http://www.newsmax.com/archives/arti...0/131219.shtml

Looks like Kerry was spitting on Vietnam Vets during JFK's Vietnam War
and he always talks about JFK - the guy who started the Vietnam War.

Denouncing America with ‘Hanoi' Jane: Although Wesley Clark and others
have attacked former front-runner Howard Dean as a draft-dodging ski
bum, Kerry is far more complex than the simple war hero he portrays
himself as.
He became a celebrated organizer for one of America's most extreme
appeasement groups, Vietnam Veterans Against the War. He consorted
with the likes of "Hanoi" Jane Fonda and Ramsey Clark, Lyndon
Johnson's radical former attorney general.

He attended a seminar bankrolled by Fonda in Detroit in February 1971.
Watching 125 self-proclaimed Vietnam veterans testify at a Howard
Johnson's about atrocities allegedly committed by U.S. forces, the man
who would be president later said he found the accounts shocking and
irrefutable.

Dubbed "The Winter Soldier Investigation," the protest attracted
minimal media attention, according to the Los Angeles Times, because
Fonda insisted it be held in the remote Michigan city rather than the
less "authentic" Washington, D.C.


Those evil American soldiers: Testifying before the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee on April 23, 1971, Kerry claimed that U.S.
soldiers had "raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, 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 South Vietnam."

‘We are not the best': In his testimony, Kerry claimed there was no
communist threat and said: "In 1970 at West Point Vice President Agnew
said ‘some glamorize the criminal misfits of society while our best
men die in Asian rice paddies to preserve the freedom which most of
those misfits abuse,' and this was used as a rallying point for our
effort in Vietnam. But for us, as boys in Asia whom the country was
supposed to support, his statement is a terrible distortion from which
we can only draw a very deep sense of revulsion, and hence the anger
of some of the men who are here in Washington today. It is a
distortion because we in no way consider ourselves the best men of
this country …."
U.S. Veteran Dispatch noted in 1996: "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."


Throw as I say, not as I do: On that same day he led members of VVAW
in a protest during which they threw their medals and ribbons over a
fence in front of the U.S. Capitol.
Kerry later admitted the medals he threw were not his. To this day
they hang on the wall of his office.


Communist stooge: The communist Daily World delightedly published
photos of him speaking to demonstrators and boasted that the marchers
displayed a banner depicting a portrait of Communist Party leader
Angela Davis, on record stating, "I am dedicated to the overthrow of
your system of government and your society," the New American recalled
in May 2003.
"By frequently participating in VVAW's demonstrations, Kerry found
himself marching alongside what the Boston Herald Traveler identified
as ‘revolutionary Communists.' While noting that known Reds had openly
organized these events, the December 12, 1971 Herald Traveler reported
the presence of an ‘abundance of Vietcong flags, clenched fists raised
in the air, and placards plainly bearing legends in support of China,
Cuba, the USSR, North Korea and the Hanoi government.'"

Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry says: "As a national leader of
VVAW, Kerry campaigned against the effort of the United States to
contain the spread of Communism. He used the blood of servicemen still
in the field for his own political advancement by claiming that their
blood was being shed unnecessarily or in vain.

"Under Kerry's leadership, VVAW members mocked the uniform of United
States soldiers by wearing tattered fatigues marked with pro-communist
graffiti. They dishonored America by marching in demonstrations under
the flag of the Viet Cong enemy."

Sen. John McCain revealed that his North Vietnamese captors had used
reports of Kerry-led protests to taunt him and his fellow prisoners.
Retired General George S. Patton III angrily noted that Kerry's
actions had "given aid and comfort to the enemy."

In recent years when Kerry has exploited the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
for photo opportunities on Veterans Day, some veterans, still outraged
by his betrayal, have turned their backs on him.


The book he doesn't want you to see: When Kerry ran for election to
the U.S. House of Representative in 1972, "he found it necessary to
suppress reproduction of the cover picture appearing on his own book,
The New Soldier. His political opponent pointed out that it depicted
several unkempt youths crudely handling an American flag to mock the
famous photo of the U.S. Marines at Iwo Jima," according to Vietnam
Veterans Against John Kerry.
"Suddenly, copies of the book became unavailable and even disappeared
from libraries. But the Lowell (Mass.) Sun said of the type of person
shown on its cover: ‘These people spit on the flag, they burn the
flag, they carry the flag upside down, [and] they all but wipe their
noses with it in their efforts to show their contempt for everything
it still stands for,'" the New American reported.

Even today it is hard to find this infamous photo and book.


