Posted on 09/21/2004 9:00:52 PM PDT by Cableguy
What a POS article. F^cking LMSM typical response.
For Kerry, "both delegations" meant the two Communist delegations. The delegation from the South Vietnamese government didn't count--or wasn't interested in talking to him.
Why can't we just make some records? Danny boy from SeeBS knows how to get the job done! If you can't find records, you just make em!
I cannot stop wondering if kerry himself had something to do with NVn keeping some of the POW's.
They kept them for at least 2 reasons, first to assure actual withdrawal after the release of only 591 POW's; and second, as 'insurance' toward "reparations" to be paid to Vn (it was never paid).
There are still 107 POW's known to have been alive and in enemy hands who were not released or otherwise accounted for. Kerry's actions while the chair of the Select Committee on POW/MIA are history.....he and McCain capped the issue and then kerry was instrumental in opening diplomatic and business relations with Vn soon afterward.
What a silly argument. Meeting secretly implies you met secretly.
It does not say anything about keeping silent about it for all eternity.
The Post was obviously a bit understaffed today.
They stuck their Style beat reporter on a hard news story, never a good idea.
E-mail him (as charitably as possible), telling him that secret meetings are secret at the time of the meeting, but not necessarily a year later. Secret events can be made public after the fact, and the Swifties only are saying he met secretly, not that it was kept such.
Paul Farhi:
farhip@washpost.com
Washington Post does their best to try to clean up for Kerry, but this is a stain that just won't come out.
So we have his sworn testimony that, as a low grade Navy officer on Reserve status, he had met with two factions of the enemy. Undoubtedly he can show us documentation of his officially sanctioned authority to represent the U.S. at those talks so that we know he isn't guilty of treason of the highest order. Right?
And I'm sure most of us could do a better job of it, too.
Did he vote for it (assassination plot) before he voted against it?
No no no he met secretly with them before he met publicly with them.
Did he vote for it (assassination plot) before he voted against it?
We know he Persuaded the MIA/POW Senate committee to vote unanimously that no POWs existed in Vietnam in order to open up trade with Vietnam (his cousin C. Stewart Forbes, CEO of Colliers Intl, received a contract for a huge commercial deal worth at least $905 million to develop a deep-sea commercial port at Vung Tau). For more on the POW/MIA issue, here is a great article: When John Kerry's Courage Went M.I.A. - Senator covered up evidence of P.O.W.'s left behindWe know he blocked the vote on the Vietnam Human Rights Act in the Senate in 2001, which tied U.S. aid to Vietnam's human rights performance, and had passed by a 410-1 margin in the House of Representatives. Kerry, chairman of the Senate's East Asian and Pacific Affairs subcommittee, said in a statement at the time that he and fellow Vietnam War veteran Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) "are concerned that denying aid to Vietnam would actually slow human rights improvements." Many Vietnamese living abroad, along with human rights campaigners, say conditions in Vietnam have deteriorated in the three years since Kerry blocked the legislation.
For more, check out the John F. Kerry Timeline. Email it to your friends, post on your blogs.
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Exactly, what Kerry did was admit to Congress that he had secretly met with the Vietnamese in Paris.
Historian Douglas Brinkley said Kerry's trip to Paris, after his honeymoon with his first wife, Julia Thorne, was part of Kerry's extensive fact-finding efforts on the war. "He was on the fringes," said Brinkley, the author of "Tour of Duty," a book about Kerry's military service. "But he was proud of it. . . . He wanted to make his own evaluation of the situation."
How arrogant can anyone possibly be? Why does Kerry have a right to walk on the edge and proclaim to be proud of it because HE wanted to do HIS OWN evaluation......
Gee maybe a few of us should go to Iraq and Afghanistan and do our own evaluation.....how far do you think we would get?
I think it may even extend beyond that block.
Americans have a laten sense of right and wrong, of honor and dishonor. The word "Traitor" still resonates as does the instinctual response to execute one when found.
Even those not connected to military are going to view these ads and come away from a distaste for Kerry. They don't like the protesters that have hit the streets during our current war, linking John to them will hurt badly.
He did secretly meet with the Enemy. And he did so more than once. WaPo shouldn't be in the business of defending John Kerry no matter what.
Okay, Which are the lucky 5 battleground states?
I'd aim them at Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Maine and Washington???
equates Kerry with Vietnam War protester Jane Fonda and accuses the Democratic presidential nominee of secretly meeting with "enemy leaders" during the conflict.
Know my favorite part, how the heck do you justify quotation marks around "enemy leaders". Does the Wash. Post not consider the leaders of North Vietnam during the Vietnam war as "enemy leaders"? Says a lot doesn't it.
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