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<p>A photograph of John Kerry together with Jane Fonda at an anti-Vietnam War rally in 1970 in Pennsylvania has surfaced on the Internet, angering veterans who say his association with her 34 years ago is a slap in the faces of Vietnam War veterans.</p>

If the Republicans formed a group called Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry, it wouldn't hurt for members. Kerry's description of the Vietnam war as a sustained war crime while springboarding to higher office off service in that supposed war crime has grated on many veterans since Kerry entered politics. A group of them made a point of opposing Kerry's first political run. Ho Chi Minh said that he won the Vietnam war not in the jungles of Vietnam but on the streets of America where protesters fought the war for him. Vietnam veterans outraged at Kerry's antiwar hijinks would agree...

RADICAL KERRY REVEALED: AMERICAN TROOPS UNDER U.N. CONTROL, ELIMINATION OF CIA; OLD HARVARD INTERVIEW UNEARTHED

Ten months after returning home from Vietnam, a young John Kerry strolled into the offices of The Harvard Crimson on Feb. 13, 1970 as an obscure underdog in the Democratic Congressional primary. The decorated veteran, honorably discharged after a tour of duty in the Mekong Delta, spoke in fierce terms during his daylong interview with The Crimson’s Samuel Z. Goldhaber ’72. But almost 34 years later, Kerry’s remarks on American military and intelligence operations vastly diverge from opinions expressed by the present-day Sen. John F. Kerry, D.-Mass., the leading candidate in the Democratic primary for president. “I’m an internationalist,” Kerry...

The Liberals still have a few weeks of back stabbing each other before everything is official, but we should not waste our time being amused by their antics. John Kerry is coming, and his campaign is going to be one of the most negative in recent memory. Hey! Wait a minute. John Kerry has been stumping about how he wants to avoid the “politics of hate”. Are you insinuating that Kerry will flip flop on this issue, assassinate the character of President Bush on baseless innuendo, and mobilize his core supporters with fear mongering? Yes I am. How else do...

Only 14 senators voted against Bill Clinton's Defense of Marriage Act. John Kerry was one of them. Kerry, once proud of that vote, now says, "I'm against gay marriage. Everybody knows that." As Kerry beats a hasty retreat from his home state's homosexual radicalism, it is worth remembering that homosexual activists in Massachusetts supported Kerry in his 1996 senate race with William Weld even though Weld was a very loud supporter of homosexual causes. Homosexual activists sided with Kerry because they knew that Kerry was even more in the tank for them than Weld. They knew that Kerry would accelerate...

Title: "US Firms That Outsource are Traitors: Kerry" Outsourcing of hi-tech jobs to India, China, Russia, the Philippines, and elsewhere has become an issue which is being debated in the Democratic primaries and in the US Congress, with current Democratic frontrunner in the presidential race, Senator John Kerry, calling companies which outsource 'Benedict Arnolds.' The name refers to an American 'traitor' who defected from the ranks of American revolutionaires to join the British colonists. Kerry was quoted by Contra Costa Times on the West Coast as denouncing the Bush Administration for 'rewarding Benedict Arnold CEOs who move profits and...

John Kerry has been railing against the special interests, and I don't think that's very nice because it implies that some people's interests are not so special. I like to think that everybody's interests are special in their own way. What's more, I think Kerry knows this, because if you look over his long career, you see that he loves all our interests, big and small, near or far. For example, a Chinese businesswoman named Liu Chaoying dreamed of having her company listed on a U.S. stock exchange. That's certainly a special dream. Maybe as a little girl she would...

A look at the senator's 1971 antiwar opus, "The New Soldier." HOW CONVENIENT that Douglas Brinkley's hagiographic "Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War" should be hitting bookstores just as Kerry's star ascends in the Democratic primaries. Less convenient, perhaps, is the fact that another Kerry book is getting hot right now: "The New Soldier," published in 1971, for which Kerry shares authorial credit with the organization Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Hot not in sales--only a tiny number of copies seem to be around--but in price. A signed first edition in mint condition is being offered on...

Friday, February 06, 2004 JOHN FORBES KERRY THE HYPOCRITE, VOL. I, ISSUE 3   Special Interests’ Best Friend_____________________________________________Charles Lewis, Head Of The Center For Public Integrity: “The Idea That [Sen. John] Kerry [D-MA] Has Not Helped Or Benefited From A Specific Special Interest, Which He Has Said, Is Utterly Absurd.”  (John Solomon, “Kerry Blocked Law, Drew Cash,” The Associated Press, 2/4/04)QUESTIONS RAISED OVER CASH AND KERRY NOMINATIONS! In 1984, When Kerry First Ran For U.S. Senate He Promised To Be “Persistent Watchdog Over Presidential Appointments.”  “When he first ran for the Senate, Kerry promised voters he would carefully choose...

