Imagine General Benedict Arnold declaring himself a "war hero" in 1810 and returning to the United States (formerly colonies) to run for President of the United States. What kind of reception would he get? The equivalent is happening today in 2004.
Loyal Americans think twice about violating the legal provision against negotiating with foreign powers (18 U.S.C. 953) and the Constitutional prohibition against giving support to our nation's enemies during wartime (Article III, Section 3). Patriotic Americans do not openly support proposals that amount to an American surrender to enemies in time of war. (A-1) These considerations apparently carry no weight with John Kerry.
Completely unashamed of his anti-American foreign policy sentiments, Kerry never attempts to deny them, but rather freely admits his willingness to hand over control of America’s military to other countries and the U.N. As stated in the Harvard Crimson, “Kerry said that the United Nations should have control over most of our foreign military operations.” What Kerry seems less proud to say is that he’s an American. Rather, as he proclaimed on February 13, 1970, “I’m an internationalist. I’d like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.” (A-2)
If there is one thing about Kerry's attitude that is consistent, it is that he consistently sides with the enemies of the United States. He proved this during (1) the Vietnam War (1970-1971); (2) the War against Communism in Nicaragua (1985) ; (3) the anti-American activities of Red China (1996); and now (4) the War against Terror (2003-2004). As will be seen, in each case, Kerry's pattern has been to first secretly meet with the enemy and then carefully coordinate his own efforts with that of the enemy, both at home and abroad. This he did with (1) the communist North Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong; (2) the communist Sandanista regime in Nicaragua; (3) the Red Chinese government; and now (4) the terrorist Iranian government. In all cases, the goal has been America's defeat.
It is no wonder that Kerry's campaign for the presidency is endorsed by the Communist Party of the United States. (A-3) Significantly, the reasons for the defeat of President Bush listed by the Communist Party (A-4), closely resemble those used by the Kerry campaign (A-5). According to St. Augustine newspaper columnist D.P. Heimbold, Kerry's campaign theme, "Let America Be America Again," was borrowed from the title of a poem by Communist poet Langston Hughes. (A-6)
18 U.S.C. Sec. 953. - Private correspondence with foreign governments
"Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
"This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply, himself or his agent, to any foreign government or the agents thereof for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects."
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
"The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted."
"No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion aga inst the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
A-2 : See "Bossie Exposes 'The Many Faces of John Kerry,'" by Paige McKenzie, NewsMax.com Wires, Aug. 20, 2004; see also http://www.kerrymyths.edcnet.com/ .
A-3: See "Communist Party USA supports John Kerry," by D.P. Heimbold, www.warriorsfortruth.com, citing "Top Ten Reasons to Defeat Bush - Downloadable Flyer (English & Spanish)," www.cpusa.org.
A-5: See "Communist Party Helping Kerry," Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff, July 18, 2004.
A-6: See "The Stalinist roots of John Kerry's new slogan," by Timothy Noah, June 1, 2004, http://slate.msn.com/id/2101575/; cf. "Communist Party USA supports John Kerry," by D.P. Heimbold, www.warriorsfortruth.com, citing "Top Ten Reasons to Defeat Bush - Downloadable Flyer (English & Spanish)," www.cpusa.org.
After leaving Vietnam early due to his fraudulently-obtained "purple heart" awards, but while still in the navy, in May or June, 1970, Lieutenant Kerry brought his new bride (Julia Thorne) to Paris supposedly on a honeymoon, but secretly met in Paris with delegations from the Viet Cong (PRG) and the communist Hanoi regime (DRV). This was the very enemy that American troops were fighting in Vietnam. In addition to Madame Binh who was in Paris representing the PRG, by his own admission before Congress, John Kerry met with a representative of the North Vietnamese delegation (probably Le Duc Tho). (B-1) The following year Kerry was to espouse the Viet Cong peace proposals set forth at the July 1, 1971 Paris peace talks by Madame Binh as Hanoi's conditions for ending the war (B-2)
In 1971 Kerry joined the Vietnam Veterans Against the War and emceed the Winter Soldier Investigation, both of which were financed by Jane Fonda. "Hanoi" Jane Fonda was not atypical of many anti-war activists, going so far as to tell students at Michigan State University (Nov. 1969), “I think that if you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would someday be communist.” (B-3) On June 29, 1971, according to an FBI report, Kerry praised Vietnam's communist dictator Ho Chi Minh, comparing him to George Washington. (B-3a). As noted by Colonel Oliver North, "The Vietnam Veterans Against the War encouraged people to desert, encouraged people to mutiny - some used what they wrote to justify fragging officers." (B-4)
Kerry became a leader in the VVAW and even testified before Congress on the findings of the supposed Investigation, which he accepted at face value. Kerry liberally used phony veterans and even coerced a few real veterans to testify to atrocities they could not possibly have committed. (B-5) 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.” Kerry later admitted that he never personally witnessed any of these "war crimes." (B-6)
