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Politics : John Kerrys Crimes & Lies -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: HairBall who wrote (1472)11/9/2004 6:58:06 PM
From: Captain Jack  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1905
 
'I got my kills ... I just love my job'
LONDON TELEGRAPH

Toby Harnden in Fallujah observes American soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division taskforce avenging their fallen comrades as battle begins

After seven months in Iraq's Sunni triangle, for many American soldiers the opportunity to avenge dead friends by taking a life was a moment of sheer exhilaration.

As they approached their "holding position", from where hours later they would advance into the city, they picked off insurgents on the rooftops and in windows.

"I got myself a real juicy target," shouted Sgt James Anyett, peering through the thermal sight of a Long Range Acquisition System (LRAS) mounted on one of Phantom's Humvees.

"Prepare to copy that 89089226. Direction 202 degrees. Range 950 metres. I got five motherf****** in a building with weapons."

Capt Kirk Mayfield, commander of the Phantoms, called for fire from his task force's mortar team. But Sgt Anyett didn't want to wait. "Dude, give me the sniper rifle. I can take them out - I'm from Alabama."

Two minutes tick by. "They're moving deep," shouted Sgt Anyett with disappointment. A dozen loud booms rattle the sky and smoke rose as mortars rained down on the co-ordinates the sergeant had given.

"Yeah," he yelled. "Battle Damage Assessment - nothing. Building's gone. I got my kills, I'm coming down. I just love my job."

Phantom Troop had rolled out of Camp Fallujah, the main US military base, shortly before 4am. All morning they took fire from the Al-Askari district in Fallujah's north-east, their target for the invasion proper.

The insurgents, not understanding the capabilities of the LRAS, crept along rooftops and poked their heads out of windows. Even when they were more than a mile away, the soldiers of Phantom Troop had their eyes on them.

Lt Jack Farley, a US Marines officer, sauntered over to compare notes with the Phantoms. "You guys get to do all the fun stuff," he said. "It's like a video game. We've taken small arms fire here all day. It just sounds like popcorn going off."

Another marine stepped forward and began to fire an M4 rifle at the city. "He's a reservist for the San Diego police. He wants a piece of the action, too".

A Phantom Abrams tank moved up the road running along the high ground. Its barrel, stencilled with the words "Ali Baba under 3 Thieves" swivelled towards the city and then fired a 120mm round at a house where two men with AK-47s had been pinpointed. "Ain't nobody moving now," shouted a soldier as the dust cleared. "He rocked that guy's world."

One of Phantom's sniper teams laid down fire into the city with a Barrett .50 calibre rifle and a Remington 700. A suspected truck bomb was riddled with bullets, the crack of the Barrett echoing through the mainly deserted section of the city. The insurgents fired 60mm mortars back, one of them wounding a soldier.

There were 25mm rounds from Phantom's Bradley fighting vehicles, barrages from Paladin howitzers back at Camp Fallujah and bursts of fire from .50 calibre machineguns. One by one, the howitzers used by the insurgents were destroyed.

"Everybody's curious," grinned Sgt Anyett as he waited for a sniper with a Russian-made Dragonov to show his face one last, fatal time. A bullet zinged by.

Dusk fell and 7pm, "A hour", the appointed hour to move into the city, approached. The soldiers of Phantom all reflected.

"Given the choice, I would never have wanted to fire a gun," said Cpl Chris Merrell, 21, manning a machinegun mounted on a Humvee. "But it didn't work out that way. I'd like a thousand boring missions rather than one interesting one."

On his wrist was a black bracelet bearing the name of a sergeant from Phantom Troop. "This is a buddy of mine that died," he said. "Pretty much everyone in the unit has one."

One fear playing on the mind of the task force was that of "friendly fire", also known as "blue on blue".

"Any urban fight is confusing," Lt Col Newell, the force's commander, told his troops before the battle. "The biggest threat out there is not them, but us."

His officers said that the plan to invade Fallujah involved months of detailed planning and elaborate "feints" designed to draw the insurgents out into the open and fool them into thinking the offensive would come from another side of the city.

"They're probably thinking that we'll come in from the east," said Capt Natalie Friel, an intelligence officer with task force, before the battle. But the actual plan involves penetrating the city from the north and sweeping south.

"I don't think they know what's coming. They have no idea of the magnitude," she said. "But their defences are pretty circular. They're prepared for any kind of direction. They've got strong points on all four corners of the city."

The aim was to push the insurgents south, killing as many as possible, before swinging west. They would then be driven into the Euphrates.

