Excellent MUST READ Article on John Kerry & His Presidential Bid!

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DAMAGE CONTROL - Voters Need to Believe that John Kerry can put the Country Back on Track.

The New Yorker Magazine, by Philip Gourevitch
Issue of 2004-07-26, Posted 2004-07-19
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040726fa_fact

NOTE: This is an excellent, but long, “must read” article on Senator John Kerry. For those that do not know The New Yorker magazine, since 1925 has maintained some of the best investigative reporters in the Country, has very high journalistic standards, is Democrat based, and a passive supporter of Senator’s Kerry’s Presidential election efforts.

One of their investigative journalists is Seymour M. Hersh who broke the Vietnam My Lai village Massacre by U.S. Troops in 1969, that then Major Colin Powell (currently Secretary of State) personally covered up, along with the whole damn Army and Nixon Administration. Hersh got a Pulitzer Prize when he broke that little jewel!

Mr. Hersh was also the one to break the Iraqi prisoners torture scandal at Abu Ghraid, on April 30 2004. He was the only person the soldier that had the pictures and evidence trusted to do the right thing by investigating and publishing the story.

Of course, President Bush publicly called Seymour a liar and a phony at a White House press conference over his Abu Ghraid article. Well, the World found out who the liar and the phony was and it was George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld who the public learned last week is directly responsible for those horrible prison atrocities that set the U.S. back 50 years in our Middle East diplomatic relationships according to Middle East experts and greatly fueled the growth of Islamic terrorist!

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In the New Yorker article “Damage Control” the following was stated about John Kerry:

“Samuel Popkin, a political scientist at the University of California at San Diego, remembers the effect of John Kerry’s testimony in the Senate in 1971, as “second only to Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech.”

COMMENT: I/WE THINK THAT PRETTY WELL SAYS IT ALL ABOUT JOHN KERRY!

Mr. Popkin refers to the exact same speech that Bush-Cheney-GOP backed fraud John O’Neill and his maggot SBVT organization is slamming Kerry over, disgracing the whole damn Navy, and the intelligence of the voting public!

If memory serves me correct, Kerry was 27 when he delivered that U.S. history making speech, that single handedly helped to stop that hell-hole Vietnam/Southeast Asia War that resulted in over 8 million deaths and injury, and lasted 20 years, the longest in U.S. history!

Kerry was so good at the ’71 Senate Foreign Relations hearing, that he really scared President Nixon and his Administration. They were worried that Kerry would blow their Government’s cover that the Vietnam War was
1)...Totally out of control;
2)...Atrocities by U.S. Troops were becoming wide spread;
3)...Under Henry Kissinger’s love and guidance, the U.S. had killed/injured over 1 million Laos
and Cambodia citizens in massive illegal B52 bombing runs on the other side of the Vietnamese border, and
4)...We were badly losing the war, yet the Administration totally lied to the public and said otherwise.

FYI, We dropped a little over TWICE the tonnage of bombs on Vietnam/Southeast Asia than we dropped in all of World War II. Do your history and understand the seriousness of what you just read!

I will post a great write up of the Nixon-Kerry Years, with links to transcripts and audios of President Nixon and his staff talking about how powerful and sharp John Kerry was and they had to figure out a way to discredit and drag him down. That’s when Nixon’s personal aid and legal advisor Charles Colsen, found John O’Neill to use as a Nixon Administration puppet and cheap patsy. I also have the transcripts and audio tapes of this situation.

In one conversation Nixon’s Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman, said John Kerry was like a clone of the late President John F. Kennedy, and they had to shut him down because of his ability and similarity, which would bring huge public appeal. You must remember that Kerry and his anti-war protesting “appeared from nowhere” and the Nixon Administration had no idea who he was, other than Kerry was very good.

If you know your Kennedy Family history well, as I do, you then know that John Kerry, knew President John F. Kennedy personally when Kerry was young. Kerry even went on several personal outings with President Kennedy in ’61 and ’62. I have approx. 15 pictures of young Kerry and President John F. Kennedy together that I can post if people would like.

During Bill Clinton’s Presidency he made many references to President John F. Kennedy and his legacy, having never met him.

As to John Forbes Kerry,...he knew the legend personally! - NKR
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1. Excellent.

Haven't seen the New Yorker piece yet, but am definitely getting it.

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2. one slight correction

Clinton did meet JKF once when Clinton was part of a "young leaders" group from Arkansas

and I believe kerry only met JKF once at Hyannis Port when he was dating Jackie's sister. They did go sailing together that day tho.. I could be wrong on that one, but I know Clinton met JKF in the WH

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4. Your Right, after I made my post I remember Clinton talking about it.

