Posted on 05/06/2004 12:15:10 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:21:40 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
May 6, 2004 -- IT was bizarre yesterday to hear John Kerry criticize President Bush over the Iraqi prisoner-abuse scandal, considering Kerry publicly confessed to committing war "atrocities" when he served in Vietnam. "Yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers," Kerry told "Meet the Press" in 1971, ticking off "free-fire zones" and burning villages in violation of the Geneva Convention.
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Actually Kerry has recanted (several times I believe). The one transcript I've read is from an interview with Tim Russert in 2001. He characterized his claims of committing war crimes to be the words of an "angry young man" (a LIE). To lie to the media repeatedly (as well as Congress even if he wasn't under oath) in a time of war provides aid and comfort to the enemy. It is an act of treason. Axis Sally was convicted of treason after WWII.
Just my opinion of course....Stay Safe !
Dimocrats I talk with seem to think that it should not only be pardoned because he was courageous enough to testify to it, but that he should be commended as another level of hero.
W.Va. reservist caught up in a storm of controversy***FORT ASHBY, W.Va. - Lynndie England loved a good storm. Growing up in West Virginia, in a quiet crossroads of a town called Fort Ashby, she would seek them out. During tornado warnings, her mother recalls, she would have to drag her daughter back inside the house. Meteorology, her former teachers say, was the career she wanted to pursue - specifically, as a storm chaser.
Now, the storm has found England. The 21-year-old Army reservist is perhaps the most visible character in the controversy over the abuse of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison: the thumbs-up, pixieish, T-shirted soldier, smiling, pointing and posing for the camera with naked and humiliated Iraqi inmates.
Terrie England, still waiting yesterday to hear whether her daughter was going to be charged criminally, has seen the photographs more times than she can stand. "It's all over the news, but we're not hearing anything new. They just keep showing the pictures," she said. "How many times do I have to see those pictures?"
Sitting in their living room, Lynndie England's parents say they are convinced she was not involved in any interrogations, that she was not part of any abuse and that she is not getting a fair shake from the military she loved.
Since January, they say, she has been asking for legal representation and gotten none. For the past month, she has been restricted to the Army base at Fort Bragg, N.C., awaiting word on what repercussions she faces for, in their view, being in the wrong place at the wrong time and being photographed there.
They have not seen her since just before Christmas, when she was home on two weeks' leave. Sick, tired, coughing and about 25 pounds lighter than when she left, she spent most of the time sleeping, they say.
An independent sort known to speak her mind, Lynndie England joined the Reserves while she was a junior at Frankfort High School in Ridgely, W.Va. She was known for doing her work, causing no trouble, and for wearing combat boots and camouflage fatigues to school. After her junior year, while most students were on vacation or at summer jobs, she went to basic training. ***
Is her platform going to be "I'm not Kerry"?
No, Hil-liar doesn't need a platform. She'll wait until the last minute to jump on board so that there won't be time to investigate her past for the general public.
"When I was in Vietnam, (did I mention I was in Vietnam?)we didn't take prisoners. We'd finish them off with our M-16's. Can't get a Silver Star by taking prisoners. Anyway, if we did take prisoners, we would have never made them strip and make fun of them. That would have been wrong."
So sometimes he doesn't flip-flop, but instead sticks to his story. Hmmm...
Oops...
04/19/04 - The Federal Election Commission has opened a formal probe into a star-studded Aug. 12, 2000 Hollywood fundraiser for then-first lady Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign, Fox News Channel reported on Sunday. And some say the development is at least partly responsible for Sen. Clinton's claim that she's not interested in joining John Kerry's presidential ticket.Background:The allegations themselves are not new: Two of the event's organizers, Hollywood producer Peter Paul and charity fundraiser Aaron Tonken, have detailed a series of transactions undertaken in conjunction with Hillary's campaign that could violate FEC regulations, with Paul charging that the campaign failed to report nearly $2 million he spent producing the event.
But months before Paul was returned to the U.S. to stand trial in the stock case, Hollywood fundraiser Aaron Tonken began cooperating with federal probers. Tonken has said that he's a star witness against the Clintons in a federal grand jury probe in New York into Mr. Clinton's Marc Rich pardon - and has been cooperating with the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles who's probing his fundraising activities.
