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Calling Bullshit "Nuance" Doesn't Make It Stink Any Less

On the eve of a major Senate vote on the issue of aid, John Kerry and Tom Harkin jetted off to Managua for a weekend of intensive talks with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. The pair departed after holding a press conference to announce a study which listed dozens of supposed lies that the Reagan administration had told Congress and 15 allegations of law breaking (the study was done by the hard-left Institute for Policy Studies). Kerry and Harkin returned with a three page "peace proposal" given to them by Ortega.

Do da name Madam Binh ring any bells? Yet, the Ortega et al were communist backed, receiving $26 million from the USSR just a week after this meeting, so there is a lack of flip/flop on Johnny Red's part...

But Kerry got exactly what he wanted from the trip: A front page profile in the Style section of the Washington Post days after his return. Myra MacPherson, the Post reporter, apparently accompanied the dynamic duo, and provides some tremendous quotes: "Look at it," Kerry said as their plane touched down... "It reminds me so much of Vietnam..."

*pause for extensive retching*

"'If you look back at the Gulf of Tonkin resolution,' Kerry said, 'if you look back at the troops that were in Cambodia, the history of the body count, and the misinterpretation of the history of Vietnam itself, and look at how we are interpreting the struggle in Central America and examine the CIA involvement, the mining of the harbors, the effort to fund the contras, there is a direct and unavoidable parallel between these two periods of our history.'"

Dayum! he's right -- Communists invade small country with an eye to taking over the region and thereby threatening America's independence. Oh, yeah and slaughtering lots and lots of indigenous personnel.

Kerry responded, 'I believe Nicaragua understands beyond any doubt the United States will never tolerate a Soviet or Cuban base here. But we've got to create a climate of trust. Look, let's try it! It's better than killing people. Then if it doesn't work there will be a lot of congressmen and senators who will feel betrayed and won't have much hesitation about making a change. I see an enormous haughtiness in the United States trying to tell them what to do. Our economic squeeze on them is very sad. The whole population is suffering."

Just like his recommendations that we "rescue" the 3,000 or so South Vietnamese people whom the Communists might "not like." Forgetting completely the Boat People and the 3 million killed by the Viet Cong after we left. "Let's try it," he says. How could one expect him not to say, "Let's just try talking things over with those guys who are kidnapping people and hacking their heads off." Ok, Johnny Negotiator -- you first! You may well be mistaking our current foes for the incredibly more civilized Communists. See if you can keep a calm head on your shoulders while 'talking it over' with our current enemy.

Then-secretary of State George Shultz was outraged. "It's presumably not lawful for citizens to appoint themselves as negotiators for the United States," Shultz declared. "Members of Congress have every right to travel to Nicaragua to review the situation, but we cannot have a successful policy when they take trips or write 'Dear Commandante' letters with the aim of negotiating as self-appointed emissaries to the communist regime." Shultz called for the censure of the two senators.

There's that same interesting phenomenon -- Johnny Clandestine breaks the same damn law a-gain, which is pointed out by the dam Secy of State. What happens? Nuttin, honey. Who's bitch is he?

1. Jimmy Carter did the same type thing…

   http://sandwichshop.blogspot.com/2004/09/thoughts-on-jimmy-carter-several.html

   Posted by  on  09/20/04  at  12:41 PM

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