Saturday, May 08, 2004

Presidential Auction 2004


Tom Toles

There are plenty of examples of Kerry's "flip-flops". Eg:

In 1997, Kerry felt there that were no threats to the United States. This prompted him to place this statement in the Congressional Record: ''Now that the [Cold War] struggle is over, why is it that our vast intelligence apparatus continues to grow even as Government resources for new and essential priorities fall far short of what is necessary?'' (Congressional Record, 5/1/97, p. S3891)

Twelve days after 9/11, Senator Kerry had the nerve to make this statement: ''And the tragedy is, at the moment, that the single most important weapon for the United States of America is intelligence. ...we are weakest, frankly, in that particular area. So it's going to take us time to be able to build up here to do this properly.'' (CBS's ''Face the Nation,'' 9/23/01)
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Any responsible and reasonable person would change his mind when new information warrants it. (That's not the same as Bush's Israeli plan shennanigans mentioned in the previous post. He's sending two different messages about the same thing - and don't even get me started on all of his outright lies.) Only an unreasonable stubborn idiot would stick to a position that becomes untenable. "Resolved."

But this is the kind of Kerry activity that gets me....

The senator was the head of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs in 1992. He pushed vigorously to normalize relations with Vietnam. He visited Vietnam and praised them for being open and reported he was convinced they were not holding American POWs. Many families didn't believe him then and don't believe him now. But why would he be so anxious to normalize relations with the former enemy?

The answer is special interests and money. Collier's International, based in Boston, was immediately awarded the exclusive contract to rebuild Vietnam's infrastructure by the Vietnamese government. They made tens of millions of dollars from the contract. The chief executive officer of Collier's International was a man named C. Stewart Forbes. Interestingly, Senator Kerry's middle name is Forbes. There is a reason for that. C. Stewart Forbes is John Kerry's cousin.

The New Yorker Magazine touted Kerry as the senator who defeated the ''mendacious POW lobby.'' Yes, Kerry helped defeat those tenacious family members who wanted to know what happened to their missing loved ones. His strange bedfellow in this battle against POW families was none other than fellow Senator and former POW John McCain.

This committee's final report in 1993 was chilling. It determined that American POWs were left alive in Viet Nam after the war but felt none were still alive. It makes no attempt to identify those left behind, how they died, who killed them, and where their remains are located. They were abandoned in life and death.
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THE VILLAGE VOICE
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0408/schanberg.php

Senator Covered Up Evidence of P.O.W.'s Left Behind
When John Kerry's Courage Went M.I.A.

...The resignation of Colonel Millard Peck in 1991, the first year of the Kerry
committee's tenure, was one of many vivid landmarks in this saga's history. Peck
had been the head of the Pentagon's P.O.W./M.I.A. office for only eight months
when he resigned in disgust. In his damning departure statement, he wrote: "The
mind-set to 'debunk' is alive and well. It is held at all levels . . .
Practically all analysis is directed to finding fault with the source. Rarely
has there been any effective, active follow-through on any of the sightings . .
. The sad fact is that . . . a cover-up may be in progress. The entire charade
does not appear to be an honest effort and may never have been."

Finally, Peck said: "From what I have witnessed, it appears that any soldier
left in Vietnam, even inadvertently, was in fact abandoned years ago, and that
the farce that is being played is no more than political legerdemain done with
'smoke and mirrors' to stall the issue until it dies a natural death."


Senator Kerry is not the man we should be looking to for leadership of this country.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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