soldiers had committed war crimes. He said that certain US soldiers
told him they had done so and were upset about it. I don't have time
for the rest of it. Been in my email way too long already.
Dana
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:38:25 -0700 (PDT), Sam Morris
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Seems to be much more Bush attacks than Kerry on this
> list so I'll try to even it out a bit.
>
> John Kerry: More 'aid and comfort'...
> Mark Alexander
>
> Kerry is, indubitably, the Left's most "useful idiot"
> (as V.I. Lenin famously labeled Western apologists for
> socialist propaganda) in contemporary politics. Ion
> Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking intelligence officer
> ever to defect from the Soviet bloc, said of Kerry's
> anti-American activities during the Vietnam War, "KGB
> priority number one at that time was to damage
> American power, judgment and credibility. ... As a spy
> chief and a general in the former Soviet satellite of
> Romania, I produced the very same vitriol Kerry
> repeated to the U.S. Congress almost word for word and
> planted it in leftist movements."
>
> But Kerry's infamous (and unlawful) coddling of
> Vietnamese Communists some 35 years ago (see "Aid and
> comfort to the enemy: The Kerry Record...") was not
> his last rendezvous with the Reds. After his election
> to the Senate in 1984 (as Ted Kennedy's understudy),
> Kerry spent years dismissing claims by POW family
> groups that some Americans were still being held in
> Vietnam and Cambodia. And he has, since, given aid and
> comfort to plenty of other Red regimes, including some
> in this hemisphere.
>
> For example, in 1985 Kerry courted Daniel Ortega and
> his Communist regime in Nicaragua, even traveling to
> visit his "Dear Comandante" in Managua. Kerry returned
> to the U.S., where he advocated a policy of
> appeasement rather than continued funding of Ortega's
> opponents, the anti-Communist Contras. In 1988 Kerry
> attempted to make political hay of U.S. policy in
> Central America by using his Senate committee as a
> launch-pad to accuse George H.W. Bush of sanctioning a
> Contra drug-smuggling operation that was importing
> cocaine into California. The unfounded charges were,
> not surprisingly, timed to coincide with the elder
> Bush's campaign against Massachusetts Governor Michael
> Dukakis, under whom Kerry had served as lieutenant
> governor.
>
> In 1996, Kerry accepted a $10,000 campaign
> contribution in return for arranging a meeting between
> Honk Kong businesswoman Liu Chaohying and a senior
> Securities and Exchange official in order to get
> Chaohying's company listed on the U.S. Stock Exchange.
> Chaohying was a lieutenant colonel in Red China's
> People's Liberation Army. That same year, Kerry
> traveled to Beijing on a "U.S. trade mission." Here
> it's worth noting that the ChiComs never forget their
> useful idiots; the People's Daily, the official
> newspaper of the Communist Party of China, has
> endorsed Kerry's presidential bid.
>
> But Kerry's fondness for despotic regimes did not
> subside in the '90s. In March of this year, Kerry was
> asked on a campaign stop in Florida about his
> affiliation with Cuba's Fidel Castro and his
> oppressive regime. Given the number of Cuban
> expatriates in Florida who fled Castro's slave island,
> Kerry answered, "I'm pretty tough on Castro. ... I
> voted for the Helms-Burton legislation to be tough on
> companies that deal with him." (Would someone kindly
> cue the laugh track?)
>
> Helms-Burton, you may recall, strengthened the U.S.
> embargo against Cuba after Fidel's fighter jets shot
> down two single-engine civilian aircraft over
> international waters, killing four Cuban ex-pats. The
> small planes belonged to Brothers to the Rescue, an
> organization of small aircraft owners who volunteered
> their time flying over the waters between Cuba and the
> Keys, and alerting the Coast Guard when they came upon
> Cuban refugees on makeshift rafts who needed rescue.
>
> However, Kerry voted against Helms-Burton, and he
> later clarified his support for Castro by arguing that
> the embargo should be lifted. "The only reason [Cuba
> is treated differently from other Communist nations]
> is the politics of Florida," said Kerry. Of course,
> the ever-opportunistic Kerry wasn't campaigning in
> Florida at the time of that "clarification."
>
> Indeed, John Kerry has a well-documented record of
> anti-American activities, especially aiding Communist
> regimes. But the "aid and comfort" he gave to North
> Vietnamese Communists in 1971 (while still a U.S.
> naval officer, and while Americans were still
> fighting, dying, and being held captive by that
> regime) is the most grievous of these transgressions.
>
> His treasonous actions in 1970-1971 are the subject of
> an indictment that will be delivered to Senate
> President Dick Cheney, Senate Majority Leader Bill
> Frist and Attorney General John Ashcroft on 12
> October. The indictment notes both Kerry's UCMJ and
> U.S. Code (18 USC 2381) violations, and it calls for
> his disqualification for public office in accordance
> with the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment, Section
> 3, which states: "No person shall be a Senator or
> Representative in Congress, or elector of President
> and Vice-President...having previously taken an
> oath...to support the Constitution of the United
> States, [who has] engaged in insurrection or rebellion
> against the same, or given aid or comfort to the
> enemies thereof."
>
> http://federalistpatriot.us/alexander/edition.asp?id=277
>
>
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