It seems Kerry talked about it AFTERWARDS, but NOT before, the WP is trying to whitewash it, but I think it actually just makes it worse.
"The meeting, however, was not a secret. Kerry, a leading antiwar activist at the time, mentioned it in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in April of that year. "I have been to Paris," he testified. "I have talked with both delegations at the peace talks, that is to say the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and Provisional Revolutionary Government," the latter a South Vietnamese communist group with ties to the Viet Cong.
Um, he secretly met with them BEFORE testifying in Congress. Unless, of course, he put out statements immediately after the Parisian meetings that said he just met with the NVA.
Telling Congress about it one year later doesn't mean he didn't meet with them secretly the previous year.
"I have been to Paris. I have talked with both delegations at the peace talks, that is to say the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government and of all eight of Madam Binh's points it has been stated time and time again, and was stated by Senator Vance Hartke when he returned from Paris, and it has been stated by many other officials of this Government, if the United States were to set a date for withdrawal the prisoners of war would be returned."
Check out the John F. Kerry Timeline. Email it to your friends.
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Well, I know that he refuses to reveal what hwe discussed with them, he says he can't remember, which is preposterous. I don't recall how secret the meeting was, it wasn't held in public though. The real story is that he met with them at all, as an anti war zealot.
I see the Post is lying again, saying that some charges made by the Swift Vets have been refuted.
Looks like the Swifties are getting to the liberals!
Hannity said "UNFIT FOR COMMAND" is still #1 on the NY Times list.
Keep the ads on the air. Donate to the Swiftvets.
( and watch their latest ad, if you haven't seen it yet)
http://www.swiftvets.com
Cool, the Wash Post is reporting about the ad. That'll do just fine
Umm, This ad is not targeted toward the civilians of the US. It is targeted to the Nam Vets, to stir up their feelings towards Jane, and associate it with sKeery. Great move.
Afterward, not before!
Apparently those morons at WAPO don't know that Kerry met with the VietCong delegation in Paris, but NOT with the American delegation (nor did he tell the American delegation he was even in town).
I think the Kerry campaign should focus the next 6 weeks exclusively on hard-hitting ads showing that Kerry's negotiations with the enemy in Paris really weren't "secret" and that he actually voted against the assassination plot in Kansas City. That would show his "fighting mood," and I'm sure a majority of voters would flock to his side.
The previous year, actually. Kerry met with North Vietnamese and Vietcong leaders in Paris in late May or early June of 1970. His infamous testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations was on April 22, 1971.
"Home to War" author Gerald Nicosia wrote that a second Kerry confab in Paris is documented in the VVAW FBI files, but I haven't found any indication when that occurred or where that reference is...
Senator, I will say this. I think that politically, historically,the one thing that people try to do, that society is structured on as a whole, is an attempt to satisfy their felt needs, and you can satisfy those needs with almost any kind of political structure, giving it one name or the other. In this name it is democratic; in other it is communism; in others it is benevolent dictatorship. As long as those needs are satisfied, that structure will exist.
To him there is not much difference between communism and democracy as long as you satisfy peoples needs. It is now clear to me why he has no idea what the President's vision is, freedom and democracy really aren't the issue to John Effin Kerry.
Wasn't Kerry still an officially commisioned naval officer at the time he met with the NV delegation? That alone poses lots of juicy issues...
What a POS article. F^cking LMSM typical response.
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.
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?
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.