Kerry's words were not his, but provided him by communist sources. According to Ion Mihai Pacepa, "As a spy chief and a general in the former Soviet satellite of Romania, I produced the very same vitriol Kerry repeated to the U.S. Congress almost word for word and planted it in leftist movements throughout Europe." (B-7)
In a subsequent interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" a few weeks after the Wall Street protest, Kerry admitted that "I committed the same kinds of atrocities as thousands of others, in that I shot in free-fire zones, fired .50-caliber machine bullets, used harass-and interdiction fire, joined in search-and-destroy missions and burned villages." (B-8)
On the day Kerry defamed the troops in his Congressional testimony, he led a VVAW protest demonstration, in which some protesters carried Viet Cong Vietnamese flags, and placards in support of China, Cuba, the U.S.S.R., North Korea and the Hanoi government, and gave the communist upraised, clenched fist salute. "Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh! The Viet Cong are going to win!" the demonstrators chanted in unison to express their total support for America's murderous Communist enemies in Southeast Asia. (B-9)
During this demonstration, VVAW members led by Kerry threw their supposedly earned 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. (B-10) Kerry later included his accusations against U.S. troops in his now suppressed book entitled the New Soldier which featured on the cover the American flag upside down, carried by hippies dressed as soldiers in a pose mocking the heroic marines at Iwo Jima. (B-11) Kerry even denounced the United States of America as "the real criminal" in the Vietnam War. "Guilty as Lieutenant Calley may have been of the actual act of murder, the verdict does not single out the real criminal . . . the United States of America," railed the future Democratic presidential hopeful. (B-12)
Specifically, the newly discharged Navy veteran was an advocate of the so-called “People’s Peace Treaty,” a tome reportedly drafted in communist East Germany. It included nine points, all of which were taken from Viet Cong peace proposals at the 1971 Paris peace talks as conditions for ending the war. A key provision of the enemy platform supported by Kerry 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.” (B-13) Pointedly, Kerry also insisted that the United States had a definite obligation to make extensive economic reparations to the "people" [i.e., communist government] of Vietnam. In the end, of course, the American leadership wanted nothing to do with a sham proposition that called for the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Vietnam first, followed later by negotiations for the release of prisoners. (B-14)
Kerry’s blatant advocacy of the enemy's position occurred while hundreds of captured American fighting men suffered and languished as prisoners of war in North Vietnamese prisons. (B-15) For example, Paul Galanti, a Navy pilot had been shot down in 1966 and spent nearly seven years as a prisoner of war. Like other POWs, Galanti learned of Kerry's [1971] speech while held captive inside North Vietnam's infamous "Hanoi Hilton' prison."
"During torture sessions, he said, his captors cited the antiwar speeches as 'an example of why we should cross over to [their] side.'" [P] "'The Viet Cong didn't think they had to win the war on the battlefield,' Galanti said, 'because thanks to these protestors they were going to win it on the streets of San Francisco and Washington.'" [P] He says Kerry broke a covenant among servicemen never to make public criticisms that might jeopardize those still in battle or in the hands of the enemy." [P] "Because he did, Galanti said, 'John Kerry was a traitor to the men he served with.'" [P] "'I don't plan to set it aside. I don't know anyone who does,' he said. 'The Vietnam memorial has thousands of additional names due to John Kerry and others like him.'"
(B-16)
As noted in an introductory review of a book by North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap, "Politically, the Vietnamese [communists] always believed in the importance of the anti-war movement…They encouraged it as best they could, knowing that creating a climate of opinion hostile to the war would be one important way of ending it. In the end, their victory was accelerated by Congress' refusal to vote more aid. That refusal was a response to a climate of public opinion which the anti-war movement helped to forge." (B-17) Interviewed in a Time/Life documentary, "The Ten Thousand Day War," Giap reiterated this point and gave credit for the Communist victory to the U.S. media and protestors like Jane Fonda and John Kerry. (B-18)
General Giap himself referred to the American "New Left" protesters, a name used by the FBI to refer to the SDS, the John Kerry-led VVAW, and the Weatherman terrorists. Giap used news accounts of the “New Left’s” protests to motivate his troops when his troops were ready to quit fighting Americans. (The primary “New Left” leaders were Hanoi Jane Fonda, Hanoi Tom Hayden, and Hanoi John Kerry). Giap "especially used the Kerry group to motivate his troops because he [mistakenly] believed the Kerry led group represented actual American Veterans of the Vietnam war, and their antiwar position greatly motivated his communist troops to continue to fight and kill Americans." (B-19) In effect, this was saying that if it weren't for organizations like Kerry's Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Hanoi would have surrendered to the U.S.
