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John Kerry: Hero of Iran-Contra Investigation
| John Kerry investigates Reagan's genocidal policies in Central America and nails Oliver North. |
 John Kerry meets with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega in midst of Reagan War |
| Excerpts of Boston Globe profile on Mass. Senator John Kerry as featured on Democracy Now: Kerry's audacity cost him. Within weeks of taking office in 1985, he was off to Nicaragua, accompanied by reporters on a 36-hour, self-appointed fact-finding mission with another freshman, Democratic Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa. Congressional Democrats had accused the White House of exaggerating the communist threat posed by the Sandinista regime. So the two senators were publicly castigated when -- just days after meeting with Daniel Ortega and other leaders of the regime -- the Sandinistas climbed aboard a plane to Moscow to cement their Soviet ties. Secretary of State George Shultz declared that Kerry and Harkin had been "used" by the Nicaraguans, and he ridiculed them for their naivete in "dealing with the communists." Kerry was called "silly" in the Boston press. ...`In early 1986, people like North were deathly afraid of what Kerry was after," says Tom Blanton, the executive director of the National Security Archive, a research organization in Washington. "There was this pervasive sense of the potential of turning over too many rocks. Worms and insects kept crawling out." You can read the full story from the link below. Also you can go to: http://www.democracynow.org for a full profile of hopefully our next President. |