in 1971.
"We rationalized destroying villages in order to save
them. We saw America lose her sense of morality as she
accepted very coolly at My Lai and refused to give up
the image of American soldiers who hand out chocolate
bars and chewing gum."
"We learned the meaning of free-fire zones, shooting
anything that moves, and we watched while America
placed a cheapness on the lives of Orientals."
--- dana tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sam, this just makes me tired. For a start, he did
> not say that US
> 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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