This agrees with the observations of NVA Colonel Bui Tin who served on the General Staff of the North Vietnam Army and who accepted the unconditional surrender of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975. During the interview Mr. Tin was asked if the American antiwar movement was important to Hanoi's victory. Mr. Tin responded "It was essential to our strategy" referring to the war being fought on two fronts, the Vietnam battlefield and back home in America through the antiwar movement on college campuses and in the city streets. He further stated the North Vietnamese leadership listened to the American evening news broadcasts "to follow the growth of the American antiwar movement." Visits to Hanoi made by persons such as Jane Fonda, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and various church ministers "gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses." Mr. Tin surmised that "America lost because of its democracy; through dissent and protest it lost the ability to mobilize a will to win." (B-20)
According to Giap, along with the anti-war movement, [the left-wing media's] distorted reports were inspirational to the NVA. CBS anchor-man Walter Cronkite and others falsely created the impression that Hanoi was achieving military victories when it had not even won a battle, and that American casualties were far higher than was actually the case at the time. As a result, the Hanoi regime "changed their plans from a negotiated surrender and decided instead, they only needed to persevere for one more hour, day, week, month, eventually the protesters in American would help them to achieve a victory they knew they could not win on the battlefield. Remember, this decision was made at a time when the U.S. casualties were fewer than 10,000, at the end of 1967, beginning of 1968. Today, there are 58,000 names on the Vietnam Wall Memorial that was built with the donations made by the American public. Although Giap did not mention each and every protester's name in his book, many of us will never forget the 58,000 names on the Wall. We will also never forget the names of those who helped in placing those additional 48,000 names there: Bill, Jane, Tom, Cronkite, and others." (B-21)
Vietnamese communists have chosen to honor Senator Kerry in their War Crimes Museum for his assistance in helping them achieve victory over the United States. The sign outside the entrance to the room where Kerry's photo is displayed reads: "The World Supports Vietnam in its Resistance." Also exhibited inside the room are protest banners and emblems from various nations and photographs of international leaders who supported North Vietnam's cause. (B-22) Mr. Lupetti also photographed a picture honoring Jane Fonda, who stands next to Nguyen Thi Dinh, deputy commander of the Viet Cong. (B-23)
"From 1969 to the end of the war over 20,000 American soldiers lost their lives in a war that the United States did not have the resolve to win. If General Giap was accurate in his assessment that North Vietnam was going to seek a conditional surrender at the Paris Peace Conference, but stopped due to the sensationalism of the American news media and the anti-war protests following the 1968 Tet Offensive, it follows that those who participated in these anti-war activities have to share partial responsibility for those 20,000 + Americans deaths." (B-24) In addition, thanks to Kerry, Fonda, and others, more than 130,000 Vietnamese took to the boats, a million more fled overland, and more than 750,000 were forced into "re-education camps." Next door in Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge's reign of terror claimed 2,000,000 lives. (B-25)
B-3: See "John Kerry's Trail of Treachery," WinterSoldier.com., April 8, 2004
B-3a: See "Kerry praised Ho Chi Minh!," by Joseph Farah, World Net Daily, August 16, 2004.
B-4: See "Kerry’s Past Is Disturbing On Many Levels," by Frank Salvato, www.americandaily.com, March 10, 2004
B-5: See "Seared in My Memory," Mackubin T. Owens, National Review On Line, September 20, 2004; see also "Vet: Kerry coerced me to testify of atrocities," World Net Daily, September 8, 2004.
B-6: See "'Hanoi John' Kerry Threatens America's Survival," Jewish Task Force, February 18, 2004.
B-7: See "Kerry’s Soviet Rhetoric," by Ion Mihai Pacepa, National Review on Line, February 26, 2004.
B-8: See "Q: Were John Kerry's anti-Vietnam War efforts unpatriotic?", Ted Sampley, Insight Magazine, May 17, 2004
B-9: See "'Hanoi John' Kerry Threatens America's Survival," Jewish Task Force, February 18, 2004.
B-10: See "Q: Were John Kerry's anti-Vietnam War efforts unpatriotic?", Ted Sampley, Insight Magazine, May 17, 2004 .
B-11: See "Website Exposes Kerry's 1971 Antiwar Book, Activities" By Jeff Gannon, Talon News; February 24, 2004.
B-12: See "Kerry Denounced U.S. as 'The Real Criminal' in Vietnam", Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff, Feb. 15, 2004, citing the Baltimore Sun, Feb. 14, 2004, and New York Times reports in 1971.
B-13: See Congressional Record, April 22, 1971, U.S. Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations, Wash., D.C.; "Joint Treaty of Peace Between the People of The United States of America, South Vietnam and North Vietnam", provision 2.
B-14: See "Why Families Say Kerry Betrayed POWs and MIAs," by Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com, Friday, Feb. 13, 2004.
B-15: See "Vietnam POWs Say Kerry's Words and Deeds Were Used by Guards to Torture Them," by Richard Tomkins, Insight, Aug. 4, 2004.)
B-16: See "Comments of former POW Paul Galanti," as reported by John M. Gilonne of the Los Angeles Times, Feb. 17, 2004", http://www.powmiafamiliesagainstjoh...formerpows.htm; "POWs blast Kerry in TV documentary," by Art Moore, World Net Daily, August 24, 2004.
B-17: See Introductory essay "The Fall of Washington," by Danny Schechter, summarizing an English translation of a 1985 book by North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap, "How We Won the War," cited in "The POWs Speak" by Jed Babbin, American Spectator, 9/7/2004, and 9/27/04.