• Tony Blair's problems over Iraq deepened still further last night when one of his most respected former advisers suggested the entire conflict had been illegal.

Sir Stephen Wall, who was head of the European Secretariat in the Cabinet Office, said: "We allowed our judgment of the dire consequences of inaction to allow us to depart from the rule of law."



To: HairBall who wrote (1472)11/10/2004 10:30:47 PM
From: Captain Jack  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1905
 
Indict John Kerry for Treason, Mr. Attorney General!
Written by Doc Farmer
Wednesday, November 10, 2004

The election is finally over. For those of us who have had to suffer through the last 18 months of debates, primaries, polls, pundits, and attack ads, it is a blessed relief. Now, perhaps, politicians will actually start to do their jobs instead of yak-yak-yakking about how terrible (fill in the blank) is and how they'd do a much better job.

Thankfully, President Bush won re-election. I say thankfully because 1) I strongly supported his candidacy and 2) I did not want a traitor in the White House. Again. America has four more years of strong, compassionate leadership to look forward to, and I for one am most grateful.

However, this election brought to light some rather disturbing facts about a certain Massachusetts senator, and I don't mean the one who carries a single set of water wings in his overhead visor, either. Many of us found, to our disbelief, that we had someone in Congress who was, and is, a criminal. Not just your average, run of the mill, let's-tax-the-snot-out-of-the-middle-class-so-I-can-get-a-building-named-after-me criminal, either.

A Traitor

A man--more a slug in an expensive suit with a $400 haircut, really--who sold out his nation WHILE WEARING ITS UNIFORM. Someone who lied about his ''heroism'' in order to get three purple hearts and make a mad dash out of harm's way, leaving his fellow soldiers behind. Someone who, upon his return, sullied the name of every man and woman who served in Vietnam. Someone who, with a straight face, lied under oath to Congress about atrocities he never witnessed. Someone who actually claimed to have committed war crimes. Someone who, while still in the Navy reserves, MET WITH THE ENEMY. In Paris. At least twice.

John Forbes Kerry. AKA Jean François Kerrée, The Poodle, Hanoi John, sKerry, The Gigolo, and, if you hang around some veteran's discussion areas, terminology a bit too ''intense'' to be mentioned in a family publication.

A couple of months ago, Front Page Magazine, an online publication, ran an article entitled ''John Kerry, Criminal'' which outlined the evidence regarding the senator's violations of the law. To wit, 10 USC 904, part of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and 18 USC 953, also known as the Logan Act. The authors of the original article, Henry Mark Holzer and Erika Holzer, went into quite extensive detail as to the law and its structure, the evidence against Kerry, legal precedents, and other information that could be used in a formal indictment.

The Holzers' article was quite good. It was also, as my critique of the article noted, completely ignored by the mainstream press. There was no call for an investigation. Indeed, as the folks at Swift Boat Veterans for Truth found out, it was they who were vilified for daring to bring this issue to the fore--despite the fact that Kerry himself ran his campaign on his so-called ''war hero'' status.

However, I think we all understood that there would be no investigation during the campaign. It would be ''bad form'' and look as though President Bush were unjustly attacking his opponent for mere political gain. Indeed, the news media constantly called on President Bush to condemn the SwiftVets and their ads. Fortunately, Dubya did not fall for this trap, for had he spoken out directly against those particular ads, he would have been in violation of the Campaign Finance Reform law, and the media would then attack him for that. Not that they ever bothered to mention Kerry's violations of that same law, of course.

Now we find out, after the election of course, that Kerry's own diary states that he met with ''Vietnamese terrorists'' all those years ago. Terrorists. Hmmmm. Aren't we currently at war with terrorists? If Kerry consorted with terrorists in the past, what's to say he wouldn't do so again? Somebody please subpoena that diary before it becomes kindling for the fireplace in one of those many mansions that Kerry has.

However, the election is now over. Kerry lost. America won. The politics are now over. It's time for America to win something more important than an election.

