John Kerry lives in a space/time continuum separate from the rest of the world. He has managed to go from his disloyal-to-America days of the 1970's straight into 2004, skipping the intervening years by way of a worm-hole, & picking up from where he left off. The latest Kerry-Edwards television ad bemoans the problems in Iraq, stating that terrorists are pouring into Iraq, that there are kidnappings & murders & calling Iraq a quagmire. The ad carries a calculated defeatist attitude, designed to invalidate & distort the progress being made in Iraq, since only if Kerry can ignore the positive & accentuate the negative in Iraq can he hope to dispirit Americans & bring voters to his side. This is not only a crass & base attempt at dislodging support for the war with the American voter so that he can realize his egotistical life-long dream of being President, but it is again another shameful act of disloyalty against this country.
But this is nothing new with Kerry. Zoom back through his worm-hole to the '70's in the blink of an eye & we see the same disloyal Kerry during the Vietnam "quagmire", as the anti-war crowd put it. Here we see Kerry again in his attempts to dispirit the country in the middle of a war so that he could make a name for himself & further his political aspirations. His infamous speech to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971 is full of lies, deceits, embellishments & pathetically naive analysis of the Cold War. His claim to fame in that speech was his savage attack on U.S. soldiers, accusing them of war crimes & giving patently untruthful accounts about them brutalizing & sacking Vietnam. Read the speech
here.
John Kerry in that speech also disavowed Communism as a world threat & discounted those who saw such a threat as throw-backs to a Cold War mentality. He saw no imminent threat to America & thus no reason to be in Vietnam. He said that America couldn't fight Communism the world over & that we had our Polaris submarines to protect against threats. Little did he realize that 30 years later Communism would be replaced with Terrorism as a world threat & that a Polaris could do little to stop a WMD attack. He had the naive & ignorant view that any type of government is okay, as long as the people get what they want & if they don't then all they have to do is remove that government.
The 1970's Kerry was an oracle of doom & gloom about Vietnam. His testimony & actions undermined the war effort at that time & encouraged the enemy to hang tough. He sought to discredit any notions that the United States was achieving success in Vietnam & repeatedly gave the false impression that the Vietnamese people did not want us there. He held a blind eye to the atrocities of the enemy. He refused to see that what he called a civil war was really a Communist insurgent attack on the South Vietnamese government, backed by an invading North Vietnamese army & supplied by the Chinese & Russians. He was seriously lacking in understanding the geo-political dynamics of those times. But that didn't stop his diatribe against America.
Zoom forward again to the present. In the mush that is his Iraq policy, he again plays the defeatist & naysayer of American policy in an engagement against the bad guys. Kerry would have you believe nothing good is happening in Iraq, contrary to
this.
When the Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi came to the U.S. the other day, Kerry responded, "I think the prime minister is, obviously, contradicting his own statement of a few days ago, where he said the terrorists are pouring into the country. The prime minister and the president are here obviously to put their best face on the policy, but the fact is that the CIA estimates, the reporting, the ground operations and the troops all tell a different story." Kerry advisor Joe Lockhardt was even more reprehensible when he said, "The last thing you want to be seen as is a puppet of the United States, and you can almost see the hand underneath the shirt today moving the lips", referring to Bush/Allawi press conference.
Kerry was chided for his remarks by Dick Cheney & others as being negative & unproductive, considering that Kerry as President would have to work with PM Allawi. So much for improving ties with allies as he claims he will do. Consider
this response to Kerry.
Kerry is indeed a graceless, little man. And disloyal. His only interest is getting elected & if it takes bashing & undermining the Iraq situation & encouraging the enemy, as he did in Vietnam, then he will do it in a heart beat. The man has no honor.
....from sea to shining sea