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Former traitor John Kerry is set to take over the position of chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. This announcement should send shudders through the thousands who served during the Vietnam War.

For those who are unfamiliar with the past antics of John Kerry, the Vietnam War is a good place to start: Kerry was infamous as the “spokesperson” for the Winter Soldier “Hearings” held in 1971 at a Congressional Hearing in D.C..

Here’s a little snippet of Kerry’s “testimony”:

“They told their stories. At times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, 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 in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.”

“They” were the American military who served with Kerry during his stint in Vietnam. The “stories” emerged from an earlier “investigation” held in Detroit with Kerry present. The aftermath of Kerry’s testimony in D.C. was stunning: an entire generation of military men who served in Vietnam were now branded as murderers of women and children, of gross crimes against not only humanity but animals, and of “ravaging the countryside”.

While most took Kerry at his word that the atrocities had occurred, others investigated, including the military. What they found was that those who told their “stories” had never served in Vietnam, or served in capacities different than what they claimed. According to Makubin Thomas Owens, when Kerry returned from his stint in the war, he wasn’t the fired up anti-Vietnam War vet, it wasn’t until he began involved with the group, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and has his eye on politics, that he became a critic of the war.

John Kerry and the Mystery of his Medals

In an interesting article at the Boston Globe, Jeff Jacoby does a bang up job looking back at quotes given by John Kerry as to whether, during a Vietnam War protest, he threw the medals awarded him for service in Vietnam over a White House Wall. Here are two quotes from Kerry about the same incident involving his “medal” toss against the war:

“In a Nov. 6, 1971, interview with WRC-TV, he recalled that the protesters had decided to “renounce the symbols which this country gives . . . the medals themselves.” When the interviewer asked, “How many did you give back, John?” he answered: “I gave back, I can’t remember, six, seven, eight, nine.” The interviewer noted that Kerry had won the Bronze and Silver Stars and three Purple Hearts. Kerry: “Well, and above that, I gave back my others.”

“In 1984, running for the Senate against a World War II Air Force veteran, he claimed he had refused to do so. “After showing a reporter his medals and ribbons on display in his Back Bay apartment,” The Boston Globe reported on Oct. 15, 1984, Kerry “said he had disagreed with other protest leaders on throwing away medals.” The medals he was seen tossing, Kerry added, were those of a “veteran from Lincoln [Mass.], at his request.”"

Those two quotes are typical of Kerry’s twisting of the truth, and at times, not telling the truth at all, whose medals did Kerry “throw” over the wall? Because looking a photo [see above] of John Kerry at the Winter Soldier Hearings, Kerry seems to be wearing the same medals or ribbons, he supposedly threw over the Whitehouse Wall seven days prior. Which leads us to the infamous “secret” CIA mission Kerry purportedly went on during his time in Vietnam:

Hugh Hewitt, of World Net Daily, wrote about Kerry’s “secret CIA mission in Cambodia”.

Kerry referred to his “secret” work with the CIA during the Vietnam War on three separate occasions: Kerry’s review of the movie, Apocolypse Now, in the Boston Herald, in 1973:

JOHN KERRY:
“On more than one occasion, I like Martin Sheen in “Apocalypse Now,” took my patrol boat into Cambodia. In fact I remember spending Christmas Eve of 1968 five miles across the Cambodian border being shot at by our South Vietnamese allies who were drunk and celebrating Christmas. The absurdity of almost being killed by our own allies in a country in which President Nixon claimed there were no American troops was very real.”

Kerry also mentioned his “secret” mission on the floor of the U.S. Senate, and again, in 1996.

Yet when his accounts of being ordered to ferry the CIA in 1968 on a secret, clandestine mission, a story which, amazingly, surfaced after the movie, Apocolypse Now, hit the theatres with the same plot, Kerry’s biographer, Douglas Brinkley, issued a statement which “clarified” Kerry’s story:

He said: “Kerry went into Cambodian waters three or four times in January and February 1969 on clandestine missions. He had a run dropping off U.S. Navy Seals, Green Berets and CIA guys.” The missions were not armed attacks on Cambodia, said Mr. Brinkley, who did not include the clandestine missions in his wartime biography of Mr. Kerry, “Tour of Duty.”

“He was a ferry master, a drop-off guy, but it was dangerous as hell. Kerry carries a hat he was given by one CIA operative. In a part of his journals which I didn’t use he writes about discussions with CIA guys he was dropping off.”

Yet, to date, there has been no official proof that any such “trips” occurred, nor has any of Kerry’s boat mates stepped forward to back up Kerry’s tale.

Which leads us to an extraordinary encounter with Kerry by Washington Post reporter, Laura Blumenfield, regarding Kerry’s briefcase and Kerry’s “secret CIA hat”:

A close associate hints: There’s a secret compartment in Kerry’s briefcase. He carries the black attache everywhere. Asked about it on several occasions, Kerry brushed it aside. Finally, trapped in an interview, he exhaled and clicked open his case.

“Who told you?” he demanded as he reached inside. “My friends don’t know about this.”

The hat was a little mildewy. The green camouflage was fading, the seams fraying.

“My good luck hat,” Kerry said, happy to see it. “Given to me by a CIA guy as we went in for a special mission in Cambodia.”

Kerry put on the hat, pulling the brim over his forehead. His blue button-down shirt and tie clashed with the camouflage. He pointed his finger and raised his thumb, creating an imaginary gun. He looked silly, yet suddenly his campaign message was clear: Citizen-soldier. Linking patriotism to public service. It wasn’t complex after all; it was Kerry.

He smiled and aimed his finger: “Pow.”

Then there’s John Kerry’s meeting with the North Vietnamese in Paris in 1970 while he was still enlisted in the Navy:

“John and Julia Kerry travel to Paris on a private trip. Kerry meets with Madam Win Thi Binh, the Foreign Minister of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam (PRG) — the political wing of the Vietcong — and with representatives of Hanoi who were in Paris for the peace talks.”

Shortly after meeting with Madam Win Thi Binh, Kerry joined the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Kerry then became a key figure working with Jane Fonda, who was known as “Hanoi Jane”.

Fonda went on two week tour to North Vietnam in 1972. The war was still ongoing but Fonda managed to visits hospitals, schools, and factories, and dropped in for a visit with the American POW’s being held by the North Vietnamese. Fonda stated that North Vietnamese POW’s were being “tortured” in American POW camps. She also lent her voice to radio broadcasts where she denounced American political and military leaders as “war criminals”. Apparently Fonda wasn’t finished with her “opinions” of the war and the American POW’s because after they were released and returned home, Fonda stated they shouldn’t be hailed as heroes, because they were “hypocrites and liars”.

Yet who were the liars? Kerry was running for a Congressional seat after his return from Vietnam. His Winter Soldier testimony has now been proven bogus but the aftermath of Kerry’s charges regarding American troops who served in Vietnam was devastating. His trip to meet with the enemy during war shows a dangerous side, one of recklessness, and of arrogance. Now he’s about to take over as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Which just goes to show, that even “traitors” can rise to the top.

By LBG

Image - John Kerry - Winter Soldier Testimony