Justice

There is ample evidence, in the aforementioned article, for the attorney general, John Ashcroft, to file an indictment in any federal court of his choosing, against Senator Kerry for the crimes listed. This indictment should be filed before Mr. Ashcroft's resignation from the Department of Justice becomes effective. There is also ample evidence for the Department of Justice to file another set of charges, to wit:

* Perjury (in lying to the Congressional Hearing in 1971)
* Fraud (in arranging to solicit false information during the ''Winter Soldier'' investigation)
* Falsifying Military Documents (for his ''creative'' after-action reports)
* War Crimes (for his public admission of same)
* Complicity in the extended incarceration of American Prisoners of War
* Complicity in the Deaths of American Prisoners of War
* Complicity in the Deaths of over One Million South Vietnamese
* Complicity in the Deaths of over Two Million Cambodians
* Unauthorized Contact/Meetings with the Enemy in a Time of War
* Aid and Comfort to the Enemy in a Time of War
* Treason

Mr. Ashcroft, America has waited for over 33 years for justice to be done. We've waited long enough. I formally call upon you, in your capacity as Attorney General of the United States, to accept this information and related evidentiary materials, and to move with all deliberate speed to draft an indictment on these charges against Senator Kerry. If you are unwilling to draft the document yourself, I'm sure there are plenty of (blasted) lawyers out there who are up to the challenge. The indictment would then permit the Department of Justice to unseal Mr. Kerry's military records, as well as the classified FBI files (some 14 boxes full, if the information I've read is correct) to verify just exactly what Kerry said to Madame Binh and the ''peace'' negotiators in Paris all those years ago.

I also call upon the ''Swift Boat Veterans for Truth'' to file, in civil court, a class-action lawsuit against John Forbes Kerry for libel, slander, and defamation of character, for his statements to Congress in 1971 as well as his anti-war medal/ribbon throwing acts. I also ask those Vietnam veterans who were prisoners of war on or after 22 April 1971 to join in this action and demand reparations for your incarceration, which was extended by John Kerry's perjurous testimony. His lies provided aid and comfort to your jailers, your torturers, and prolonged the war as well as your suffering. If I were you, gentlemen, I'd find a good (blasted) lawyer to work pro bono publico, and stick Kerry for about $500 million. That'll kick in to Teh-RAY-Sah's pin money pretty deep, I'd wager.

I further call upon any members of the Senate with an iota of courage and honor to file a motion to have John Forbes Kerry expelled from the body of Congress, with a loss of all benefits and pensions, under Article XIV, Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States of America. You have within your midst one who is not worthy of your august body. I'm reasonably well informed that you do not need to wait for a conviction in court in order to act; the evidence available now would be sufficient.

Mr. Ashcroft, I know that you are probably unwilling to act on this request, because of political reasons as well as your impending retirement. Well, sir, with all due respect, that's not good enough. Political influences have prevented justice from being done for over three decades. When will those political influences end? Or is there, indeed, one law for the ruled and one law for the rulers? President Bush has been given a mandate. The Executive and Legislative branches of government are now firmly in your grasp. Your political opponents no longer hold sway. To be brutally blunt, it's time to stop pussyfooting around and kick some traitor tail.

Mr. Ashcroft, if you do not, then you will in fact be in violation of the law. I'm no legal eagle, but I think it's called obstruction of justice. The British have another name for it--Perverting the Course of Justice, they call it--and I'm sure there's probably something similar on our books as well. By failing to act, you will let a criminal get away with his crimes. Last I checked, that's not something the attorney general is supposed to do.

Sir, I would advise celerity in this matter. You have, after all, only four years before the next election. If he isn't charged, tried, and convicted by then, and sentence isn't carried out in a prompt manner, then you'll take the risk of the lib/dem/soc/commies returning to the Oval Office. I'm quite sure that they would be more than willing to provide a full pardon to Mr. Kerry, too. After the check cleared, that is.

One more thing. Last I checked, Treason is a capital crime. Although I may be wrong about this, I believe that hanging is the preferred method of execution for traitors. If, by the grace of God, the government actually does prosecute John Forbes Kerry for his crimes and he is found guilty, may I suggest the next attorney general invite two people to stand before the scaffold as witnesses: Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden.

And when the lever is pulled, and that son of a b!tch twists in the wind, please convey a message to Fonda and Hayden for me. It's very short, so I'm sure you'll remember it. Just whisper it into their ears: ''You're next.''

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To read ''John Kerry, Criminal'' by Henry Mark Holzer and Erika Holzer, please click here:
frontpagemag.com

For Doc Farmer's critique of the above article, please click here:
chronwatch.com

If you want to join in with over 189,000 other folks to sign a petition demanding action against John Kerry, go to patriotpetitions.us

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About the Writer: Doc Farmer is a writer and humorist who is also a moderator on ChronWatch's Forum. He formerly lived in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, but now resides in the Midwest. Doc receives e-mail at docfarmer9999@yahoo.co.uk.

This Article Was First Published In ChronWatch At: chronwatch.com