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[Tom Poole]

[Beatrice1000]

[Mother]

CWV wrote:

[Beatrice1000]

[baldeagle]

[baldeagle]

Beatrice 1000, thanks for the original picture without the commentary!

I was struck by the coincide of the timing of the offer from the recalcitrant Sunnis and the visit by Kerry, especially considering that was the offer he brought back from Paris in 71. That seems to be his "Modus Operandi" and sole solution to ending any war. "Just withdraw" and await the consequences.
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[minnie presley]

just reading albuquerque jounal reporting kerry meeting with syrian president, was promised that they would do everything they can to stop terrorists, and clueless beleived them, why is he meeting with them while they are supporting terrorists to go to iraq and kill our troops,how much lower can he stoop, I pray that the troops snub him, how dare he, please tell me we are still on track, to have this piece of garbage thrown out of the senate

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Beatrice 1000 wrote:

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God bless each & every one of you on this site who supported the Swift Vets and POWs for truth. Without your generous gifts of time & money our troops might be placed in the uncomfortable position of having to salute traitor Kerry.

CWV
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[Mother]

CWV wrote:

[Tom Poole]

Thanks baldeagl, for the link. Their photo was bigger but the flag remained unreadable.

And Beatrice1000, regarding your four photos, I continue to notice the trend. Starting from the first one and moving down,






Seems to be a trend to me anyway.
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Yes, God Bless everyone who helped in keeping Kerry out of the White House. Also, God Bless all those who served, now serving and those about to serve..


My deepest appreciation goes out to all of them.



Now, let's take a look at the things Kerry did while being in the Senate..
There are four major stories that the media has given Kerry a BIG pass on...

While screaming about Bush thinking in the school room for, what, 6,7 minutes.. Where was Kerry?

Hypocrite Kerry 'Couldn't Think' for 40 Minutes on 9/11
www.newsmax.com ^ | Friday, Aug. 6, 2004

Friday, Aug. 6, 2004 Hypocrite Kerry 'Couldn't Think' for 40 Minutes on 9/11

John Kerry is getting his comeuppance for his snotty comments about President Bush's actions on 9/11.

Here's what the Massachusetts Democrat said July 8 when Larry King asked where he was on 9/11, according to CNN's own transcript:

'Nobody Could Think'

"I was in the Capitol. We'd just had a meeting - we'd just come into a leadership meeting in Tom Daschle's office, looking out at the Capitol. And as I came in, Barbara Boxer and Harry Reid were standing there, and we watched the second plane come in to the building. And we shortly thereafter sat down at the table and then we just realized nobody could think, and then boom, right behind us, we saw the cloud of explosion at the Pentagon. And then word came from the White House, they were evacuating, and we were to evacuate, and so we immediately began the evacuation."

How appropriate that Kerry lumps himself in with fellow left-wing non-thinkers such as Boxer, Daschle and Reid.

Thanks to the several readers today who sent us this fascinating bit from Blog for Bush: "the second plane hit the World Trade Center at 9:03 a.m., and the plane hit the Pentagon at 9:43 a.m. By Kerry's own words, he and his fellow senators sat there for forty minutes, realizing 'nobody could think.'"

And here's what former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani told the New York Post about Kerry's latest display of insolence:

"John Kerry must be frustrated in his campaign if he is armchair-quarterbacking based on cues from Michael Moore.

"John Kerry is an indecisive candidate [with] an inconsistent position on the War on Terror, who voted against funding for our troops and who cannot give a clear answer on his position concerning the decision to remove Saddam Hussein."
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What was one of the missed opportunities as far as the 9-11 hi-jackers went?

What Did John Kerry Know and When Did He Know It?

March 21, 2004
by Joe Mariani

SEN. John Kerry boasts how he “sounded the alarm on terrorism years before 9/ 11,” referring to his 1997 book “The New War.” Too bad he didn’t blast it when it really counted - four months before the hijackings, when he was hand-delivered evidence of serious security breaches at Logan International Airport, with specific warnings that terrorists could exploit them.