Thanks for the picture! I've never seen it.

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5. I've got personal Kerry-JFK pics from 4-5 different times, and

understand there are more around, but don't know. Will check it out.

Thanks, good info. :-)

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3. You're right, it IS LONG! I'm printing it now.

Isn't Hersh supposed to have another article or a book soming out soon?

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6. President Nixon & Staff Praise John Kerry-Excellent Read!

The President Nixon - John F. Kerry Years, 1971
White House Transcripts and Tapes
Obtained From the National Archives branch in College Park, Md.

When John Kerry came to Washington in April 1971 to lead a protest against the Vietnam War, his actions drew the attention of President Richard Nixon and top White House aides. As Kerry got more publicity, Nixon told aides that he wasn't worried about the "bearded weirdos" who gathered on the mall, but was quite concerned about the impact of the neat, articulate, and much-decorated veteran from Massachusetts, John Forbes Kerry.

Luckily, Nixon recorded all his meetings, which later lead to his downfall over the Watergate scandals. Here’s a great discussion to gain an insight into Nixon's and his White House staff’s views about John Kerry.

Conversation
President Richard Nixon; Chief of Staff, H.R."Bob" Haldeman; Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger.
April 23, 1971

John Kerry delivered his testimony against the Vietnam War on April 22, 1971. The next day, Nixon had several conversations about Kerry and the protests. At around 9:30 a.m., President Nixon met with his chief of staff, H.R. “Bob” Haldeman, and his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger. The topic was Kerry.

President Nixon: Apparently, this fellow, uh, that they put in the front row, is that what you say, the front (unintelligible) the real star...Kerry.

H.R. "Bob" Haldeman: Kerry. He is, he did a hell of a great job on the, uh --

President: He was extremely effective.

Haldeman: he did a superb job on it at Foreign Relations Committee yesterday. A Kennedy-type guy -- he looks like a Kennedy and he, and he talks exactly like a Kennedy.

Kissinger: (Unintelligible).

President: Where did he serve?

Haldeman: He was a Navy lieutenant, jg., on a gunboat, and he used, uh, to run his gunboat up and shoot at, uh, shoot babies out of women's arms...(COMMENT: Per listening to a certified tape copy of this conversation, Bob Haldeman, who was quite the crusty individual to put it mildly, is making a joke based on the tone of his voice)

President: Oh, stop that. People in the Navy don't do things (like that). That's not what service is in Vietnam, as you well know, Henry, (unintelligible).

Kissinger: That's pretty (unintelligible).

Haldeman: He was only over there for, I thinks it's four months or five months.

President: Bob, the Navy didn't have any casualties in Vietnam except in the air.

Haldeman: Well, this guy got a Purple Heart with two clusters and the --

President: (Unintelligible).

Haldeman: -- Navy Star. He's got a hell of a bundle of lettuce up here.
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COMMENTS:

1) I/we know many "very important people", however we have not met anyone that in their twenties caused a high level meeting by a U.S. President, Chief of Staff, and Secretary of State, to discuss this person's speaking and presentation skills!

2) The National Achieve historian could not locate any transcripts where senior Statesman’s and historic political figures rendered highly complementary statements, such as reflected above about Senator Kerry, in regards to George W. Bush or Dick Cheney when they were young men in their twenties.

With President G.W. Bush’s questionable National Guard service record, and Vice President Dick Cheney using five (5) deferments to avoid serving in Vietnam, because “he had other priorities”, per below ($$), one can only imagine the comments, 1/3 of a century ago, this Country’s President and his key White House staff members would have expressed concerning these two fine brave men and true patriots!

($$)Cheney Had "Other Priorities" During Vietnam War

Cheney Had "Other Priorities" During Vietnam War.Vice President Dick Cheney received five deferments during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1966, a period of heightened American commitment in Vietnam. He later dismissed questions about his failure to serve by simply saying, "I had other priorities in the '60s."

Cheney and Bush Campaign Distort Record of Cheney's Deferments. The Washington Post reported in 1991 that Cheney received five deferments, four 2-S student deferments and one under the 3-A classification -- "registrant with a child or children; or registrant deferred by reason of extreme hardship to dependents." In his Senate confirmation hearing, Cheney said he "would have obviously been happy to serve had I been called," which contradicting his earlier statement, "I had other priorities in the '60s than military service." Bush staff members said Cheney received only three deferments, two for school and one for being a new father.



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