national defense.

"His rhetoric and his record often are canyons apart," said Scott Stanzel, a spokesman for the Bush re-election campaign.

Mr. Kerry, who had overwhelming victories in Tuesday night's primaries in Virginia and Tennessee, is spending Wednesday and Thursday at his home in Washington, with no public appearances scheduled, before heading off on Friday to campaign in Wisconsin and Las Vegas.

"The man needs some rest," Mr. Wade said.

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[FairOpinion]

And listen to this, Jane Fonda is defending Kerry's patriotism!

ROTFL!!!!!!

"Actress Jane Fonda defended John Kerry's patriotism Wednesday after a photograph of her sitting near the Democratic presidential front-runner at a 1970 anti-Vietnam war rally surfaced on several Internet sites. "

http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=64515

[Sir Valentino]

Jeepers!

Is there no *END* to Kerry's *TREASON*???

He should be *COURT MARTIALED*!

[ambrose]

Jane Fonda defending Kerry's patriotism??

Isn't that like having Henry the 8th defend someone's table manners?

[FairOpinion]

Here is a link to the actual Harvard Crimson interview:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1075941/posts

"Kerry said that the United Nations should have control over most of our foreign military operations. "I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations."

On other issues, Kerry wants "to almost eliminate CIA activity."

[FairOpinion]

Removed comment body due to complaint from Corbis. Please do not post or link Corbis material.

[Jeff Chandler]

White, wheat, or rye? (White, of course.) Any way you look at it, Kerry's toast.

[LdSentinal]

That's like having OJ Simpson defending Scott Peterson's innocence.

[goldstategop]

You can't blame Jean F. Cheri for being warmly disposed to putting the Eurotrash and the U.N ahead of American interests for decades. He may be a flip flopper on some issues but his devotion to diminishing America's role in the world has been a consistent thread running throughout his career.

[LdSentinal]

Ho Chi Kerry looks like Gomer Pyle in that picture.

[kcvl]

Mr. John "Mainstream America" Heinz Kerry says...

"I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations."

[goldstategop]

I don't recall even Bubba going THAT far in a penchant to have a multilateralist foreign policy.

[FairOpinion]

Never mind what he said during the Vietnam era -- he is saying the same thing TODAY.

I just found and reposted Kerry's speech on foreign policy, which consists of selling us out to the UN and the terrorists. He would normalize relatios with the extremist regime of Iran too...

It's a long speech, but it's a "must read".

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1076567/posts

[NYCVirago]

I couldn't find anything on the NYTimes site about the John Kerry-Jane Fonda picture. It's funny how the Times could even do up a hi-tech graphic showing us Bush's every moment during his Guard service, yet they couldn't publish a sentence about this photo, and of Fonda's defense of Kerry yesterday.

[rebel_yell2]

Thanks to Kerry and Torecelli, CIA ground ops were emasculated, leading to the lack of credible intelligence in the Middle East. Isn't it time for them to step up to the plate and take the blame? Nooooo!!! They want to push off the consequences of their actions onto Bush.

[rebel_yell2]

NY Slimes is becoming more and more like Pravda during the Cold War, ignoring the real stories that other news outlets were reporting. Just like Pravda, the NY Slimes will become more and more reviled.

[kcvl]

Intelligence personnel would be reeducated under a battery of sensitivity-training seminars and diversity classes, some taught by outside consultants with professional ties to activist advocacy groups claiming "victim" status for their members. Many employees were compelled to take time off from intelligence work to join collective workshops to make colorful, vibrant "diversity quilts."

After reporting about the CIA diversity quilts ("Blinded Vigilance," Oct. 15), Insight requested permission to visit CIA headquarters and photograph them. The CIA declined the request, and a spokeswoman went so far as adamantly to deny their existence, claiming that maybe a decade ago some intelligence offers voluntarily had sewn one. The intelligence officers who were forced to make them, and who pleaded for anonymity against reprisal from holdovers in the CIA management, are adamant that under Tenet they were pressured to make pieces of the diversity quilts. Apparently, under CIA security restrictions, such programs are revealed only on a need-to-know basis.

"They made us sit and talk to groups about how it feels when someone makes an insensitive remark," a mid-level CIA officer tells Insight. "It was all very condescending and insulting."

Almost none of the more than 20 employees and officials that Insight surveyed in the national-security and intelligence communities -- including the CIA, DIA, FBI and departments of Defense, Energy and State -- see any real value to the sensitivity-training courses and diversity programs that became so important under Bill Clinton, except where the specific hiring of, say, a native speaker of Pashto would further U.S. objectives to collect intelligence or conduct operations. Some call it little more than brainwashing.

[opbuzz]

"I'm an internationalist," Mr. Kerry told the newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, on Feb. 18, 1970.

Was he admitting he was a communist?
Progressive is the euphemism for communist.

Like here
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/6368/

http://www.internationalistbooks.org/

http://www.internationalist.org/

http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/

[NYCVirago]

I couldn't find anything about the Fonda-Kerry pic on the Washington Post's website either, although they managed to have yet another huge article about Bush's guard service, including a quote from that Bartlett guy who claimed that the Bush people threw his file in the trash. Needless to say, the reporter didn't note that the guy has an ax to grind.

[onyx]

Isn't that like having Henry the 8th defend someone's table manners?

ROFLOL!