-Caveat Lector- For those who aren't aware - John Kerry, like bush - is also a Skull & Bones member! incidentally, never before have 2 Skull & Bones members ran for Presidency!
- It could be a Belt & Braces approach, or bye..bye Mr Bush - either way it appears the another Manipulated Elite-controlled Glove Puppet has now been chosen!. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ed Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 12:07 PM > Subject: [CTRL] kerry's silver star > > > > -Caveat Lector- > > > > John Kerry: The Chameleon Senator > > By Ted Sampley > > U.S. Veteran Dispatch > > October-December 1996 Issue > > > > > > Despite the prayers and wishful thinking of POW/MIA families and Vietnam > veteran activists, Sen. John Forbes Kerry, the "chameleon" senator from > Massachusetts, was re-elected to the Senate in the 1996 election. Apparently > Kerry's well publicized history as a longtime radical supporter of the > Vietnamese communists and a recent flap about whether or not he is guilty of > a war crime meant very little to the voters in Massachusetts. > > > > Sen. Kerry, the "noble statesman" and "highly decorated Vietnam vet" of > today, is a far cry from Kerry, the radical, hippie-like leader of Vietnam > Veterans Against the War (VVAW) in the early 1970s. After Kerry, as a Navy > Lieutenant (junior grade) commanding a Swift boat in Vietnam, was awarded > the Silver Star, he used a loop hole in Navy regulations to leave Vietnam > (and his crew) before completing his tour of duty. > > After returning home, Kerry quit the Navy early and changed the color of > his politics to become a leader of VVAW. Kerry wasted no time organizing > opposition in the United States against the efforts of his former buddies > still ducking communist bullets back in Vietnam. > > > > Kerry gained national attention in April 1971, when he testified before > the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, then chaired by Sen. J. William > Fulbright (D-AR), who led opposition in the Congress against U.S. > participation in the war. During the course of his testimony, Kerry stated > that the United States had a definite obligation to make extensive economic > reparations to the people of Vietnam. > > > > Kerry's testimony, it should be noted, occurred 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. Kerry was a supporter of > the "People's Peace Treaty," a supposed "people's" declaration to end the > war, reportedly drawn up in communist East Germany. It included nine points, > all of which were taken from Viet Cong peace proposals at the Paris peace > talks as conditions for ending the war. > > > > One of the provisions stated: "The Vietnamese pledge that as soon as the > U.S. government publicly sets a date for total withdrawal [from Vietnam], > they will enter discussion to secure the release of all American prisoners, > including pilots captured while bombing North Vietnam." In other words, > Kerry and his VVAW advocated the communist line to withdraw all U.S. troops > from Vietnam first and then negotiate with Hanoi over the release of > prisoners. Had the nine points of the "People's Peace Treaty" favored by > Kerry been accepted by American negotiators, the United States would have > totally lost all leverage to get the communists to release any POWs captured > during the war years. > > > > Kerry was fundamental in organizing antiwar activists to demonstrate in > Washington, including the splattering of red paint, representing blood, on > the Capitol steps. Several hundred of Kerry's VVAW demonstrators and > supporters were allowed by Fulbright to jam into a Senate Foreign Relations > Committee hearing in 1972 and to chant "Right on, brother!" as Sen. George > McGovern (D-SD), then the only declared Democratic presidential candidate, > accused U.S. troops of committing barbarisms in Vietnam. > > > > Kerry became even more of a press celebrity during a highly publicized > "anti-war" protest when he threw medals the press reported were his over a > barricade and onto the steps of the Capitol. Kerry never mentioned that the > medals he so gloriously tossed were not his own. The 1988 issue of Current > Biography Yearbook explained: " . . . the ones he had discarded were not his > own but had belonged to another veteran who asked him to make the gesture > for him. When a 'Washington Post' reporter asked Kerry about the incident, > he said: 'They're my medals. I'll do what I want with them. And there > shouldn't be any expectations about them.'" Kerry's medals have reappeared, > today hanging in his Senate office, now that it is "politically correct" for > a U.S. Senator to be portrayed as a Vietnam War hero. Alas, so much for > integrity. > > > > Recently, Kerry became extremely defensive when David Warsh, an economics > columnist for The Boston Globe, questioned the circumstances for which Kerry > was awarded the Silver Star. Kerry, who was in a close re-election battle > with Gov. William F. Weld, a Republican, quickly gathered his former crew > from his Swift boat days to rebuff the "assault on his integrity." > > > > According to the official citation accompanying the Silver Star for > Kerry's actions on the waters of the Mekong Delta on February 28, 1969: > "Kerry's craft received a B-40 rocket close aboard. Once again Lieutenant > (j.g.) Kerry ordered his units to charge the enemy positions. . . Patrol > Craft Fast 94 then beached in the center of the enemy positions and an enemy > soldier sprang up from his position not ten feet from Patrol Craft 94 and > fled. Without hesitation Lieutenant (j.g.) Kerry leaped ashore, pursued the > man behind a hootch and killed him, capturing a B-40 rocket launcher with a > round in the chamber." In an article printed in the October 21st and 28th > 1996 edition of The New Yorker, Kerry was asked about the man he had killed. > > > > "It was either going to be him or it was going to be us. It was that > simple. I don't know why it wasn't us--I mean, to this day. He had a rocket > pointed right at our boat. He stood up out of the hole, and none of us saw > him until he was standing in front of us, aiming a rocket right at us, and, > for whatever reason, he didn't pull the trigger--he turned and ran. He was > shocked to see our boat right in