B-22: See "Kerry honored at communist museum," 2004 WorldNetDaily.com, June 1, 2004; "More evidence communists honoring Kerry," 2004 WorldNetDaily.com, June 15, 2004; "Kerry's Photo Raises Eyebrows in Museum in Ho Chi Minh City." by Josh Gerstein, New York "Sun," August 16, 2004.
B-23: See "John Kerry, the war protester, honored by Communist Vietnamese officials as a hero in their victory over the United States in the Vietnam War," May 31, 2004, Vietnam Vets for the Truth, http://www.kerrylied.com.
Part C: Aiding Communist Expansion in Our Own Hemisphere (1985)
In the mid-1980s, prior the the collapse of the Soviet Union and its empire of captive nations, world communism continuedto be the major threat to to the United States and the Free World. At the time, the USSR posed a dual threat: (1) as the foremost strategic nuclear-missile threat, and (2) as the world's primary sponsor of international terrorism. By the 1960s, communist imperialism had been allowed to spread into the Western Hemisphere, expanding from its initial infection point in Cuba. Before the advent of the Reagan era, a Soviet-backed Marxist-Leninist junta had taken power in Nicaragua. That junta, known as the Sandinista National Liberation Front, had by now sponsored communist guerrilla and terrorist groups from neighboring countries and presented a threat to the entire region.
In order to counter this threat, Reagan, with the help of a bipartisan majority in Congress, financed an anticommunist guerrilla army in Nicaragua, made up mainly of peasants disenfranchised by the the Sandinista junta. To prevent the junta from consolidating power, Reagan strongly backed the resistance fighters, whom the Sandinistas dubbed "contras," in order to pressure the regime either to hold free and fair elections or be overthrown.
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U.S. involvement in resisting the Soviet-backed revolutionary movements in Central America was a politically emotional issue at the time, and the highly charged atmosphere forced Reagan to tread carefully on Capitol Hill. Seeking the release of a $14 million appropriation from the previous year for the Nicaraguan resistance, and faced with public opposition, Reagan offered to limit U.S. aid to the "contras" to humanitarian assistance only, provided the Sandinistas agreed to national reconciliation and free elections that would have broken their total grip on power. The president told Congress that if the Sandinistas failed to comply by the deadline, he would use part of the $14 million to arm and militarily equip the growing insurgent army.
Reagan's compromise with Congress wasn't good enough for Kerry, the only freshman senator on the then-prestigious Foreign Relations Committee. For the new lawmaker, Central America was a cause -- and he was on the other side. In announcing his candidacy for the U.S. Senate, on Jan. 26, 1984, at Boston's Park Plaza Hotel, Kerry assailed Reagan's anticommunist, pro-democracy policy as barbaric, falsely accusing the administration of backing the most thuggish and undemocratic elements in Central America. In April, 1985, barely three months after being sworn as a senator, Kerry became one of the leading opponents of President Reagan's effort to defeat Soviet-sponsored revolutionaries in the American hemisphere. The junior senator stopped at nothing: working with America's sworn ideological enemies, making damaging, distorted and often baseless allegations about U.S. covert operations, accusing his own government of sponsoring terrorism, and even damaging an FBI operation against a Colombian cocaine cartel
Late on April 18, 1985 Kerry and other members of the Democratic Party's far left wing (such as Harkin) arrived in the Nicaraguan capital for two days of scheduled talks with Marxist officials. On the eve of his meeting with Ortega, Kerry told the Boston Globe correspondent in Managua that the talks would "provide them [Kerry and Harkin] with enough information to sway congressional votes on the issue of aid to antigovernment rebels." According to the New York Times, Harkin and Kerry said "that they were seeking commitments that could help defeat President Reagan's request."
The Globe reported from Managua, "After marathon meetings with the senators that spilled into the early-morning hours, Ortega reasserted Nicaragua's [alleged] commitment to Central America as a zone free of nuclear weapons and foreign military bases, including those of the Soviet Union and Cuba." Kerry foreign-policy aide Richard McCall and Sandinista officials collaborated on a working paper that Kerry said he would present to President Reagan. Reportedly, Ortega himself was at their side for the last three hours of the meeting. The final three-page product, which Kerry called a "peace proposal," included Sandinista promises of a cease-fire, as long as the United States cut off all assistance, including humanitarian aid, to the anticommunist forces and their families.. In other words, there would be no interference with communist expansion in the Western Hemisphere.
Despite the fact that In the plan the Sandinistas made no commitment to national reconciliation, in an emotional April 23 speech in the Senate, Kerry presented the document as something new, that "will give peace a chance." He even characterized it as "a guarantee of the security interest of the United States," "without having to militarize the region." Nevertheless, acceptance of the plan took Ortega's word for everything. Without mentioning his own role in drafting the document, Kerry said, "I share with this body the aide-mémoire which was presented to us by President Ortega."
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., took the unusual step April 23 of rebuking his colleagues and accusing Kerry and Harkin of breaking the law and "transgressing" against the Constitution by holding unauthorized negotiations with a foreign leader.
