Posted on 10/23/2004 1:31:33 PM PDT by Rome2000
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Is this the "surprise" story Powerline and others have been talking about today ..??
All I can say is .. I hope they take McCain down with him.
I don't know, but it if its not, it had better be as good as this.
This is the heart of my hatred for this man. He betrayed us on our service, he betrayed those that were left behind to die in captivity. Tell everyone you know to read/investigate this.
He would rather blame it all on Dubya but the truth is out there.......
IT'S ABOUT THE POWs.
"wasnt Senator Mccain, the man who will speak no evil about John Kerry on this same committee"
That's the same question I had.I'm sure they took at least one trip to Nam together.
... He rejected all suggestions that the committee require former presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush to testify...
And what about Carter?
Answer: Benedict Arnold was a real American war hero!
BINGO!
Wasn't it Carter that gave him the Honorable Discharge?
While all that's said about sKerry is surely true, let's nott forget about Sen. John McLame and his abandonment of POW-MIAs and his mealy-mouthed condemnation of the Swiftees!
Nobody in the MSM cared, and Kerry and his komrades thought they would be able to squeak by without the fact coming out that he gave up the American vietnam pows in a mad dash to normalize relations with this bunch of communist murderers.
Like usual, he was wrong.
After this investigation there were no more sightings of P.O.W.s from S.E. Asia leading me to believe that they were rounded up and disposed of.
He is without doubt the most despicable human being on earth...I'm starting a fitness program tomorrow to see if I can outlive the bastard so I can go pi$$ on his grave.
BTT. I'll be back later. Remarkable that this is in the Village Voice.
Sydney H. Schanberg, associate editor and columnist for New York Newsday and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist veteran of the Indochina War whose book, The Death and Life of Dith Pran, became the subject of the Academy Award-winning film The Killing Fields, chronicled some of Kerry's more blatant pro-Hanoi biases in several of his columns.
In a Nov. 21, 1993 column, Schanberg wrote, "Highly credible information has been surfacing in recent days which indicates that the headlines you have been reading about a 'breakthrough' in Hanoi's cooperation on the POW/MIA issue are part of a carefully scripted performance. The apparent purpose is to move toward normalization of relations with Hanoi.
"Sen. John F. Kerry, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, is one of the key figures pushing for normalization. Kerry is currently on a visit to Vietnam where he has been doing two things: (1) praising the Vietnamese effusively for granting access to their war archives and (2) telling the press that there's no believable evidence to back up the stories of live POWs still being held. "Ironically, that very kind of live-POW evidence has been brought to Kerry's own committee on a regular basis over the past year, and he has repeatedly sought to impeach its value.
Moreover, Kerry and his allies on the committee - such as Sens. John McCain, Nancy Kassebaum and Tom Daschle - have worked to block much of this evidence from being made public."
The Kerry committee's bogus findings gave the communists the green light to execute the remaining POW's in captivity.
In 1991, the United States Senate created the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs to examine the possibility that U.S. POW/MIAs might still be held by the Vietnamese.
As chairman of the Select Committee, Kerry proved himself to be a masterful chameleon portraying to the public at large what appeared to be an unbiased approach to resolving the POW/MIA issue.
But, in reality, no one in the United States Senate pushed harder to bury the POW/MIA issue, the last obstacle preventing normalization of relations with Hanoi, than John Forbes Kerry.
In fact, his first act as chairman was to travel to Southeast Asia, where during a stopover in Bangkok, Thailand, he lectured the U.S. Chamber of Commerce there on the importance of lifting the trade embargo and normalizing relations with Vietnam.
During the entire life of the Senate Select Committee, Kerry never missed a chance to propaganderize and distort the facts in favor of Hanoi.
C. Stewart Forbes, Chief Executive Officer of Colliers International (Kerry's cousin), was awarded a contract worth billions designating Colliers International as the exclusive real estate agent representing Vietnam.
In December of 1992, not long after Kerry was quoted in the world press stating "President Bush should reward Vietnam within a month for its increased cooperation in accounting for American MIAs," Vietnam announced it had granted Boston, Massachusetts based Colliers International, a contract worth billions. Colliers International became exclusive real estate agent representing Vietnam.
That deal alone put Colliers in a position to make tens of millions of dollars on the rush to upgrade Vietnam's ports, railroads, highways, government buildings, etc.
n the Senate debate itself, Kerry, rather than embarass Vietnam by demanding the truth, launched a highly publicized diversionary investigation of the POW/MIA families and activists, who were demanding an honest accounting.
Kerry labeled them "professional malcontents, conspiracy mongers, con artists, and dime-store Rambos" who were only involved in the POW/MIA issue for money.
Pictured right, Sen. John Kerry in Hanoi seated under a bust of Communist Vietnam's deceased leader, Ho Chi Minh.
Schanberg has been on to this international socialism stalking horse for a long time.
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