Posted on 03/12/2015 9:42:14 AM PDT by Nachum
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger hammered John Kerry in 1985 for interfering in diplomatic negotiations with Nicaragua’s Marxist government as a Massachusetts senator.
Thirty years later, Kerry is skewering Senate Republicans for their open letter to the Iranian leadership warning that any nuclear deal with the United States without the advice and consent of the U.S. Congress would not last beyond President Obama’s term.
Kerry and then-Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin visited Nicaragua in 1985 to cut a deal with the Sandinista government, which was close to the former Soviet Union. President Ronald Reagan, however, was already set on overthrowing the Marxist government in Nicaragua by sending aid to a group of Nicaraguan rebels — the contras.
“The Sandinista government would agree to a cease-fire and restore civil liberties if the US government ceased its support of the contras,” the Boston Globe reported.
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not to mention Ted Kennedy working with the Soviets to undermine Reagan...
The right needs to realise that hypocrisy fazes the left not one whit. No matter how many times they get called out for their hypocrisy, they just don’t care. The only thing that matters is, did they gain their goal? And they know that they can get away with the most blatant hypocrisy because the media carries their water, and because people like Hillary Clinton can say things like “What difference does it make”, which would have someone from the right hounded out of public life as a cold-hearted bastard. When will the right learn that the left plays by no rules other than, whatever it takes to win?
Kerry needs to look up exactly what constitutes a treaty under our constitution...
Wish they would have slapped self sanctimonious Ketchup boy with that, but noooooo....
And for all these “free-lance” foreign negotiations, there were no consequences.
Still, the optics are pretty distorted.
Kerry has always been seditious and/or treasonous. His holding office demonstrates the nature of the people forming the present administration.
Oh come on Henry that was years ago , Dude ,LOL
Not just Kerry. Almost every Democrat in congress made repeated trips to Managua to get their pictures taken with Ortega. During the war they first voted to fund and then, once the guys were in the hills fighting, voted to un-fund.
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