A State Department official pointed out that the so-called "Ortega plan" was fraudulent and nothing more than a "restatement of old positions [without any] . . . mention of any dialogue with the unified democratic opposition, which we [the United States] consider essential to internal reconciliation. Without such a dialogue, a cease-fire proposal is meaningless, essentially a call for the [anticommunist] opposition to surrender."
A White House spokesman dismissed the Kerry-Harkin-Ortega plan as nothing more than "propaganda." White House spokesman Larry Speakes pointed out, "The very hour the House was rejecting the aid package [to the Nicaraguan resistance], President Ortega was going to Moscow to seek funds for his Marxist regime." White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan went further, accusing congressional Democrats of "supporting communism" in Central America.
Secretary of State George Shultz referred to "the fate of the people of Cuba, South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos." He pointed out, "those who assure us that these dire consequences are not in prospect [in Central America] are some of those who assured us of the same in Indochina before 1975. The litany of apology for communists, and condemnation for America and our friends, is beginning again." Just as the Vietnamese communists used progressive and nationalist slogans to conceal their intentions, the Nicaraguan communists employ the slogans of social reform, nationalism and democracy to obscure their totalitarian goals." The reality would be dictatorships, refugees, and broken promises. Here is your parallel between Vietnam and Central America. In addition, we would have "another Cuba in this hemisphere," together with "widened Soviet influence," but "this time near our very borders."
Most of Kerry's Senate colleagues ignored the plan and voted for aid to the Nicaraguan resistance. The House, however, voted against the aid. Kerry was thrilled. So was Ortega, who immediately announced a trip to the U.S.S.R. to petition for $200 million more in Soviet support. Kerry didn't blame the Sandinistas for going to Moscow, of course. Instead, he blasted the Reagan administration for rejecting his "peace offer."
That April 1985 journey to Nicaragua would become a trademark of the Kerry school of statecraft: making common cause with enemies of the United States -- and allowing himself to be used by them -- in order to win political battles at home.
(C-1.)
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Fed by supportive journalists and Washington-based think tanks that supported the Sandinistas, Kerry put his experience as a former assistant county prosecutor to work in 1986, launching a full-scale "investigation" of his own to discredit the Nicaraguan resistance and the Reagan administration. Kerry's probe, alleging an international criminal conspiracy, coincided with lawsuits against retired Army Gen. John Singlaub and others in what was called a legal harassment campaign against American opponents of the Sandinista regime, alleging bizarre international plots.
In the summer of 1986 Kerry's treasonous collaboration with the Sandinistas took the tact of alleging that the contras were a major hub in an international cocaine-smuggling operation. In so doing, the senator damaged an FBI investigation of Colombia's Medellin cartel. According to federal law-enforcement officials, aides to Kerry "severely damaged a federal drug investigation . . .by interfering with a witness while pursuing allegations of drug smuggling by the Nicaraguan resistance," the Washington Times reported in January 1987. The FBI repeatedly had warned the staffers to back off, pointing out that they were endangering an ongoing federal antidrug operation. After Kerry's staff stepped in, an FBI informant became "spooked" by going to Massachusetts, and feeling she had to be protected. As a result of Kerry's intimidation, she stopped cooperating with the FBI, changing her story to include the contras as part of the plot.
By early 1987, even with the Iran-Contra scandal unfolding against the Reagan administration, Kerry's own drug-conspiracy allegations continued to crumble. One of Kerry's star witnesses, a cocaine trafficker (Jorge Morales) recanted and related that he had fabricated much of his story. Federal law-enforcement officials, "said Kerry's work was based largely on unsubstantiated allegations from informants, most of whom already have been interviewed by federal law-enforcement officials and some of whom have previously been found to be unreliable. A number of them are charged with various crimes or are in jail." Kerry refused to let a former CIA operative (Felix Rodriguez, a Cuban-American), who had testified at a closed hearing of the senator's subcommittee, make his testimony public so he could clear his name. Finally, the Washington Times revealed that Kerry had concealed evidence of Sandinista drug trafficking and had deleted information from his staff report of the previous October to pin the blame on the Sandinistas' U.S.-backed opponents
The cases collapsed under legal scrutiny but made sensational headlines that fueled Reagan opponents for years.