Presidential hopeful John Kerry has more guts than most people gave him credit for, after all. It takes unbelievable audacity to attack President Bush for "stonewalling" the 9/11 terrorist attack investigation, when Kerry was personally warned by an FAA agent about the possibility of a terrorist hijacking at Boston's Logan International Airport only months before... and did nothing.

In a letter to Senator John Kerry on 7 May 2001, retired FAA Special Agent Brian Sullivan wrote that the FAA needed to change its focus from hijackings for hostages (the usual purpose until 9/11) to encompass the possibility of terrorists taking over airliners for other, more deadly purposes. "While the FAA has focused on screening for handguns, new threats have emerged, such as chemical and biological weapons," Sullivan wrote. "Do you really think a screener could detect a bottle of liquid explosive, a small battery and a detonator in your carry-on baggage?" Sullivan continued, "And with the concept of jihad, do you think it would be difficult for a determined terrorist to get on a plane and destroy himself and all other passengers? The answers to these questions are obvious."

The night before, a local tv station had broadcast a report concerning security vulnerabilities at Logan Airport featuring Sullivan and another former FAA Special Agent named Steve Elson. The two had waltzed in and out through airport security multiple times with a variety of weapons and gadgets. Many times, their bags weren't even opened, even when "suspicious items" were inside. Agent Sullivan sent Kerry a video of the report following his letter. In a chilling prophecy, he encouraged the Senator to "[t]hink what the result would be of a coordinated attack which took down several domestic flights on the same day." In the last week of July, Kerry's office finally sent Sullivan a reply saying that the video had been forwarded to the Department of Transportation. Less than two months later, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 were hijacked after taking off from the same Logan International Airport and flown into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in NYC, killing thousands.

Was this the famous "alarm" John Kerry claims to have "sounded... on terrorism years before 9/11" in his television commercials -- sending a video to the DoT mere months beforehand? Anyone with money for postage could have done as much. Isn't it possible that a Senator with a direct warning from a former FAA agent could -- and should -- have done much more? While it's true that few people would immediately leap into action on a warning alone, most people lack the hypocritical arrogance to criticise others for not doing so when they hadn't themselves.
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(CBS/AP) John Kerry is running for president, so it's no wonder that his legislative and fundraising record is under intense scrutiny. He's been a U.S. senator for 17 years, so it's no surprise that some of his donors had questionable motives.

But Kerry's own campaign rhetoric, in which he rails against special interests and firms that send American jobs overseas, has sharpened attention on his contributors.

For example, Kerry said earlier this month that President Bush "continues to fight for incentives to encourage Benedict Arnold companies to ship jobs overseas."

The Washington Post reports in Thursday's editions that firms at companies who have moved jobs overseas have given $140,000 to Kerry's campaign, and he has received $400,000 from executives at investment firms that have helped firms take advantage of offshore tax havens.

Kerry says he didn't know his donors were involved in those practices, and said he opposed firms evading taxes. The sums are small compared to the nearly $30 million Kerry has raised, and pale in comparison to what Mr. Bush has taken from the same firms, The Post reports.

"If anyone thinks a contribution can buy Kerry's vote, then they are wasting their money," Kerry spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter has said:

But the money could open the door to Republican charges that Kerry is a hypocrite on campaign finance, which was already the theme of a Bush-Cheney Web advertisement.

The "Benedict Arnold" donations are not the only ones that have raised questions. Others include:

Last week Parthasarathi Majumder pled guilty to making illegal donations to Kerry and other lawmakers. The Los Angeles Times reports Kerry sent 28 letters from 1996 to 1999 to try to free up federal funds for a missile system that Majumder was working on.

Majumder and his workers gave $25,000 to Kerry over that three-year period. Federal prosecutors charged that Majumder illegally reimbursed his employees for their donations.

Kerry's campaign recently donated the tainted money to charity, and it denied Kerry wrote the letters because of the donations. Lawmakers often pen such letters to get work for constituents; one of Majumder's subcontractors was based in Massachusetts.

