From: REALITY05@webtv.net   
      
   you trying to ruin my "reputation"?   
      
   War Zero   
   By: JOHN "shoot em in the back" KERRY   
      
   I'm a citizen of Massachusetts. (God help me.) For going on 30 years   
   now, I've watched John Kerry's career with a mixture of fascination,   
   revulsion and amusement.   
      
   John F. Kerry. The "F" stands not for fraud or fabulously coiffed - as   
   one would suspect -- but for the Forbes family of Boston-Brahmin fame.   
   His mama was one of the Back Bay elite, don't you know.   
   However - a la the chameleon-like Zelig of the Woody Allen movie -   
   nothing about Kerry is what it seems. He's Irish, right? Well, actually,   
   he's part Jewish. (His paternal grandparents were Kohn, before they   
   goy-icized their name.)   
   He's a war hero who became an anti-war activist, when it looked   
   politically advantageous. He's a man with a common touch -- who married   
   two rich women. One he dumped, when she was suffering from depression,   
   after she bore him two kids.   
   A graduate of the snooty St. Paul's and Yale - member of Skull and   
   Bones, currently married to a lady worth over half-a-billion dollars --   
   nevertheless, he can prattle about this nation belonging "not to the   
   privileged few, but to all Americans."   
   He's a moderate with a voting record more liberal than either Ted   
   Kennedy or Dennis The Red Kucinich. Kennedy's lifetime congressional   
   rating from the if-it-moves-tax-it Americans for Democratic Action is 88   
   percent - compared to 93 percent for Mr. Middle of the Road. Kucinich's   
   lifetime score from the American Conservative Union is 15 percent.   
   Kerry's is 6 percent.   
   Is there anything about the war-hero/VC symp, "Irish"-Jewish-Brahmin,   
   left-wing moderate, pro-abortion Catholic,   
   patrician-tribune-of-the-people that's real?   
   Actually, there is a stark consistency that runs through Kerry's career   
   - He's an opportunistic, back-stabber who never met a commie he didn't   
   like. He also has chutzpah to spare.   
   In the late Sixties, Naval Lt. JG Kerry went to Vietnam, probably to   
   round out a resume for the political future he was planning even then.   
   He picked up some tin, which he later tossed over the White House fence   
   as part of an anti-war demonstration. But, wait, they weren't his   
   medals, he latter revealed, but someone else's who couldn't make it to   
   the protest. (This caused a Boston politician to quip: "Just like a   
   Yankee. Throws away things that aren't his.")   
   One of Kerry's medals was for killing an enemy soldier who supposedly   
   was armed with a rocket launcher. Except, evidence suggests the fearsome   
   foe was wounded at the time and may have been shot in the back. Perhaps   
   this was a dress rehearsal for young Benedict's eventual betrayal of the   
   guys he fought with.   
   Anyway, upon arriving home, Kerry sniffed the political wind in   
   Massachusetts - the only state McGovern carried -- and decided there was   
   hay to be made opposing the war. Without missing a beat, the hero   
   enlisted in Vietnam Veterans Against the War, nobly serving with such   
   VC-lovers as Jane Fonda and Ramsey Clark in the so-called Winter Soldier   
   Investigation. Wonder if they'll campaign for Johnny this year? The   
   nascent New Leftist had no qualms about marching with scruffy Marxists   
   carrying Viet Cong flags and signs with slogans praising Ho Chi Minh,   
   Kim Il Sung and Fidel.   
   But it wasn't enough to merely oppose the war. Kerry had to smear his   
   former comrades-in-arms as a bunch of degenerate, mutilating   
   baby-killers.   
   The man who's now running on his war record - and mentions his medals in   
   every other breath - told a Senate hearing that Americans then bleeding   
   and dying in the rice paddies were the moral equivalent of the   
   Waffen-S.S.   
   In his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (April   
   23, 1971), Kerry charged that American soldiers had "raped, cut off   
   ears, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned   
   up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at   
   civilians, razed villages, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food   
   stocks and generally ravaged the countryside of Vietnam." Sounds like an   
   Oliver Stone movie, scripted by Osama bin Laden.   
   No wonder a group of Vietnam vets turned their backs on Kerry when he   
   spoke at the Vietnam War Memorial in 2002. Gen. George S. Patton   
   (namesake of the World War II general) -- who led troops into combat in   
   Vietnam - said Kerry "gave aid and comfort to the enemy." Jeremiah   
   Denton - who was being tortured at the Hanoi Hilton while Kerry was   
   collaborating- could barely maintain civility toward the war hero, when   
   they served together in the Senate.   
   If Americans in Vietnam were butchers and war criminals, what about the   
   Viet Cong? Agrarian reformers, one and all, according to the sage of   
   Boston. In those halcyon days of pot and protest, Kerry insisted the   
   conflict was a "war of the people" fought by indigenous peasant   
   reformers. The senator-to-be apparently had never heard of North   
   Vietnamese regulars, Soviet aid or the Ho Chi Minh trail.   
   Kerry demanded not only an American withdrawal, but the cut-off of all   
   aid to Saigon. If the wicked puppet state fell, at most 2,000 to 3,000   
   of its lackeys might face recrimination, Kerry assured us.   
   After Saigon became Ho Chi Minh City, an estimated 700,000 went through   
   communist reeducation camps. Many never came out. Over a million boat   
   people fled the indigenous, peasant reformers. The fall of South Vietnam   
   led to the fall of Laos and Cambodia - and the genocide of the killing   
   fields. And Kerry is actually trying to sell this foreign-policy   
   expertise as a presidential credential.   
   When it comes to communism, terrorism and thugocracies, Kerry is   
   hopelessly naïve-or willfully blind. As a senator, he fought against   
   American aid to the government of El Salvador during the communist   
   insurgency of the 1980s. He also opposed support for the   
   freedom-fighting Nicaraguan Contras.   
   At the time, he described the Salvadoran military as "some of the most   
   blood-drenched men on the planet." Were the leaders of the Marxist   
   regime which ruled Nicaragua equally savage? Kerry never said so. Daniel   
   Ortega and Company must also have been indigenous, peasant reformers   
   fighting "a war of the people."   
   He's never known to have uttered a word of criticism about Cuban   
   intervention in the Central American conflicts or spoke harshly of   
   Soviet imperialism. Oh, and our rescue mission to Grenada was "a bully's   
   show of force against a weak, third-world nation," according to the   
   likely Democratic nominee.   
   While Ronald Reagan was winning the Cold War, as a senator, Kerry was   
   trying to hamstring the effort. He opposed the MX missile, B-1 Bomber   
   and a missile defense system. Had the war hero prevailed, the Kremlin   
   would still be in business, and opening branch offices all over the   
   world.   
   The foreign-policy genius was still going strong in the '90s. In 1991,   
   he voted against the first Gulf War. (Body-bags would be coming in by   
      
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