Feder: Watch Out for Kerry
"Is there anything about the war-hero/VC symp, "Irish"-Jewish-Brahmin, left-wing moderate, pro-abortion Catholic, patrician-tribune-of-the-people that's real?" asks columnist Don Feder about John Kerry.
His answer: Yes, there's "a stark consistency" that runs through Kerry's career: "He's an opportunistic back-stabber who never met a commie he didn't like. He also has chutzpah to spare."
Writing in the Feb. 2, 2004, FrontPageMagazine.com ("Kerry: War Zero"), Feder notes that he's a resident of Massachusetts, who has kept a close eye on Kerry's career "with a mixture of fascination, revulsion and amusement."
In an unremitting assault on the real record of John Kerry, as opposed to the one Kerry would like you to think it is, Feder lays out the facts on the junior senator from Massachusetts, and it's not a pretty portrait.
"... nothing about Kerry is what it seems. He's Irish, right? Well, actually, he's part Jewish. (His paternal grandparents were Kohn, before they goy-icized their name.)"
He's a war hero who became an anti-war activist when it looked politically advantageous to turn on his country and slander his fellow Vietnam vets.
Claiming to have a common touch, he's really a snooty Boston Brahmin with an aristocratic ancestry on his mother's side who improved his modest financial standing by marrying two enormously rich women, one of whom he dumped when she was suffering from depression, after she bore him two kids.
This graduate of uppity St. Paul's and Yale – a member of the ultra-secret and super-exclusive Skull and Bones society, now married to a woman worth over half a billion dollars – has the gall to talk about this nation belonging "not to the privileged few, but to all Americans."
He claims to be a "moderate" Democrat in the face of a voting record far left of either Ted Kennedy or Dennis "The Red" Kucinich. Kennedy's lifetime congressional rating from the if-it-moves-tax-it Americans for Democratic Action is 88 percent – compared to 93 percent for Kerry. Kucinich's lifetime score from the American Conservative Union is 15 percent. Kerry's is 6 percent.
In the late '60s, Kerry went to Vietnam as a naval Lt. j.g. "probably to round out a resume for the political future he was planning even then." He was awarded medals which he later claimed to have tossed over the White House fence as part of an anti-war demonstration. It turned out that the medals weren't his – those he kept to display to anyone who'll look at them.
One of Kerry’s medals was for killing an enemy soldier who supposedly was armed with a rocket launcher. But, says Feder, "evidence suggests the fearsome foe was wounded at the time and may have been shot in the back. Perhaps this was a dress rehearsal for young Benedict's eventual betrayal of the guys he fought with."
Believing there was a political advantage in opposing the war on arriving home in Massachusetts, Kerry enlisted in Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and worked side-by-side with such VC-lovers as Hanoi Jane Fonda and Ramsey Clark in the so-called Winter Soldier Investigation, and paraded around with scruffy Marxists carrying Viet Cong flags and signs with slogans praising Ho Chi Minh, Kim Il Sung and Fidel Castro.
But that was just the beginning. Kerry went on to slander his former comrades-in-arms as a bunch of degenerate, mutilating baby-killers. "The man who's now running on his war record – and mentions his medals in every other breath – told a Senate hearing that Americans then bleeding and dying in the rice paddies were the moral equivalent of the Waffen-S.S."
Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 23, 1971, Kerry charged that American soldiers had "raped, cut off ears, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks and generally ravaged the countryside of Vietnam."
Gen. George S. Patton (namesake of the World War II general) – who led troops into combat in Vietnam – said Kerry "gave aid and comfort to the enemy."
He was kinder to the murderous Viet Cong. They were simply agrarian reformers. Apparently never having heard of North Vietnamese regulars, Soviet aid or the Ho Chi Minh Trail, Kerry insisted that the conflict was a "war of the people" fought by indigenous peasant reformers. He demanded not only an American withdrawal but also the cut-off of all aid to Saigon. If the wicked South Vietnamese puppet state fell, at most 2,000 to 3,000 of its lackeys might face recrimination, Kerry assured us.
But after the fall of Saigon, Feder recalls, an estimated 700,000 people went through communist re-education camps and many never came out. Moreover, more than a million boat people fled Kerry's indigenous peasant reformers. Says Feder, "The fall of South Vietnam led to the fall of Laos and Cambodia – and the genocide of the killing fields. And Kerry is actually trying to sell this foreign-policy expertise as a presidential credential."
As a senator, he fought against American aid to the government of El Salvador during the communist insurgency of the 1980s. He also opposed support for the freedom-fighting Nicaraguan Contras. He described the Salvadoran military as "some of the most blood-drenched men on the planet."
He’s never known to have uttered a word of criticism about Cuban intervention in the Central American conflicts or spoken harshly of Soviet imperialism. President Reagan's rescue mission to Grenada, he claimed, was "a bully's show of force against a weak, third-world nation," according to the likely Democratic nominee.
He opposed the MX missile, B-1 Bomber and a missile defense system. Had the war hero prevailed, the Kremblin would still be in business and opening branch offices all over the world.
In 1991, he voted against the first Gulf War. (Body bags would be coming in by the thousands, the military expert predicted.)
Kerry voted to authorize the president to use military force to rid humanity of Saddam Hussein. Now he says he was only voting to give Bush the authority to spend the next decade in a futile quest for the U.N.'s approval.
Kerry has even found time to bestow understanding on Colombia's drug-dealing FARC terrorist butchers. A year ago, in a speech in Boston, Kerry said Colombia's narcotics-fueled insurgency "seems to be a renewal of a kind of chaos fueled partly by guerrillas who have legitimate complaints and the combination of drugs and war and the drug lord." Just another example of indigenous peasant reformers asserting their rights.
Feder concludes: "John Forbes Kerry/Kohn is a man whose time came and went – roughly 30 years ago. He could be elected president of Hollywood, president of the Ivy League, president of the National Council of Churches, president of the Dixie Chicks or president of CNN. But president of the United States? Only if the American people have a complete and total memory failure – if the nation has collective amnesia for the next nine months." |
