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John Kerry’s Hypocritical
Global Test
By Frank Salvato |
October
12, 2004
- I haven’t usually disagreed with the issues
President Bush has presented this election cycle. Sure, I’m not happy with
the accelerated spending spree that has happened on his watch but then I am
insightful enough to know that Congress has quite a bit to do with allowing
that to happen. Blaming the president because it’s easy is to be thinking
with a simplistic mind. But there is one thing I believe the president is
dead wrong on and that’s John Kerry flip-flopping on the Iraq war. He didn’t
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t believe that John Kerry has a genuine bone in
his body. He is an opportunist whose political positions shift with the
opinion polls. He caters his beliefs to his audience. In fact, I think he
could speak to a crowd in Vermont and claim that his favorite drink is maple
syrup, then turn around claim to be a diabetic while speaking to the
American Diabetes Association. He is the quintessential glad-hander,
pandering for your vote. If he were a dog he probably spend most of his day
on his back trying to be cute, begging for affection.
That being said I do agree with President Bush that Kerry is a flip-flopper,
but not on the issue of military action in Iraq. In fact, his record proves
he has never flip-flopped when it comes to any military action to which the
United States has been committed. It is clear that he has always held the
same position, the anti-war position.
For Kerry supporters to claim he is a war hero is as ridiculous as saying
Bill Clinton is a faithful husband. It simply isn’t so. Kerry volunteered as
a last resort to being drafted only after his request for a deferment was
denied. He took three scratches, three Purple Hearts, gathered some
questionable decorations for valor and then got out of Vietnam so fast he
didn’t even risk getting malaria.
It
was upon his return from Vietnam that we got to see John Kerry’s only
political conviction, the anti-war stance. He and some other pretend
soldiers joined Vietnam Veterans Against the War and held the Winter Soldier
investigation. They were the plaintiffs, the defendants, the judge and jury.
According to them, America was guilty of war crimes and not even the truth
was going to stop Kerry from testifying to that delusion in front of
Congress. He pontificated and offered up lies denigrating his fellow
soldiers. He even went a step further, meeting with the enemy in Paris while
still a commissioned officer in the Naval Reserves. This is clearly illegal
by the rules of the military and the US Constitution. He was building his
political libido and cultivating an arrogance that would place him in
Hyannisport, if only in his mind.
Since then it is easy to see that John Kerry has always been anti-war. Sure,
he may have voted to give the president the authority to use forces but as
he keeps insisting, it was only the authority to use force. As long as the
vote to go to war in Iraq was going to be overwhelming why not vote yes and
then smack semantic when it comes time to be responsible for your actions,
should the going get tough – or if you run for office on the anti-war
agenda?
John Kerry was anti-military action when Communism was being spread in South
America. He sympathized and even met with Daniel Ortega, leader of the
Sandinistas, a Soviet-backed Marxist-Leninist junta that had taken power
shortly before Ronald Reagan was elected. There he accused the US of
"funding terrorism.”
John Kerry voted against the Gulf War even though Saddam Hussein had invaded
another country, even though Hussein had visions of invading Saudi Arabia
and monopolizing the Middle Eastern oil supply. He voted against the Gulf
War even though the UN supported it and a coalition had been assembled which
included France and Germany. He wouldn’t go to war even when the world
agreed, endorsed, supported and demanded it.
The pundits say John Kerry is courting the anti-war vote. The truth of the
matter is John Kerry has a solid record of being anti-war. He was dishonest
when he was portraying himself as a hawk and that’s why it’s so easy for him
to defend his anti-war vote. Add to this the fact that he is on record as a
UN acquiescent globalist and it is clear that having John Kerry as Commander
in Chief would be devastating for the United States.
No, John Kerry isn’t a flip-flopper on the anti-war issue. His deception is
that he portrays himself as a pro-security and pro-America politician. He is
neither.
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