Part D: Bargain With Red China: Campaign Contributions for Market Fraud and Espionage (1996)
In 1996, Kerry's re-election campaign received a $10,000 contribution from Red Chinese agent Johnny Chung, who laundered contributions for both the Clinton/Gore '96 election campaign and for Kerry. This was at least in part for Kerry's assistance in arranging a high level meeting between aerospace companies fronting for Red Chinese military intelligence (including Lt. Col. Liu Chaoying, a high ranking PRC military intelligence operative) and the S.E.C. (D-1) One apparent objective of the Red Chinese was access to American capital markets, including loopholes and lax application of U.S. disclosure rules, allowing the PRC to fraudulently manipulate the market to swindle unsuspecting investors. (D-2) Another could be access to aerospace technology with military potential through partial control of relevant companies. (D-3)
"The legal watchdog group Judicial Watch announced the release of recently declassified documents that indicate Sen. John Kerry accepted laundered contributions from the communist Chinese government for his 1996 re-election campaign. [P] "In exchange, Judicial Watch suspects, the presidential candidate might have arranged meetings between Chinese aerospace executives and U.S. government officials. [P] "'These disturbing FBI documents raise further questions about Sen. Kerry's involvement in what looks like a quid pro quo [cash for meetings] with the communist Chinese,' said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton [P] An Insight magazine report published by WND earlier this month revealed a new photograph has emerged showing the Massachusetts senator in Beijing working with a company associated with the Chinese military." (D-4)
Early in the 2004 presidential campaign, Kerry boasted of having foreign backers. When a prospective voter asked who they are, Kerry arrogantly replied that their identity is "my business, not yours." Subsequently, Kerry received overt endorsements from communist North Korea (Kim Jong Il), communist Cuba (Castro), Al Jazeera (Al Qaeda's news agency), Palestinian terrorist Yassir Arafat, avowed anti-Semitic former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed, and most importantly theocratic Iran. (E-1)
One of Kerry's foreign backers is the leading symbol to date of terrorism's success, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the newly elected Socialist Worker Party Prime Minister of Spain, who lost no time in pulling Spain's troops out of Iraq. (E-2) Kerry's election would be an even greater victory for Al Qaeda than was Spain.)
As to the war against terror, Kerry has pledged that if elected he will abandon the president's war on terror, begin a dialogue with terrorist regimes and apologize for three-and-one-half years of alleged mistakes by the Bush administration. Kerry had the audacity to tell NBC News as recently as January, 2004 that the terrorist threat against America was "exaggerated." (E-2a) In a sweeping foreign-policy address to the Council on Foreign Relations in December, 2003, Kerry called the U.S. war on terror as conceived and led by President Bush "the most arrogant, inept, reckless and ideological foreign policy in modern history." (E-3) Beginning his dialogue at home, John Kerry has addressed the Muslim Public Affairs Council, an anti-Semitic gang which has defended the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah, and whose cofounder and executive director and cofounder picked 9/11 to proclaim that "we should put the state of Israel on the suspect list" for the al-Qaeda attacks that day that killed more than 3,000 on the U.S. mainland. (E-4)
Kerry would impede the ability of our country to act pre-emptively to remove a foreign threat by requiring an undefined "global test" before we could act. (E-5) He also contends that to demonstrate good faith in the struggle against nuclear proliferation, the U.S. should unilaterally disarm itself by canceling research of "bunker-busting nuclear weapons," useful to wipe out underground nuclear installations built by rogue states like Iran. The obvious result of such a unilateral disarmament would be continued nuclear threats, terrorism and greater loss of life of American and coalition troops. (E-6) Even since 9/11, Kerry’s anti-American approach to foreign enemies has not changed. After proposing billions of dollars in cuts to America's intelligence and defense after each of the terrorist attacks against America throughout the '90s, Kerry even proposed a $10 billion cut after 9/11 - $150 million of it just two short months after the attack. (E-6a)
Radio Pyongyang, the official mouthpiece of the North Korean communist dictatorship, broadcasts Kerry's speeches in "glowing terms" and writes, "Pyongyang seems to hope victory for the Democratic candidate on November 2 would lead to a softening in U.S. policy towards the country’s nuclear weapons program." (E-7)
A key participant in terrorism's "axis of evil" is the theocratic and increasingly nuclear armed, Shiite regime in Iran. (E-8) Like the Baath party regime in Iraq, Iran is also allied with Al Qaeda (E-9) and also played a role in the September 11 attacks (E-10). "Ever since the Iranian Revolution occurred during Jimmy Carter's presidency a quarter-century ago, Tehran has been hostile to the United States and one of the world's leading supporters of terrorism - providing funding, weapons, training and safe haven to groups like Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and even al Qaeda." (E-11) Even today the murderous Iranian regime tops the State Department's list of supporters of international terrorism. (E-12)
