Kerry exposed? The source of the name of Hanoi John's yacht.

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[dirtboy]

Scaramouche???

Nah, that's a scary douche...

[Chode]

heard that...

[Interesting Times]

24-beers-in-a-case ping.

John Kerry sez: you never forget your first yacht...

[angkor]

Rodney, you're on to something here.

We all know that Kerry is a twisted individual with regard to the Vietnam period: he "visited Cambodia"; he "speaks Vietnamese"; he was "wounded three times." Lies, all of them, and Kerry has shown no restraint whatsoever in saying these things. Even trying to defend them when caught redhanded in the above lies.

So there's no doubt he would take yet another perverse pleasure in monumentalizing his seditious behavior post-1972 by naming his boat after the very same m.o. used by Fowler: "I was out watching Scaramouche" while engineering the destruction of both South Vietnamese and American foreign policy by collaborating with the Viet Minh Communists.

This is precisely the sort of sick humor that Kerry would love. Especially broadcasting his sedition and treason on the back of his boat. Yes, he would revel in promoting this joke on the "stupid" American public.

By the way, in "The Quiet American" Fowler's girlfriend Phoung is devastated and shamed by Fowler's actions, and goes back to being a dancehall girl despite Fowler's murderous plot.

In SE Asia, upwards of 3 million people died after Kerry's equally murderous handiwork.

"I was out watching Scaramouche", indeed.

[Pietro]

This might make sense except for the fact that Greene was not a left leaning athiest.

Greene was a convert to Roman Catholicsm and a British patriot. One of his latter books "Monsignor Quixote" (my very favorite book of all time)is a heart warming celebration of Christian faith vs Communist propoganda. I can't recommend it highly enough.

I have read several Greene novels and have never perceived any sympathy for communism.

[Rockingham]

Dead on the mark. Coincidences and odd circumstances are far common than most people realize, the equivalent of figures that we see when gazing at passing clouds in summer.

[LoneGOPinCT]

I just figured he was a big Queen fan. 8^)

[Stingray51]

Greene was clearly a complicated individual. True, he was a convert to Catholicism but that was early in his life and before decades of dysfunctional behavior.

http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9911/opinion/royal.html

In a 1987 speech Greene gave in Moscow, he claimed to have observed a new thing: "We are fighting—Roman Catholics are fighting—together with Communists, and working together with Communists. We are fighting together against the Death Squads in El Salvador. We are fighting together against the Contras in Nicaragua. We are fighting together against General Pinochet in Chile." Gorbachev, who was present at this speech, was only two years away from pulling the plug on the Latin Communists, their Catholic sympathizers, and his own USSR. Greene concluded: "I even have a dream, Mr. General Secretary, that perhaps one day before I die, I shall know that there is an Ambassador of the Soviet Union giving good advice at the Vatican."