NICARAGUA: Don't forget 'The John Kerry Committee'

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[VOA]

Viva La Revolucion! (sp?)

[Rome2000]

Lets hope his pic isn't hanging in Baghdad one day too.

Photograph of John Kerry meeting with Comrade Do Muoi, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, in Vietnam, July 15-18, 1993. Photo taken in the War Remnants Museum (formerly the "War Crimes Museum") in Saigon in May 2004.

Boy, Kerry sure likes meeting with Communists!

I'm starting to suspect the Democrats are running a COM-SYMP for President, but that's just me.

Look, there's Tom Harkin and Kerry with their Sandinista buddy Ortega.

What were they doing meeting with that communist SOB anyway?.

They sure look HAPPY to see him!.

Birds of a feather

[Rome2000]

17 April 1984
The Wall Street Journal

This is the text of a letter sent by 10 members of the U.S. House of Representatives to Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua's Sandinista junta. An editorial on this subject appears nearby. House of Representatives

Office of the Majority Leader

Washington, D.C., 20313

March 20, 1984

Comandante Daniel Ortega

Coordinador de la Junta de Gobierno Casa de Gobierno

Managua, Nicaragua

Dear Comandante:

We address this letter to you in a spirit of hopefulness and good will.

As Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, we regret the fact that better relations do not exist between the United States and your country. We have been, and remain, opposed to U.S. support for military action directed against the people or government of Nicaragua.

We want to commend you and the members of your government for taking steps to open up the political process in your country. The Nicaraguan people have not had the opportunity to participate in a genuinely free election for over 50 years. We support your decision to schedule elections this year, to reduce press censorship, and to allow greater freedom of assembly for political parties. Finally, we recognize that you have taken these steps in the midst of ongoing military hostilities on the borders of Nicaragua.

We write with the hope that the initial steps you have taken will be followed by others designed to guarantee a fully open and democratic electoral process. We note that some who have become exiles from Nicaragua have expressed a willingness to return to participate in the elections, if assurances are provided that their security will be protected, and their political rights recognized. Among these exiles are some who have taken up arms against your government, and who have stated their willingness to lay down those arms to participate in a truly democratic process.

If this were to occur, the prospects for peace and stability throughout Central America would be dramatically enhanced. Those responsible for supporting violence against your government, and for obstructing serious negotiations for broad political participation in El Salvador would have far greater difficulty winning support for their policies than they do today.

We believe that you have it in your power to establish an example for Central America that can be of enormous historical importance. For this to occur, you have only to lend real force and meaning to concepts your leadership has already endorsed concerning the rules by which political parties may compete openly and equitably for political power.

A decision on your part to provide these reasonable assurances and conduct truly free and open elections would significantly improve the prospect of better relations between our two countries and significantly strengthen the hands of those in our country who desire better relations based upon true equality, self-determination and mutual good will.

We reaffirm to you our continuing respect and friendship for the Nicaraguan people, and pledge our willingness to discuss these or other matters of concern with you or officials of your government at any time. Very sincerely yours,

Jim Wright

Michael D. Barnes

Bill Alexander

Matthew F. McHugh

Robert G. Torricelli

Edward P. Boland

Stephen J. Solarz

David R. Obey

Robert Garcia

Lee H. Hamilton

[Eckelsville]

Danny Ortega wore $300 sunglasses. Do you suppopse he got them from Kerry?

[Free ThinkerNY]

Like most Rats, Kerry never met a Commie he didn't like. He's the Frenchurian Candidate.

[christie]

Funny how Kerry doesn't want to talk about Nicaragua and his wonderful record in the Senate!

[Free ThinkerNY]

If you had a record like his, you wouldn't want to talk about it either.

[citizen]

bttt

[christie]

And they are worried about Bush maybe missing one physical.

Even O'Reilly won't look at Kerry's record.

Not asking to distort the record, just put out the bare facts.

When if FNC going to look at Nicaragua????

[joesnuffy]

But how does Bubba fit into Mena...and all that nose candy....and all the dead including brutally murdered kids and all those planes for all those years and all those billions in narco dollars.....

And the magically disappearing witnesses.....done in with precision and great professionalism..

Let's just pretend none of it ever happend...kinda like Clinton's impeachment for sex instead of treason....

Too many secrets...

imo

[citizen]

For The Kerry Committee "closed" meant closed to the press for any testimony that contradicted the crackpot accusations of Committee's Christic Institute mentors and its felon witnessers — but wide open for any testimony that backed the smear about Vice President Bush as a cocaine smuggler for the Contras with Felix as his trouble-shooter. Rodriguez noticed that the Miami Herald mentioned, "unnamed congressional sources," for it's slanders. Leaks anyone?

SOP for any Senate committee.
Dimocrats leak if they are in the majority.
Dimocrats leak if they are in the minority.
Oh...er, Republicans do, too. But they're less nasty, IMO.

No wonder FnKerry so wants to avoid discussing his first term.

[christie]

Leaking the truth is one thing.

I suspect Kerry was leaking mostly lies. And coercing testimony.

[Fedora]

Thanks for the ping!

The commie-crackpot Christic Institute and Institute for Policy Studies served as the Kerry Committee's advisors. The latter had arranged his Nicaragua trip.

[citizen]

bttt