John Kerry’s Bright Shining Lie

The American Spectator ^ | 9.5.13 | Jeffrey Lord

[Hotlanta Mike]

There is a God.

Or, put another way, what goes round…comes round.

The suddenly furious debate over Syria has two very blunt problems.

Lying.

And telling the hard truth. The latter also known as Iran.

Let’s deal first with what can only be called John Kerry’s problems with what might be called a “Bright Shining Lie.”

“Bush Lied” was a lie.

No matter.

The anti-war left sold this leftist lie like corn flakes…and they had lots of help. And one of the people who recklessly helped sell the notion that “Bush Lied” was his 2004 Democratic opponent — John Kerry. And another? Barack Obama.

“We were misled. We were given evidence that was not true.” So said Kerry in one of his milder moments, giving no credence to the idea that the intelligence provided Bush — and Kerry himself as a Senator from Massachusetts — was simply wrong. Bush, said Obama in his campaign book The Audacity of Hope, had deliberately been “shading intelligence reports” and “grossly misstating” the facts of Iraq, refusing, again deliberately, to give “an honest accounting.”

The truth?

There was, in fact, no evidence that George W. Bush had lied to take the nation into the war in Iraq, as reported afterwards in any number of places, this story written by an editor of the anti-Bush New Republic being but one.

[Hotlanta Mike]

Lying and hard truth: from Vietnam to Syria and Iran.

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John Kerry drinks out of the toilet.

[yldstrk]

John Kerry is a despicable wine swisher

[Travis McGee]

[liberalh8ter]

A despicable wine swisher who answers only to his disgustingly, light-in-the-loafers master.

[Starboard]

It’s like...uh....you know...uh...real cool...and like...uh...such a positive thing...and like...uh...war can be such a...uh...you know...cool thing. Obama’s wars are...uh...better than...like, you know...those evil conservatives. Uh...uh...like where is this war now dude?

[PLD]

Now, a third document [pdf file] provides more context, showing that Kerry’s July 22, 1971, press conference calling on President Nixon to accept the seven-point plan presented by Viet Cong leader Madame Nguyen Thi Binh was perfectly aligned with Hanoi’s step-by-step agenda.

“If you look at the sequence of events, it would certainly seem Kerry was following a plan and was not just simply acting spontaneously,” said Jerome Corsi, a specialist on the Vietnam-era antiwar movement and co-author of “Unfit for Command,” the best-seller challenging Kerry’s qualification to lead the nation.

Kerry insists he attended the talks only because he happened to be in France on his honeymoon and maintains he met with both sides. But previously revealed records indicate the future senator made two, and possibly three, trips to Paris.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2004/10/27242/#5D5WiAXOewMERCQC.99

[paterfamilias]

Thanks again to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth

[neverdem]

In fact, never mentioned by LBJ was that the attack on the Maddox was not unprovoked, as he presented. It was in fact, as documented by author Sheehan and others years later, the North Vietnamese response to what was known in the shadows of the Johnson administration as Operation Plan 34A. Described in government memos of the day, 34A was a series of raids that were “destructive undertakings” designed “to result in substantial destruction, economic loss and harassment” to North Vietnam. Combined, all of this was more than enough to ignite the Vietnam tinderbox. The attack on the Maddox was decidedly provoked — and the entire ensuing Vietnam War, which claimed over 50,000 American lives, was built on that lie.

Operation Plan 34A commences

Obama could be worse than LBJ. May God help the US.

[Carry_Okie]

The attack on the Maddox was decidedly provoked — and the entire ensuing Vietnam War, which claimed over 50,000 American lives, was built on that lie.

The Racak Massacre, which was used to propitiate the war in Kosovo, was a deliberate fraud on the part of Clinton Administration CIA agent (and Bush family relative) William Walker.

[liberty or death]

1000 times so. He is close to getting us into war with Russia, Iran & China. All to save his inflated ego which is frightening beyond words. He is a spoiled brat. The presidency was handed to him by a corrupt media and a republican party that is filled with fellow travelers and cowards.

[FreedomPoster]

I contributed $100 to those guys in that cycle. Money well spent.