Sleeping with the enemy: Kerry's fondness for Vietnam's communist
dictatorship, one of the most oppressive in the world, continues.
As chairman of the Select Senate Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, created
in 1991 to investigate reports that U.S. prisoners of war and soldiers
designated missing in action were still alive in Vietnam, Kerry
badgered the panel into voting that no American servicemen remained in
Vietnam.

"[N]o 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," noted U.S. Veteran Dispatch.

"But Kerry's participation in the Committee became controversial in
December 1992," reported the nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity,
"when Hanoi announced that it had awarded Colliers International, a
Boston-based real estate company, an exclusive deal to develop its
commercial real estate potentially worth billions. Stuart Forbes, the
CEO of Colliers, is Kerry's cousin."

The "odd coincidence," according to FrontPageMagazine.com, involved a
deal worth $905 million.

Jeff Jacoby, the token conservative columnist at the Boston Globe,
notes that Kerry continues his apologia for Vietnam's never-ending
atrocities. "Far from taking the lead on the Vietnam Human Rights
Bill, he has prevented it from coming to a vote. He claims that making
an issue of Hanoi's repression would be counterproductive."


Kerry is also a fan of China's communist dictatorship. "On May 19,
1994, five years after Tiananmen Square, Kerry spoke on the Senate
floor against linking China's Most Favored Nation trade status to its
human rights record," Slate reported.

Kerry said: "China is the strongest military power in Asia. We need
China's cooperation. We cannot afford to adopt a cold-war kind of
policy that merely excludes and pushes China away." Limiting China's
MFN status "would make us a bit player in a production of enormous
proportions. We possess no stick, including MFN, which can force China
to embrace internationally recognized human rights and freedoms."


More extreme than Hillary and Kucinich: Among the White House
wannabes, long-shot Rep. Dennis Kucinich has the reputation of holding
the most left-wing congressional voting record. In fact, this "honor"
goes to Kerry.
According to American Conservative Union, Kerry has a lifetime rating
of 6 percent, compared to 13 for the demolished Rep. Dick Gephardt, 14
for Sen. John Edwards, 15 for Kucinich and 19 for Sen. Joe Lieberman.

Sens. Hillary Clinton and Tom Daschle score 13 percent. Only the likes
of Sens. Teddy Kennedy and Barbara Boxer have more left-wing records
than Kerry. In contrast, Sen. John Breaux, one of the upper chamber's
few remaining moderate Democrats, has a 46.



Drive as I say, not as I do: Like Al Gore and other self-described
environmentalists, Kerry has a radical agenda that would devastate the
U.S. economy in favor of the likes of communist China, yet he enjoys
the gas-guzzling modern conveniences that greens denounce. Kerry, a
delegate to the environment-destroying Earth Summit in 1992 (where he
met his future wife, left-wing activist Teresa Heinz, the
multimillionaire widow of GOP Sen. John Heinz), the Kyoto climate
talks in 1997 and the Hague Conference of the U.N. Framework
Convention on Climate Change in 2000, has attacked President Bush for
withdrawing from the anti-U.S. Kyoto Protocol. This treaty, which
then-President Bill Clinton had signed, would impose severe
restrictions on the United States but not Third World polluters that
already enjoy huge trade surpluses with the U.S.
However, although Kerry spouts the party line on anti-U.S. ecopolicy,
he doesn't like to practice what he preaches. NewsMax.com humiliated
him in April 2002 by publishing photos of him attending an
anti-energy-independence rally and then heading back to his SUV, the
symbol of all that is evil to greens.


Bone to pick: Bush-hating conspiracy theorists find it alarming that
the president, like his father, was a member of the secretive Skull
and Bones society at Yale University. Another alum of this club: John
Kerry.

Waffling on Iraq: Kerry has the tough job of wooing Howard Dean's
anti-war Democrats despite his support of the war in Iraq. His
favorite tactic, claiming the president outfoxed him, doesn't hold up
to scrutiny.
On "Meet the Press" in late August, Tim Russert played a tape of Kerry
addressing the Senate in October 2002 with a hard-line speech
declaring Iraq "capable of quickly producing weaponizing" of
biological weapons that could be delivered against "the United States
itself."

Kerry insisted: "That is exactly the point I'm making. We were given
this information by our intelligence community."

However, as columnist Robert Novak noted, "as a senator, Kerry had
access to the National Intelligence Estimate that was skeptical of
Iraqi capability. Being tricky may no longer be as effective
politically as it once was."

No doubt Dean, Lieberman, Clark and other rivals will now use these
and other details to do to Kerry what the Democrats did to Dean.