front of him. If he'd pulled the trigger, > we'd all be dead . . . I just won't talk about all of it. I don't and I > can't. The things that probably really turn me I've never told anybody. > Nobody would understand," Kerry said. In the column, Warsh quoted the Swift > boat's former gunner, Tom Belodeau, as saying the Viet Cong soldier who > Kerry chased "behind a hootch" and "finished off" actually had already been > wounded by the gunner. > > > > Warsh wrote that such a "coup de grace" would have been considered a war > crime. Belodeau stood beside Kerry and said he'd been misquoted. He conceded > that he had fired at and wounded the Viet Cong, but denied Kerry had simply > executed the wounded Viet Cong. Dan Carr, a former Marine from > Massachusetts, who served 14 months as a rifleman sloshing around in the > humid jungles of I Corps, South Vietnam, questioned whether or not Kerry > deserved a Silver Star for chasing and killing a lone, wounded, retreating > Viet Cong. "Kerry is certainly showing some sensitivity there. Most people I > knew in Vietnam were just trying to pull their time there and get the hell > out. There were some, though, who actually used Vietnam to get their tickets > punched. You know, to build their resumes for future endeavors," Carr said. > > > > In 1991, the United States Senate created the Senate Select Committee on > POW/MIA Affairs to examine the possibility that U.S. POW/MIAs might still be > held by the Vietnamese. As chairman of the Select Committee, Kerry proved > himself to be a masterful chameleon portraying to the public at large what > appeared to be an unbiased approach to resolving the POW/MIA issue. But, in > reality, no 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. (Remember the middle name "Forbes"). > > > > In fact, his first act as chairman was to travel to Southeast Asia, where > during a stopover in Bangkok, Thailand, he lectured the U.S. Chamber of > Commerce there on the importance of lifting the trade embargo and > normalizing relations with Vietnam. During the entire life of the Senate > Select Committee, Kerry never missed a chance to propaganderize and distort > the facts in favor of Hanoi. > > > > Sydney H. Schanberg, associate editor and columnist for New York Newsday > and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist veteran of the Indochina War whose > book, The Death and Life of Dith Pran, became the subject of the Academy > Award-winning film The Killing Fields, chronicled some of Kerry's more > blatant pro-Hanoi biases in several of his columns. > > > > In a Nov. 21, 1993 column, Schanberg wrote, "Highly credible information > has been surfacing in recent days which indicates that the headlines you > have been reading about a 'breakthrough' in Hanoi's cooperation on the > POW/MIA issue are part of a carefully scripted performance. The apparent > purpose is to move toward normalization of relations with Hanoi. > > > > "Sen. John F. Kerry, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA > Affairs, is one of the key figures pushing for normalization. Kerry is > currently on a visit to Vietnam where he has been doing two things: (1) > praising the Vietnamese effusively for granting access to their war archives > and (2) telling the press that there's no believable evidence to back up the > stories of live POWs still being held. "Ironically, that very kind of > live-POW evidence has been brought to Kerry's own committee on a regular > basis over the past year, and he has repeatedly sought to impeach its value. > Moreover, Kerry and his allies on the committee - such as Sens. John McCain, > Nancy Kassebaum and Tom Daschle - have worked to block much of this evidence > from being made public." > > > > In December of 1992, not long after Kerry was quoted in the world press > stating "President Bush should reward Vietnam within a month for its > increased cooperation in accounting for American MIAs," Vietnam announced it > had granted Colliers International, based in Boston, Massachusetts, a > contract worth billions designating Colliers International as the exclusive > real estate agent representing Vietnam. > > > > That deal alone put Colliers in a position to make tens of millions of > dollars on the rush to upgrade Vietnam's ports, railroads, highways, > government buildings, etc. C. Stewart Forbes, Chief Executive Officer of > Colliers International, is Kerry's cousin. Kerry was portrayed in The New > Yorker as a proud Vietnam veteran and "war hero" who, as chairman of the > Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, dared to take on and defeat the > "mendacious POW lobby." > > > > In its 1993 final report, the Select Committee determined that live U.S. > prisoners of war were left behind in the hands of the Vietnamese after the > end of the war. The committee also claimed it found no "compelling" evidence > proving the POWs remain alive today. Kerry's committee stopped there without > answering three of the most profound questions of the entire Senate POW/MIA > investigation: What happened to those U.S. prisoners of war who the Select > Committee said were alive and in the hands of the Vietnamese but not > released at the end of the war? If they are dead, where are their remains? > Who is responsible for their deaths? > > > > No doubt most of the Establishment press will continue to obscure from the > public and themselves the raw truth about Kerry, the communist Vietnamese > and the POW/MIA issue because it is politically convenient. There is also no > doubt the POW/MIA families and Vietnam veteran activists know the truth and > recognize Kerry for what he truly is--a traitor, hypocrite, liar and > chameleon. > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________________________ > > New! Unlimited Netscape Internet Service. > > Only $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register > > Act now to get a personalized email address! > > > > Netscape. Just the Net You Need. > > > > www.ctrl.org > > DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER > > ========== > > CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing > propagandic > > screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceâ?"not soap-boxingâ?"please! 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