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Kerry returns to Vietnam, now as top US diplomat
Associated Press ^ | Dec 14, 2013 9:05 AM EST | Matthew Lee

Posted on 12/14/2013 9:09:45 AM PST by Olog-hai

John Kerry first set foot in Vietnam 44 years ago, a young U.S. Navy officer fighting in a war that would come to profoundly influence his political career and foreign policy thinking.

He returned again Saturday, this time as America’s top diplomat, offering security assurances and working to promote democratic and economic reforms in the communist country.

In his 14th trip to the Southeast Asian nation since the war’s end, the U.S. secretary of state was trying to bolster the remarkable rapprochement that he had encouraged and helped to engineer as a senator in the 1990s. …

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: johnfnkerry; johnkerry; liberalagenda; vietnam
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1 posted on 12/14/2013 9:09:45 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Show them your medals John....And then remind them they are still a communist country and there is no real hope.


2 posted on 12/14/2013 9:12:03 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Olog-hai

“Over here is when I had muh first kill....I remember the day just like it was yesterday. Pouring rain, Vietcong firing on us from all sides, but I hung in there...”


3 posted on 12/14/2013 9:12:07 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Governor Sarah Heath Palin for President of the United States in 2016)
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To: Olog-hai
Sign your SF 180, John.

5.56mm

4 posted on 12/14/2013 9:12:29 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Olog-hai

Once a traitor, always a traitor.


5 posted on 12/14/2013 9:14:22 AM PST by twister881
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To: Olog-hai

Did Kerry take Hanoi Jane with him?


6 posted on 12/14/2013 9:14:49 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Did the ancients know they were ancients? Or did they see themselves as presents?)
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To: Olog-hai

Back in da hood with his home boyz.


7 posted on 12/14/2013 9:14:51 AM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: Olog-hai

They can keep his soory back end!


8 posted on 12/14/2013 9:15:07 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Olog-hai

I wonder how much this “deal” is going to cost the taxpayers.


9 posted on 12/14/2013 9:15:24 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Trust No One.)
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To: Olog-hai
John Kerry lied to Congress about War Crimes.

Now he sits in the chair of a war criminal. "WE came, WE saw, HE DIED!" - Sec. of State Hillary Clinton on the torture, abuse, and murder of a POW named Momar Gaddafi.

FUJK

10 posted on 12/14/2013 9:15:52 AM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

No no no ... they were singing Christmas carols .. remember ?


11 posted on 12/14/2013 9:16:07 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

This is the stretch of river where I tossed a grenade into a rice carrying sampan & blew kernels up my arse. Got my 2nd Purple Heart that day.


12 posted on 12/14/2013 9:16:17 AM PST by skeeter
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To: Olog-hai

I wonder if he’ll recreate that Christmas trip he took to Cambodia those many years ago...no, wait...never mind.


13 posted on 12/14/2013 9:16:32 AM PST by mkmensinger
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To: Olog-hai

I hope that he spends more time now than he did the first time. I and most of my friends spent a year there. JFK did not.


14 posted on 12/14/2013 9:16:48 AM PST by OldEagle
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I hope he stay away from the rice there.

Last time he got shot with a piece of rice and got a purple heart.


15 posted on 12/14/2013 9:18:27 AM PST by Venturer (Half Staff the Flag of the US for Terrorists.)
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To: Olog-hai

Jingus Con


16 posted on 12/14/2013 9:20:03 AM PST by Spruce
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To: Venturer

Remember then Senator Kerry saying, “Nothing bad happened in VN after we left.”


17 posted on 12/14/2013 9:21:08 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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18 posted on 12/14/2013 9:21:45 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Olog-hai

Maybe he’ll get a hangnail and another purple heart.


19 posted on 12/14/2013 9:22:39 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Olog-hai

Still a traitor.


20 posted on 12/14/2013 9:23:43 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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