Sen. Harkin is one of the most liberal senators in American history. Harkin has never seen an enemy of America that he didn’t like. This is especially true of Communist leaders and countries during the Cold War.
One example is back in 1984 when Harkin, along with Sen. John Kerry, flew down to Nicaragua to meet with the Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega — a fanatical Marxist-Leninist. The visit was arranged by the Washington-based, pro-Soviet organization The Institute of Policy Studies — an organization that actively cooperated with the KGB. Despite these facts Harkin enthusiastically supported, as he still does, the Institute of Policy Studies.
What angered many leading Democrat senators on the Armed Services Committee in 1984 was that Harkin and Kerry negotiated a peace treaty with our enemy Ortega. This was by definition a treasonous act.
Harkin has defamed President Bush and called the Vice President a coward. Harkin has continually sought to weaken America’s armed forces. He has consistently voted to give aide to America’s enemies: Communist Vietnam, Cambodia, Fidel Castro’s Cuba, and Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua to name a few. In short, Harkin believes in a socialist America and hates the very source of America’s wealth — the Free Enterprise System.
http://www.iowapresidentialwatch.com/HarkinMustGo/HarkinMustGo.htm
Harkin is NOT a liberal. He is a hardcore, lying marxist and his actions in Vietnam, Nicaragua etc. prove it beyond any doubt.
his goal in Nicaragua in 1984 to to save and protect the Sandinista Marxist dictatorship, and almost did, with John Kerry’s help, but Ortega buddyf*cked them by going to Moscow to get several hundred million dollars of Soviet arms.
Then the Senate reversed it vote on not giving aid to the “contra freedom fighters”, a direct slap in the face of both Harkin and Kerry.
Harkin started his pro-VC/Hanoi act with Don Luce, an avowed VC supporter, re the Con Son Island prison “tiger cages” hoax, and he never stopped lying.
His treason was rewarded by the people of Iowa with a lifetime political career of undermining the U.S. Boy they have some really stupid people out there.