John Kerry and the Mystical War Against Communism

I’ve stood up and fought against Richard Nixon’s war in Vietnam. I stood up and fought against Ronald Reagan’s illegal war in Central America. - John Kerry

President Kennedy was the third President to affirm our basic policy in Vietnam, but the first to expand it to a new, heightened level of commitment. He increased the number of U.S. military combat advisors in South Vietnam to 16,000. The Kennedy administration also committed a tragic blunder that forever changed the equation in Vietnam. On November 1, 1963, a coup encouraged and supported by the Kennedy administration led to the assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. By participating in the removal of South Vietnam’s President, Kennedy had made the United States directly responsible for the fate of South Vietnam. What had been Vietnam’s war became America’s war. President Johnson escalated the American role to the level at which President Nixon found it. Following overwhelming Congressional approval of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which ratified his actions, Johnson began sustained bombing of North Vietnam, raised U.S. troop levels to 200,000 by the end of 1965, and 540,000 by the end of 1968. - History of U.S. Involvement in Vietnam

A Ho Chi Minh City museum that honors Vietnam war protesters features a photograph of Sen. John Kerry being greeted by the general secretary of the Communist Party, Comrade Do Muoi. - World Net Daily

In our opinion, and from our experience, there is nothing in South Vietnam, nothing which could happen that realistically threatens the United States of America. And to attempt to justify the loss of one American life in Vietnam, Cambodia, or Laos by linking such loss to the preservation of freedom, which those misfits supposedly abuse, is to us the height of criminal hypocrisy, and it is that kind of hypocrisy which we feel has torn this country apart. - John Kerry

Are there extenuating circumstances? Is there a reason for our being in Vietnam? “To attempt to justify the loss of one American life in Vietnam, Cambodia, or Laos by linking such loss to the preservation of freedom … is … the height of criminal hypocrisy, and it is that kind of hypocrisy which we feel has torn this country apart.” It is then, we reason retrospectively, not alone an act of hypocrisy that caused the joint chiefs of staff and the heads of the civilian departments engaged in strategic calculations to make the recommendations they made over the past ten years, to three Presidents of the United States: it was not merely hypocrisy, but criminal hypocrisy. The nature of that hypocrisy? “All,” Mr. Kerry sums up, “that we were told about the mystical war against Communism.” - William F. Buckley Jr.

The soldier went to Vietnam to defend the country from aggressive communism in the tradition of World War II. But the soldier learned he was not fighting communism. Communism was not a threat to our country and the war was not moral. - John Kerry

It doesn’t matter that the iconic president bearing Mr. Kerry’s initials (as a young man, Mr. Kerry dated Jackie Kennedy’s half-sister, Janet Auchincloss) sent the U.S. into Vietnam on a flying carpet of moral certainty. Or that the political commitment to repulse communism in Vietnam, a commitment that troubled Mr. Kerry as he departed in 1968 for heroic service in the war and revulsed him when he left, was set by Lyndon Baines Johnson. Primary Democrats, for reasons that await the tools of psychoanalysis, believe Vietnam was “Nixon’s war.” After winning Iowa’s caucuses, Mr. Kerry volunteered, “I stood up and fought against Richard Nixon’s war in Vietnam.” The Republican Nixon’s too-ardent anticommunism, they came to believe, was the provenance for Ronald Reagan’s wrongful spending on the communist “threat.” - Daniel Henninger

Sen. John Kerry wants to be president of the United States so he can promote a brand of multi-nationalism as the solution to the world’s problems. In fact, his views on that subject haven’t changed that much since he came back from Vietnam in 1970, urging the United Nations take over command of the U.S. military forces. In April 1985, Kerry, along with Sen. Tom Harkin, ventured to Nicaragua to meet with President Daniel Ortega, a Marxist revolutionary who idolized Fidel Castro and received aid from the Soviet Union. - Joseph Farah

The Cold War was reaching its final stages when Kerry entered the Senate in 1985. Reagan had been re-elected in a thunderous landslide in November of 1984 and was using his administration to help the contra armies destabilize the Sandinista government of Nicaragua as part of a global strategy to give the tottering communist empire a final shove. Reagan had carried Massachusetts that fall, but the contra cause was unpopular in the state. House Speaker Thomas “Tip” O’Neill Jr., a Democrat from Cambridge, feared the United States would be drawn into another Vietnam in the jungles of Central America, and he worked with Congressman Edward Boland, an old Democratic pal from Springfield, to attach a series of “Boland amendments” to appropriation bills, banning or limiting US aid to the contras. At first, Kerry’s audacity cost him. Within weeks of taking office in 1985, he was off to Nicaragua, accompanied by reporters on a 36-hour, self-appointed fact-finding mission with another freshman, Democratic Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa. Congressional Democrats had accused the White House of exaggerating the communist threat posed by the Sandinista regime. So the two senators were publicly castigated when — just days after meeting with Daniel Ortega and other leaders of the regime — the Sandinistas climbed aboard a plane to Moscow to cement their Soviet ties. - John Aloysius Farrell

John Kerry�s record of service in our military is honorable. But his long record in the Senate is one of advocating policies that would weaken our national security. In 1972, when John Kerry first campaigned for Congress, he made a commitment to vote against military appropriations. After he was elected, he went one step further, actively introducing legislation to reduce funding for defense and intelligence. In addition to his opposition to defense funding, John Kerry opposed the policies that led to victory in the Cold War. In 1984 he called for a freeze on testing, production and deployment of nuclear warheads, missiles, and other delivery systems. In 1985, he introduced a Comprehensive Nuclear Freeze Bill, and sponsored two amendments to freeze SDI-related nuclear development. - Ed Gillespie

The John Kerry Campaign Website has a Press Release, Statement from Senior Advisor Michael Meehan on the RNC�s Attacks of John Kerry. It answers many of the charges made above by proudly proclaiming that they are all true.

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Kerry served 4 months in 'Nam, he was injured three times (the first being in his first 24 hours in Vietnam). He WILL NOT release the details of his injuries for the public to see (I am speculating that he stubbed his toe). Additionally, he eventually got out of Vietnam because he wanted to run for office and a senator gave him a "early out". He also stated that we should abandon Vietnam and leave our POWs behind. --> For these FACTS check out your PBS station and look for the Dick Cavett Show with a debate between Kerry and O'Neil. It will disgust you... or, maybe open your eyes to who Kerry really is and who he is not (American). Look at his voting issues, all of them designed to cripple America in some regard.
He states that he is for the average American (along with fabricating every single truth), but who is more American? One who fights to preserve the American way or one who lives off the welfare system? You decide.... He is a traitor to his fellow servicemen and to the United States of America.

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