FEC Heat Hurts Hillary's VP Chances
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton surely hopes that history isn't repeating itself with the raid conducted by the FBI last month on another warehouse; this one chock full of documents from her 2000 Senatorial campaign."The documents were seized in a May 30 raid of a California storage facility containing documents of Peter Paul, the entrepreneur who funded Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign with over $2 million dollars in direct, in-kind contributions which were never reported by Hillary Clinton or her Senate campaign, as required by law," revealed the public interest law firm Judicial Watch in a press release late last week.
FBI Raids Hillary's Warehouse in Whitewater Deja Vu
The Bush administration has quietly done an about-face on allegations that New York Sen. Hillary Clinton broke campaign finance laws in 2000 - with the Justice Department preparing to extradite one-time Clinton fund-raiser Peter Paul to the U.S. as part of a plea deal for his testimony. The sudden action on Paul's case comes just weeks after reports surfaced that former Hollywood fund-raiser Aaron Tonken has supplied damaging testimony about Hillary Clinton's fund-raising practices.
"I'm a star witness against President and Mrs. Clinton," Tonken claimed in a recent report on his case in Vanity Fair magazine, explaining that prosecutors wanted his testimony about" "fundraising activities that I've done on behalf of the Clintons." The exact nature of Tonken's allegations against Sen. Clinton remains secret, the magazine said. But the celebrity moneyman is known to have been involved in the August 2000 fund raiser that is at the heart of Peter Paul's allegations.
Peter F. Paul, the flamboyant Hollywood entrepreneur who says Hillary Rodham Clinton has hidden almost $2 million of in-kind contributions he made to her campaign in 2000, is back from Brazil and promising to raise a ruckus about the New York senator as he fights bizarre securities and bank-fraud charges on which he's been indicted. Aaron Tonken, a political operative in Hollywood and a former protégé of Paul under indictment for a variety of alleged sharp deals with the rich and famous, also is promising to tell everything he knows about behind-the-scenes shenanigans of Clinton and many others.
Clintons' Fall Guy May Turn the Tables (Peter Paul)
Mr. Paul has substantial, documentary evidence detailing his close relationship with the Clintons and his funding of the Hollywood tribute, including cancelled checks, hand-written thank you notes from the Clintons, and photographs. Also named in the complaint is Clinton fundraiser David Rosen, Clinton friend James Levin, and Hollywood celebrity fundraiser Aaron Tonken, who currently is under criminal investigation for his role in other Hollywood fundraisers. As a result of Mr. Paul’s disclosures, federal authorities have launched an investigation into the Clintons and other matters. Mr. Paul, who is facing alleged (and related) stock and bank fraud charges, remains eager to cooperate with federal authorities.
Thank you for playing Ms. Clinton, we have some lovely parting gifts for you...these exquisite matching stainless steel bracelets and an all-expense paid trip to beautiful Danbury, Connecticut. Now...who will be our next contestant? COME ON DOWN!
[Note: For those that don't get it...Danbury is the Federal Penitentiary mentioned in all of the Martha Stewart articles]
* Kerry still has no war room, despite Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's warning that it's vital. Ex-Clinton staffer Howard Wolfson was hired to run a war room, but left after 41/2 days. Word is, other Kerry aides felt threatened.From this story about Hillary caught in lie over her Arab media interview:
Joe Scarborough, on MSNBC’s ''Scarborough Country'' apparently got a scathing phone call from Clinton’s office after he mentioned her interview. He invited Howard Wolfson, Sen. Clinton’s former press secretary/communications director/whatever the heck they call themselves these days, to respond to his staff’s investigation. And respond Wolfson did. Vociferously. Vehemently. Venomously. But, unfortunately, not very accurately. Perhaps because there’s no synonym that begins with ''v''....
"Seven -and climbing," says a New York Dem.
Now, do I hear eight? Bwahahahhaha!!
Prairie
I bet Lloyds of London won't sell this guy life insurance.
Do ya think Leaky Leahy is APPALLED at Kerry's actions??
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