While still awaiting Democratic nomination, Kerry secretly e-mailed Iran (via its government-controlled news agency), criticizing his own country's foreign policy and seeking Iranian support for his candidacy. (E-13) Subsequently, at least four Iranian-Americans sympathetic to the Iranian theocracy have taken prominent roles in Kerry's fund-raising. (E-14) For his part, Kerry stated , "as president, I will be prepared early on to explore areas of mutual interest with Iran, just as I was prepared to normalize relations with Vietnam a decade ago." (E-15) He suggested that the Bush administration's unwillingness to bargain with Tehran is to blame for Iran's harboring of al Qaeda operatives. (E-16)
On September 30, 2004 in debating President Bush, Kerry insisted as president he would provide Tehran with the nuclear fuel it wants for a pledge to use it for peaceful purposes only. (E-17) While thus arming Iran, Kerry would deprive America of the "bunker buster" bombs necessary to defend against Iran's violation of its pledge. (E-18) At the same time, Iran's own terrorist organization Hezbollah (as well as Hamas) is the recipient of funds ultimately derived from Teresa Heinz Kerry. (E-19)
For Aryo Pirouznia, who chairs the Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran , Kerry's offer to negotiate with hard-liners in the regime smacks of lunacy. "America is incredibly popular with the Iranian masses, so this is a grave mistake for a short-term benefit," Pirouznia says. "To the regime, this sends a message that America is willing to make a deal despite the blood of Americans who were murdered in Dhahran [Saudi Arabia] and are being killed today in Iraq by so-called foreign elements." (E-20)
Meanwhile, Iran's terrorist stooge in Iraq Moqtada Al Sadr, centered in Najaf, is fighting against America and its coalition allies, one episode resulting in the killing of 20 American GIs in two days. On October 10, 2003 Muqtada al-Sadr announced his intention to form an Islamic state in Iraq by establishing a shadow government there, complete with ministries. Fighting broke out in Karbala on 13 October 2003 when al-Sadr's men attacked supporters of moderate Shi'ite Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani near the Imam Hussein shrine. (E-21) Kerry criticized coalition closure of Al Sadr's newspaper, which had published false stories blaming the coalition forces for local acts of terrorism. Prior to catching himself, Kerry referred to Al Sadr as a "legitimate voice in Iraq." (E-22) The Independent Media Institute (AlterNet), funded by Teresa Heinz Kerry, urged anti-Americans to come to New York City to show rejection of the ongoing war in Iraq by rioting in the streets outside the Republican National Convention. "It's time to bring Najaf [site of the Al Sadr uprising in Iraq] to New York.” (E-23)
As he did in Vietnam, Kerry attempts to undermine the morale of our troops in Iraq, suggesting that the Iraq war is one against "the Iraqi people," and is merely a "grand diversion" from the war on terror, as well as
a “colossal error,” an “incredible mess," and the “wrong war” in the “wrong place” at the “wrong time.”
(E-24) In competing for the Democrat nomination, to the delight of the enemy Kerry stated that rather than a regime change in Iraq, a "regime change" was needed in the United States. (E-25) Parroting enemy propaganda, Kerry characterized the American presence in Iraq as one of "occupation" rather than liberation. (E-26) In one e-mail message received and published by the government-controlled Iranian news agency, Kerry's advisers enlisted overseas Democrats to launch a letter-writing and op-ed campaign denouncing the Bush foreign-policy record. (E-27)
Just as he did during the Vietnam war, Kerry is participating in the enemy's effort to undermine the coalition in Iraq and to de-moralize American troops. (E-28) America's coalition partners are insulted as constituting "mere window dressing," and a ''trumped-up, so-called coalition of the bribed, the coerced, the bought and the extorted" and Iraq's democratic interim prime minister Iyad Alawi is characterized by Joe Lockhart, a Kerry adviser, as "a puppet of the United States." (E-29) Meanwhile, Kerry's sister is in Australia, as is Al Qaeda, both seeking to undermine support for America's ally, Prime Minister John Howard. The goal is to replace Howard with the Labor Party candidate who is pledged to pull Australian troops out of Iraq. In pursuit of that goal, Diana Kerry warned Australia that support for President Bush would increase the terrorist threat to Australia, pointing out that "[t]he most recent attack was on the Australian embassy in Jakarta." (E-30)
Today, world leaders who oppose terrorism are under attack. Tony Blair is under attack in England. John Howard is under attack in Australia. Asnar was defeated in Spain. However, the terrorists' biggest prize has thus far eluded them: George W. Bush in the United States. As stated by James Lileks, "Let’s just be blunt: The North Koreans would love to see John Kerry win the election. The mullahs of Iran would love it. The Syrian Ba’athists would sigh with relief. Every enemy of America would take great satisfaction if the electorate rejects the Bush doctrine and scuttles back to hide under the U.N. Security Council’s table. It’s a hard question, but the right one: Which candidate does our enemy want to lose? George W. Bush." (E-31)
E-1: See "Best of the Web Today," by James Taranto, Opinion Journal, Wall Street Journal, March 16, 2004; "The Distinguished List of Kerry Supporters," Ben Shapiro, Town Hall, March 17, 2004; "An endorsement Kerry didn’t want," Valley Morning Star, March 7, 2004 [re Kim Jong-il]; "Al Jazeera Praises Kerry," Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff, March 16, 2004; "Yasser Arafat endorses Kerry," by Aaron Klein, http://worldnetdaily.com, October 18, 2004; "Castro Backs Kerry," Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff, Aug. 9, 2004; "John Kerry's Foreign Friends," By Mark Landsbaum, FrontPageMagazine.com, April 21, 2004 [Mahathir Mohamed].
E-2: See "Kerry reaches out to a world," by Ewen MacAskill, and Luke Harding in Berlin, The Guardian, March 10, 2004.)
E-2a: See "Bossie Exposes 'The Many Faces of John Kerry,'" by Paige McKenzie, NewsMax.com Wires, Aug. 20, 2004.