Sneak Preview By John Pike The Many Faces of John Kerry This is the first of a two-part, in-depth report on Sen. John Kerry and the 2004 presidential race. To read the second part, come back to Insight Online on Tuesday, Sept. 2. Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, 60, was scheduled formally to announce his bid for the Democratic nomination for president in front of an aircraft carrier in South Carolina as this issue of Insight went to press. This is the same John Kerry who only a few months ago complained when President George W. Bush landed on the...

REMARKS BY SENATOR JOHN KERRY (D-MA) TOPIC: IRAQ THE CAPITOL, SENATE RADIO/TV GALLERY WASHINGTON, D.C. SEN. KERRY: I believe that everybody who has been involved with the issue of Iraq understands that a day of reckoning has been a long time coming for Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein's objective is to maintain his weapons program, the program for building weapons of mass destruction. He has never been willing to open fully for inspection. For eight years he has avoided his responsibilities to the international community. He has toyed with the United Nations, with the United States, with UNSCOM, and with our...

COKIE ROBERTS: Senator John Kerry, Democrat from Massachusetts, joining us today from Idaho. Senator John McCain, Republican from Arizona, and he's in Arizona.   Welcome, gentlemen. Thank you for being with us this morning.   Sen. JOHN MCCAIN, (R-AZ)Armed Services Cmte.: Thank you.   COKIE ROBERTS: Now, what -- we've got this report that Kofi Annan is close to an agreement.   Senator McCain, is that something you welcome?   Sen. JOHN MCCAIN: Well, I would welcome if it means full compliance, but very frankly, I'm very nervous, and I'm a little more nervous after listening to the secretary of...

Is Kerry a proud war hero or angry antiwar protester? John Kerry, we know, is running against John Kerry: his own voting record. But there is another record that John Kerry is running against, and this has to do with his very emergence as a Democratic politician: Kerry, the proud Vietnam veteran vs. Kerry, the antiwar activist who accused his fellow Vietnam veterans of the most heinous atrocities imaginable. John Kerry not only served honorably in Vietnam, but also with distinction, earning a Silver Star (America's third-highest award for valor), a Bronze Star, and three awards of the Purple Heart...

John Kerry, we know, is running against John Kerry: his own voting record. But there is another record that John Kerry is running against, and this has to do with his very emergence as a Democratic politician: Kerry, the proud Vietnam veteran vs. Kerry, the antiwar activist who accused his fellow Vietnam veterans of the most heinous atrocities imaginable. John Kerry not only served honorably in Vietnam, but also with distinction, earning a Silver Star (America's third-highest award for valor), a Bronze Star, and three awards of the Purple Heart for wounds received in combat as a swift-boat commander. Kerry...

<p>"I am saddened that Vietnam has yet again been inserted into the campaign."</p> <p>Mr. President, I also rise today--and I want to say that I rise reluctantly, but I rise feeling driven by personal reasons of necessity--to express my very deep disappointment over yesterday's turn of events in the Democratic primary in Georgia.</p>

VIETNAM INSERTED INTO CAMPAIGN (Senate - February 27, 1992) [Page: S2479] Mr. KERRY. Mr. President, I also rise today--and I want to say that I rise reluctantly, but I rise feeling driven by personal reasons of necessity--to express my very deep disappointment over yesterday's turn of events in the Democratic primary in Georgia. I am saddened by the fact that Vietnam has yet again been inserted into the campaign, and that it has been inserted in what I feel to be the worst possible way. By that I mean that yesterday, during this Presidential campaign, and even throughout recent times,...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the text of William F. Buckley Jr.'s June 8, 1971, commencement address to the United States Military Academy at West Point. The speech appears here as it is in Let Us Talk of Many Things : The Collected Speeches. The morale in the armed services was low, reflecting the impasse and progressive demoralization in Vietnam, and especially the trial of Lieutenant William Calley for the massacre at Mylai. A drastic charge, flamboyantly made by decorated veteran John Kerry (now a United States senator from Massachusetts), had been rapturously received. Kerry ascribed to our soldiers in Vietnam...