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| Kerry’s statements making Peace activist uncomfortable |
| 2004-06-06 |
| EFL from CNSNews.com via WND Researcher and author Jerry Corsi, who began studying the anti-war movement in the early 1970s, believes Kerry is hiding key aspects about his anti-war past from the public as he seeks the presidency."Kerry has admitted to one meeting with Madam Binh. Now we have reason to believe there was a second [meeting], so let’s press them to admit the second [meeting]," Corsi told CNSNews.com. According to Gerald Nicosia, a Kerry supporter and the author of the book Home to War: A History of the Vietnam Veterans’ Movement, Kerry’s second visit to Paris to meet with emissaries of the North Vietnamese communist government is documented in redacted FBI files from the era. "The [FBI] files record that Kerry made a second trip to Paris that summer (1971) to learn how the North Vietnamese might release prisoners," Nicosia wrote in an essay in the Los Angeles Times on May 23... Kerry told the New York Times on April 24 that his first meeting with the Vietnamese communists in 1970 was "not a big deal." ’’People were dropping in (at the Paris Peace Talks). It was a regular sort of deal," Kerry explained to the New York Times. But Corsi believes it was a very big deal. "You had (Former Nixon aide) Henry Kissinger there (in Paris) trying to negotiate formally with the Paris peace delegation and then these guys (from Vietnam Veterans Against the War) are off on their own side show, establishing back channels to the Vietnamese communists; all of this is against the law," Corsi said, referring to U.S. code 18 U.S.C. 953, which declares it illegal for a U.S. citizen to go abroad and negotiate with a foreign power. ... Nicosia has criticized Kerry in the past for not being more open about his anti-war past. "I am in kind of an awkward position here. I am a Kerry supporter and I certainly don’t want to do anything that hurts him. On the other hand, my number one allegiance is to truth. So I am going to go with where the facts are, and John is going to have to deal with that," Nicosia told CNSNews.com back in March when the contents of the FBI files became public and caused Kerry to revise his past statements on a series of issues dealing with his past. "I am having some problems with the things he is saying right now, which are not matching up with accuracy. I think [Kerry] may be worried or the people around him may be worried that his association with VVAW (Vietnam Veterans Against the War) is a very negative thing and they want John to back away from it," Nicosia said. |
| Posted by:Super Hose |
| #5 It is no wonder that Kerry is going to lay low for a few days -- he suffers in comparison to Ronald Reagan. I will hate to even see him at Reagan's state funeral. His attendance even seems disrespectful. |
| Posted by: Tom 2004-06-06 9:26:31 PM |
| #4 "I am having some problems with the things he is saying right now, which are not matching up with accuracy. I think [Kerry] may be worried or the people around him may be worried that his association with VVAW (Vietnam Veterans Against the War) is a very negative thing and they want John to back away from it," Nicosia said. It's a little late, dearie. Kerry ran and slept with some masty amoral dogs, and then made a concious decision to let them define his politics. It really isn't going to matter, not at this time nor in November, what he backs away from. Kerry has been painted a leftist by his own politics and the democrat party has demonstrated that its base, inspite of several thousands of troops in combat and 30 months after a sneak attack on our soil, they still don't believe we are at war and that we need unity; but instead they gave us an antiwar candidate for president who, I guess, is thinking of trying to hide his decades of leftist politics. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-06-06 10:47:10 AM |
| #3 possible follow up to possible response: "I met with the North vietnamese to hopefully ease the way to the release of american prisoners, but it was not a big deal. So I went back a second time." When this man tries to explain a position he has on anything, I fear that I may blow a synapse trying to process the contradictions. |
| Posted by: Dripping Sarcasm 2004-06-06 1:54:31 AM |
| #2 possible response: " I met with the north Vietnamese only once, but only before I met with them twice." |
| Posted by: Dripping Sarcasm 2004-06-06 1:34:38 AM |
#1 I am having some problems with the things he is saying right now, which are not matching up with accuracy.That pretty much sums up Kerry on any subject, doesn't it? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-06-06 1:12:52 AM |