E-3: See "Kerry would abandon terror war," WorldNetDaily, March 2, 2004.
E-4: See "Kerry Squeezing Wife's Ketchup Connections for All They're Worth ," Insight, April 12, 2004.
E-5: See "Putting Kerry to His 'Global Test,'" by Larry Kudlow, Town Hall, October 1, 2004.)
E-6: See "The Most Important Comment of the Debate," by Roger L. Simon, September 30, 2004.
E-6a: See "Bossie Exposes 'The Many Faces of John Kerry,'" by Paige McKenzie, NewsMax.com Wires, Aug. 20, 2004.
E-7: See "John Kerry's Foreign Friends," By Mark Landsbaum, FrontPageMagazine.com | April 21, 2004, quoting the London Financial Times.
E-8: See "The Nuclear Axis of Evil," by Michael Ledeen, National Review On Line, May 12, 2003; "It's Almost Too Late to Stop Iran," by Henry Sokolsky, Opinion Journal, Wall Street Journal, September 27, 2004.
E-9: See "9/11 Commission Finds Ties Between al-Qaeda and Iran," by Adam Zagorin and Joe Klein, Time On Line Ed., Jul. 16, 2004 [Al Qaeda links];
E-10: See "Defector Points Finger at Iran in September 11 Plot," by Kenneth R. Timmerman, Insight, Feb. 4, 2004; "US looking into whether Iran involved in September 11 plot," New Zealand Herald, October 7, 2004; "Surprise witness to link Iran to September 11 hijacks," by John Crewdson, Cam Simpson, The Age (Australia), January 23, 2004.
E-11: See "Kerry and the Ayatollahs," The Washington Times, March 1, 2004. )
E-12: See "Kerry Will Abandon War on Terrorism," by Kenneth R. Timmerman, Insight, March 1, 2004.
E-13: See "Kerry Says He Will Repair Damage If He Wins Election ," Tehran Times, Mehr News Agency, February 8, 2004; "Iranian News Agency Alleges John Kerry Sends Email Message," Middle East Media Research Institute, February 11, 2004.
E-14: See "John Kerry's Iranian-American Fund-Raisers," by Kenneth R. Timmerman, Insight, March 1, 2004.
E-15: See "Persian Power," by Peter Brookes, Military.com, September 13, 2004.
E-16: See "Kerry and the ayatollahs," The Washington Times, March 01, 2004.
E-17: See "Money trail behind Kerry's Iran stance", WorldNetDaily.com, October 3, 2004.
E-18: See "The Most Important Comment of the Debate," by Roger L. Simon, September 30, 2004.
E-19: See “Heinz Kerry-Funded Web Site Praises Hezbollah,” by Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff, June 15, 2004 [Hezbollah]; “Teresa Heinz Kerry: Bag Lady for the Radical Left,” by Ben Johnson, FrontPageMagazine.com, Feb. 13, 2004 [Hamas]; "57 Varieties of Radical Causes, Part I," by Ben Johnson,
FrontPageMagazine.com, September 16, 2004.
E-20: See "Kerry Will Abandon War on Terrorism," By Kenneth R. Timmerman, Insight, March 1, 2004.
E-22: See "Kerry: Terrorist Shiite Al-Sadr 'a Legitimate Voice,'" by Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff, April 7, 2004.
E-23: See "57 Varieties of Radical Causes, Part II," by Ben Johnson, FrontPageMagazine.com, September 17, 2004.
E-24: See "Kennedy, Kerry offer troops little support," by Ken Johnson, www.eagletribune.com, April 11, 2004 ["war against the Iraqi people"]; "Why a John Kerry Presidency Would Lead to Doom in Iraq," by John Hawkins, www.chronwatch.com, October 04, 2004 ["grand diversion"]; "Putting Kerry to His 'Global Test'” by Larry Kudlow, National Review On Line, October 01, 2004.
E-25: See "Kerry's 'Regime Change' Comments Draw Fire," Fox News, April 3, 2003.
E-26: See "Senator Kerry: End US Occupation of Iraq," Agence France-Presse, 16 July 2003.
E-27: See "Kerry Will Abandon War on Terrorism," by Kenneth R. Timmerman, Insight, March 1, 2004.
E-28: See "Kerry's mistakes," by Debra J. Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle, July 4, 2004.
E-29: See "Kerry: Fifteen Percent of Coalition deaths just 'Window Dressing,'" www.dailynewsbrief.com, March 17, 2004; "Kerry: Bush should bend on Iraq," By Thomas Beaumont, Des Moines Register, March 9, 2003; "A Not-So-Phony Coalition: Does Kerry think insults will win allies?," by Gerard Baker, Weekly Standard, September 20, 2004, Volume 010, Issue 02; "Why a John Kerry Presidency Would Lead to Doom in Iraq," by John Hawkins, www.chronwatch.com, October 04, 2004.
E-30: See "The Art Of Losing Friends," by Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post, September 24, 2004; Page A25."
E-31: See James Lileks, http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/lileks021204.html>
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