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Kerry the gymnastic chameleon
Heavily Edited - but good read just some new stuff I hadnât heard before As a result, veterans have formed several groups opposing John Kerryâs presidential ambitions. The root cause of their anti-Kerry sentiment is summarized by the publication U.S. Veteran Dispatch, which notes that Kerryâs aforementioned testimony âoccurred while some of his fellow Vietnam veterans were known by the world to be enduring terrible suffering as prisoners of war in North Vietnamese prisons.â Indeed, Senator John McCain has stated that his North Vietnamese captors had used reports of Kerry-led protests to taunt him and his fellow prisoners. I guess we can stop wondering about a Kerry/McCain ticket. Be interesting to see how McCain handles this. One anti-Kerry group, Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry (VVAJK), recently formed a national coalition with two other groups: Vietnamese-Americans for Human Rights in Vietnam (VAHRV), and Vietnamese-Americans Against John Kerry (VAAJK). âWe represent hundreds of thousand of American veterans,â says VVAJK founder said Ted Sampley. Seems the Vietnamese didnât appreciate his efforts to allow them to be slaughtered in the killing fields. A formal VVAJK statement reads, âAs a national leader of VVAW, Kerry campaigned against the effort of the United States to contain the spread of Communism. He used the blood of servicemen still in the field for his own political advancement by claiming that their blood was being shed unnecessarily or in vain . . . Under Kerryâs leadership, VVAW members mocked the uniform of United States soldiers by wearing tattered fatigues marked with pro-communist graffiti. They dishonored America by marching in demonstrations under the flag of the Viet Cong enemy.â In a similar spirit, VAAJK member Dan Tran says, âOn behalf of tens of thousands of Vietnamese-Americans, we are determined to demonstrate against Senator Kerry all across this nation . . . John Kerry aided and abetted the Communist government in Hanoi and has hindered any human rights progress in Vietnam.â Tens of thousands? Gosh..Kerry must be relieved that so many were murdered before they got here - or those numbers would be even higher. As chairman of the Select Senate Committee on POW/MIA (Prisoners Of War/Missing In Action) Affairs, which was created in 1991 to determine whether any American POWs or MIAs were still alive in Vietnam, Kerry doggedly pushed the panel to conclude all Americans were dead. According to U.S. Veteran Dispatch, â[N]o one in the United States Senate pushed harder to bury the POW/MIA issue, the last obstacle preventing normalization of relations with Hanoi, than John Forbes Kerry.â Controversy erupted in December 1992, however, when, according to the nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity, âHanoi announced that it had awarded Colliers International, a Boston-based real estate company, an exclusive deal to develop its commercial real estate potentially worth billions. Stuart Forbes, the CEO of Colliers, is [John] Kerryâs cousin.â Killer deal on killing fields. Despite his consistently leftist stance on the issues, John Kerry has staked out public positions all over the political map since the early 1970s. But one thing has remained troublingly consistent: He prefers to hide his three decades of left-wing activism from the American public. We hope the American people will not be so easily fooled. sigh...donât count on it. Posted by: B 2004-02-17 |
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