Kerry has said he wants to "free our government from the grip of the lobbyists." But he has accepted more "hard money" donations ? $640,000 ? from lobbyists that any other senator in the past 15 years.
Kerry's campaign says the donations did not influence any of Kerry's votes, and notes that Mr. Bush took far more money from lobbyists. Kerry's chief Democratic rival, John Edwards, also took lobbyist money, according to published reports.

The Kerry campaign says if PAC money were counted, Kerry would rank among the least-favored recipients of lobbyist money.

In 1998, Democratic fund-raiser Johnny Chung, pleaded guilty to charges involving an $8,000 donation to Kerry's 1996 Senate campaign. Kerry was never accused of knowing that Chung's donations were illegal.

But Newsweek reported recently that after meeting with Chung and an associate in 1996, Kerry called on the SEC to expedite a ruling on whether to allow the associate's company to list its stock in the United States. Weeks later, Chung threw a $10,000 fundraiser for Kerry in California.

Kerry opposed a 2000 bill that would have stripped $150 million from the Boston "Big Dig" construction project. The bill also would have closed a loophole favorable to the American International Group.

AIG subsequently paid Kerry's way on a trip to Vermont and donated at least $30,000 to a tax-exempt group Kerry used to set up his presidential campaign. Company executives also donated $18,000 to his Senate and presidential campaigns, according to records obtained by the Associated Press.

Kerry's campaign says he opposed the bill only because it would have cost Massachusetts money, and that Kerry was opposed to the loophole that benefited AIG.

Kerry launched a tax-exempt political committee that collected nearly a half million dollars directly from companies and labor unions just before those types of donations were outlawed in late 2002, tax records show.

Many of the biggest donors to that effort came from companies with direct interests before Kerry's Senate committee, and the Massachusetts Democrat spent much of the money laying groundwork in early presidential primary states, the records show.

At least three times in his Senate career, Kerry has recommended individuals for positions at federal home loan banks just before or after receiving political contributions from the nominees, records show.

In one case, Kerry wrote to the Federal Housing Finance Board to urge the reappointment of a candidate just one day before a Kerry campaign committee received $1,000 from the nominee, the records show.

"One has nothing to do with the other," said Marvin Siflinger, who contributed around the time of Kerry's Oct. 1, 1996, recommendation that he be reappointed for another term to the board.

Kerry's office, like the nominees, insists the timing of the donations and the nominations was a coincidence.

"Sen. Kerry recommends dozens of very qualified individuals each year without regard to their politics or contributions. In this case each of the individuals were highly qualified for the jobs they were appointed to and served with distinction," Cutter said.
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Finally, the man who wanted to be President took on one big endevour in his State.. It was the biggest fiasco, and everyone in the country has ended up paying for the BIG DIG. and guess what? It still isn't done right..

CASH AND KERRY’S “BIG DIG”
AP: “Kerry Blocked Law, Drew Cash”
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Charles Lewis, Head Of The Center For Public Integrity: “The Idea That [Sen. John] Kerry [D-MA] Has Not Helped Or Benefited From A Specific Special Interest, Which He Has Said, Is Utterly Absurd.” (John Solomon, “Kerry Blocked Law, Drew Cash,” The Associated Press, 2/4/04)

U.S. TRANSPORTATION DEPT. UNCOVERED
“BIG DIG” INSURANCE LOOPHOLE

In 1999, Clinton Transportation Department Uncovered An Insurance Loophole That Had Netted $129.8 Million From Boston’s Infamous “Big Dig” Construction Project. “[I]n 1999, the Transportation Department uncovered a financing scheme in which the project had overpaid $129.8 million to AIG for worker compensation and liability insurance that wasn’t needed, then had allowed the insurer to keep the money in a trust and invest it in the market. The government alleged AIG kept about half of the profits it made from the investments, providing the other half to the project.” (John Solomon, “Kerry Blocked Law, Drew Cash,” The Associated Press, 2/4/04)

