see what our Secretary of State says about his country

[Willie99]

He told Congress that U.S. soldiers had "personally 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 in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam."
The night of his testimony, a gang of Kerry's fellow protesters took a large American flag, flipped it upside down and marched around the White House. Critics have said the scene was a deliberate attempt to mock

Kerry chose a photo of the scraggly vets carrying the flipped flag for the cover of his book "The New Soldier," which documented the Dewey Canyon demonstration.
The next day, Kerry joined dozens of other protesters who discarded their war medals on the steps of the Capitol. Years later, the presidential hopeful explained that the medals he threw away actually belonged to somebody else, and that his real medals were displayed on the wall of his office.
The antics of Kerry and his colleagues didn't do much for those who were still fighting the Vietnam War.
Last December, former POW Michael Benges told the Washington Times that retired Gen. George S. Patton III lumped Kerry in with Fonda and Clark, complaining that they had all "given aid and comfort to the enemy."
Even the most famous POW of all, Sen. John McCain, later revealed that his North Vietnamese captors used reports about the Kerry-led protest to taunt him and his fellow prisoners.

 

[Willie99]

he told more lies on the Senate floor. He admitted his lies when his campaign started saying he was "near" Cambodia, which of course actually defeats the whole premise for making such statement of the Senate floor. I especially love the line about how this whopping lie is "SEARED INTO HIS BRAIN"
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Has John Kerry been caught in yet another blatant lie about his military service? From the frantic gyrations of his spin-doctors and their specious explanations of “what really happened,” it would seem the senator’s “Christmas in Cambodia” story is in reality a fable, dreamed up to embellish the already fraudulent candidate’s resumé.​

We read in the Congressional Record of March 27, 1986 (S3594) the following from the Massachusetts senator:​

“Mr. President, I remember Christmas of 1968, sitting on a gunboat in [our italics] Cambodia. I remember what it was like to be shot at by the Vietnamese, Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and I heard the President of the United States [Richard Nixon] telling the American people I was not there, that our troops were not in Cambodia.​

I have that memory which is seared into my brain, that says to me, before we send another generation into harm’s way, we have a responsibility in the United States Senate to go the last step, to make the best effort possible in order to avoid that kind of conflict.”​

First of all, on December 25, 1968, Lyndon Johnson was still President of the United States and would continue to be chief executive until Nixon was sworn into office on January 20, 1969.​

Next, Kerry could not have been “in” Cambodia at that stage of the war. Even his two adoring crewmates – Michael Medeiros and James Wassel have disputed that claim. And being on Kerry’s boat, they should know.​

In December 1968, no U.S. Navy patrol craft would be ordered or authorized to penetrate Cambodian waters. It just did not happen.​

And the line about being fired at by the “Khmer Rouge,” that was the Cambodian Communists, led by Khieu Samphan. Unfortunately for Kerry, that fighting force wasn’t even formed yet when “war hero” Kerry had his pipe dream. The Khmer Rouge came about after the American CIA engineered the overthrow of Prince Sihanouk in 1970.​

 

[Willie99]

[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."
Letter to President Clinton, signed by:
-- Democratic Senators Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and others, Oct. 9, 1998

"I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force -- if necessary -- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security."
-- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Oct. 9, 2002

"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real..."
-- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003

The threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real, but as I said, it is not new. It has been with us since the end of that war, and particularly in the last 4 years we know after Operation Desert Fox failed to force him to reaccept them, that he has continued to build those weapons. He has had a free hand for 4 years to reconstitute these weapons, allowing the world, during the interval, to lose the focus we had on weapons of mass destruction and the issue of proliferation.” — John Kerry, October 9, 2002

Feb 23, 1998: "Saddam Hussein has already used these weapons and has made it clear that he has the intent to continue to try, by virtue of his duplicity and secrecy, to continue to do so. That is a threat to the stability of the Middle East. It is a threat with respect to the potential of terrorist activities on a global basis. It is a threat even to regions near but not exactly in the Middle East.

 

[Acebb]

This clown also said he threw his medals over a fence in protest of the war.

He lied about that too.

Christmas in Cambodia!

 

[Willie99]

HAYES: If we strike, if we strike Assad, what happens if he uses chemical weapons again?
It seems that we have then committed ourself to an escalated punitive…
KERRY: Well, I…
HAYES: – (INAUDIBLE).
KERRY: – I disagree. And, first of all, let – let – let me make this clear. The president – and this is very important, because I think a lot of Americans, all of your listeners, a lot of people in the country are sitting there and saying oh, my gosh, this is going to be Iraq, this is going to be Afghanistan. Here we go again.
I know this. I – I’ve heard it.
And the answer is no, profoundly no. You know, Senator Chuck Hagel, when he was senator, Senator Chuck Hagel, now secretary of Defense, and when I was a senator, we opposed the president’s decision to go into Iraq, but we know full well how that evidence was used to persuade all of us that authority ought to be given.
I can guarantee you, I’m not imprisoned by my memories of or experience in Vietnam, I’m informed by it. And I’m not imprisoned by my memory of how that evidence was used, I’m informed by it. And so is Chuck Hagel. And we are informed sufficiently that we are absolutely committed to not putting any evidence in front of the American people that isn’t properly vetted, properly chased to ground and verified. And we are both convinced that what we are putting before the American people is in the security interests of our country and it will not lead to some further engagement.
There will be no American boots on the ground. This is not Iraq. This is not Afghanistan. This is not even Libya. This is a very limited targeted effort to reduce.

 

[Willie99]

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Wednesday that President Bush broke his promise to build an international coalition against Iraq's Saddam Hussein and then waged a war based on questionable intelligence.
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''He misled every one of us,'' Kerry said. ''That's one reason why I'm running to be president of the United States.''

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should we be more concerned about him lying about Bush? after all there's a long history about what he thought about Saddam and WMD that predates Bush

or should we be concerned about the fact that he's now claims it's easy to fool him? after all, our enemies are going to try and fool him too

only in America can such a snake oil salesman become Secretary of the State and represent this country in international matters. With his history and the words he chose to speak, how is that possible?

 

[roadreeler57]

I feel even worse now for voting for this guy when he ran for President...........But not near as bad as the Obama sheep feel like now...

 

[hehateme82]

He must have misremembered.

 

[russ1945]

That is just simply business as usual in DC. Hypocrites abound. Misery loves company rules. Obama makes Kerry look like a hero, at least Kerry served in the military. Now we have a Commander in Chief who can't even hold a rifle correctly in a photo op. You can't make this stuff up.