Posted on 09/07/2004 7:47:06 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Writing in a February 26, 2004 National Review article, Ion Mihai Pacepa a former spy chief and a General in the former Soviet satellite of Romania indicates that the Vietnam-era antiwar movement got its spin from the Russian Kremlin.
He writes "I produced the very same vitriol Kerry repeated to the U.S. Congress almost word for word and planted it in leftist movements throughout Europe. KGB chairman Yuri Andropov managed our anti-Vietnam War operation. He often bragged about having damaged the U.S. foreign-policy consensus, poisoned domestic debate in the U.S., and built a credibility gap between American and European public opinion through our disinformation operations. Vietnam was, he once told me, "our most significant success."
(Excerpt) Read more at michnews.com ...
They take duplicty for granted as one of their "rights", just as the Islamofascists can rationalize anything in thier "holy" causes.
Just let conservatives be suspected of using any of their tactics though...nothing throws them into a spoiled-brat-hissy-fit faster than defense of the double standard they visciously hold to.
Both articles ignore Kerry's antiwar statements before he went into the Navy, not counting the months spent in the delayed enlistment program, when one is technically in the Navy reserve as an E-1. Kerry was definitely his father's son on that. I suspect his desire to look like a later day JF Kennedy had more to do with his desire for political office than any conversation to the "bear any burden" school of thought. A school obviously not shared by JF Kennedy's two younger brothers, most especially the surviving one.
Duped and DOPED........I believe he's hitting Ter-ay-za's meds!
Let us recall the period: in the late 70’s and early 80’s, European streets were teeming with "peace" demonstrators protesting NATO’s plans to site medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe. At the center of the campaign were European socialists and social democrats, many of them holding government office in their own countries or positions in the main opposition parties......All in all, Moscow gave away $400 million over twenty years, and that does not include other, indirect forms of financing (also clear in the documents). In that period the French Communist party received, by my calculations, no less than $44 million worth of "international solidarity," the CPUSA $35 million...
...NOT ALL the assistance Moscow provided to foreign Communists can be measured in dollars. Here before me is a handwritten request from Gus Hall, general secretary of the CPUSA, on behalf of Comrade James Jackson, a leading Marxist theoretician of the American party very keen to be awarded an honorary doctorate in the field of history. Surely this should not be too hard to arrange with Moscow State University? Why, of course not, comrades! As the accompanying memo from the International Department notes, not only would this serve "to raise [Jackson’s] authority in democratic Negro circles," it would also "make it possible for him to secure a teaching post at New York University, where the party has lately been working actively." Looking for a job? It paid to have friends in the right places...
...After all, Western politicians and academics, Western intellectuals and churchmen, Western businessman and journalists encouraged relations with the Soviet bloc-that is to say, with cut-throats and the puppets of cut-throats. Some of them signed agreements for "cultural exchanges," "scientific cooperation," and "human contacts," knowing full well that the KGB would be choosing the candidates for such contacts, and that they were in fact buttressing its power over society. Others apologized for Soviet actions around the globe, or denied Soviet complicity in those actions, often by impugning anyone who tried to resist or thwart them. Many understood what was going on but, in thrall to the golden dream of socialism, remained silent, sacrificing conscience, reason, innocent people, and entire countries in the process.
LOL.
While he was waking up excruciatingly slowly to having been duped all his life,
he was duped at least a dozen more times.
"ethnocentric accommodation -- everyone ought to be like us." = American Cultural Imperialism is what they call it today.
He writes "I produced the very same vitriol Kerry repeated to the U.S. Congress almost word for word and planted it in leftist movements throughout Europe. KGB chairman Yuri Andropov managed our anti-Vietnam War operation. He often bragged about having damaged the U.S. foreign-policy consensus, poisoned domestic debate in the U.S., and built a credibility gap between American and European public opinion through our disinformation operations. Vietnam was, he once told me, "our most significant success."
Ping....
b&lLSHI& HE WAS REFUSED DEFERMENT AND ENLISTED IN THE NAVY.
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