Posted on 07/03/2014 8:19:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ive never had many charitable things to say about John Kerry, but now its worse; I feel sorry for him.
Kerry certainly isnt an evil fellow, merely a run-of-the-mill narcissistic opportunist who has risen to the top of the political heap. I admire his service in Vietnam; many children of privilege did someone mention George W. Bush? found ways to avoid the war. If he had any stellar accomplishments during his 28 years in the Senate, they are not etched in my memory. He proved to be an inept presidential candidate in 2004.
But now, the spin goes, he is serving in his dream job, secretary of state. Kerrys father was a Foreign Service officer, and one of his sons first trips as secretary included a sentimental journey to Berlin, where his father worked in the US Embassy.
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Shortly thereafter, Kerry uncorked perhaps the boldest diplomatic initiative of the Obama administration: a full-on restart of the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. (One thinks of his predecessors ill-fated re-set of US-Russian relations.) In July 2013, Kerry announced his ambitious objective to achieve a final status agreement over the course of the next nine months.
His praiseworthy goal was to see two states living side by side in peace and security. That didnt work out. In the wake of this weeks discovery of the bodies of three slain Israeli teenagers, peace negotiations seem like a distant memory.
In September of 2013, Kerry offhandedly suggested that Syrian president BasharAssad could avoid military intervention in his countrys civil war if he would turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community. Kerry added: It cant be done, obviously.(continued)
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I remember he was all about fully supporting the Vietnamese communists after he managed to pull strings in the Navy to get assigned out of the war zone before his tour was over. The validity of his three Purple Hearts are doubtful. He still refuses to sign a SF180 form that would allow public scrutiny of his military records. He and “Hanoi” Jane Fonda remain icons of the Viet Nam War as heroes of the American Left. For American who fought against the communist butchers of that war, John and Jane are first class traitors. Kerry should have been hauled before a court martial, tried, convicted, and executed.
Anybody that admires kerrys' service knows nothing about his so called service.
Then the low life went before congress with lies about war crimes.
PPPPPPPLEASE
As Paula Dean would say: “That’s good Chicken Yall”
I recall then Senator Kerry saying, “Nothing bad happened in Viet Nam after we left.”
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