CASH AND KERRY BLOCKED PROVISION TO CLOSE LOOPHOLE

In 2000, Kerry Blocked Provision That Would Have Stripped $150 Million From “Big Dig” And Ended Insurance Funding Loophole. “A Senate colleague was trying to close a loophole that allowed a major insurer to divert millions of federal dollars from the nation’s most expensive construction project. John Kerry stepped in and blocked the legislation. … Kerry’s office confirmed Wednesday that as member of the Senate Commerce Committee he persuaded committee chairman John McCain, R-Ariz., to drop a provision that would have stripped $150 million from the project and ended the insurance funding loophole.” (John Solomon, “Kerry Blocked Law, Drew Cash,” The Associated Press, 2/4/04)

CASH AND KERRY THEN RECEIVED LARGE CONTRIBUTIONS
FROM “BIG DIG” INSURANCE COMPANY, INCLUDING SOFT MONEY

Since Then, Insurance Company Has Donated $30,000 In Corporate Soft Money To Kerry’s 527 Committee And An Additional $18,000 To His Senate And Presidential Campaigns. “Over the next two years, the insurer, American International Group, paid Kerry’s way on a trip to Vermont and donated at least $30,000 to a tax-exempt group Kerry used to set up his presidential campaign. Company executives donated $18,000 to his Senate and presidential campaigns.” (John Solomon, “Kerry Blocked Law, Drew Cash,” The Associated Press, 2/4/04)

Ø In 2001, Insurance Company Even Paid For A Kerry Trip To VT. “In September 2001, Kerry disclosed to the Senate ethics office that AIG had paid an estimated $540 in travel expenses to cover his costs for a speech in Burlington, Vt.” (John Solomon, “Kerry Blocked Law, Drew Cash,” The Associated Press, 2/4/04)

Other “Big Dig” Contractors Contributed At Least $60,000 In Soft Money To Kerry’s 527 Citizen Soldier PAC: Jay Cashman Inc.: $25,000; Lelio “Les” Marino $25,000 (Co-Founder of Modern Continental Construction Co.); and Modern Continental Construction Co. $10,000. (Political Money Line Website, www.tray.com, Accessed 2/4/04; Dick Dahl, “The Big Finish,” Boston Business Journal, 10/5/01)

CASH AND KERRY SPECIAL INTEREST HYPOCRITE

In 2001, Kerry Warned His Senate Colleagues Of Very Thing He Did On “Big Dig.” “In March 2001, for example, [Kerry] warned his colleagues that taking money from special interests created the perception that Congress was for sale. ‘When somebody sitting on a particular committee has to go out and raise money from people who have business before that committee, or when someone in the Senate has to ask for money from people who have legislative interests in front of them on which they will vote, there is almost an automatic cloud, he [Kerry] said.’ Kerry should know. Over the course of his Senate career, he has not been averse to taking campaign cash from companies and firms with a direct interest in his work.” (Charles Lewis and The Center For Public Integrity, The Buying Of The Presidency 2004, 2004, pp. 364-365)

Now you know what, the stupid thing sprung a leak....
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Why wasn't his feet held to the fire on any of these issues? We know why, the media is only interested in destroying Bush, and making Kerry look good..
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[Beatrice1000]

** “PM Sharon meets with US Sen Kerry,” 1-10-05 **

"Prime Minister Ariel Sharon met Monday morning in his Jerusalem office, with US Senator John Kerry (D-MA), who is on a regional visit in order to - inter alia - observe the election process in the Palestinian Authority (PA). ....... Prime Minister Sharon thanked Sen. Kerry for the clear positions on Israel that he held to during the recent US presidential race and told him about his meeting with his brother Cameron. ...."

MEETING WITH BROTHER CAMERON ???

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** "Bush May Invite New PA President to Washington" - 1/10/05 **

".....Leaders of the official U.S. observer delegation to the Palestinian election, Senators Joseph R. Biden, Jr. and John Sununu, said in a statement that the Palestinian people had "conducted a clear, open and fair election, largely unimpeded and without interference." ......"

Guess others ARE along on this "solo mission" and I'm glad to hear that -- funny they weren't mentioned until now..... maybe they were only involved in the PA elections and not the rest of the "road trip."

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