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[fortdixlover]

What was John Kerry up to when Kennedy and Carter were trying to sell the US down the river?

http://powerlineblog.com/archives/015679.php

Ted Kennedy -- KGB collaborator?

Ted Kennedy has acknowledged that Ronald Reagan "will be honored as the president who won the Cold War." But if a letter from the head of the KGB to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov is authentic and accurate, then Kennedy offered to work with the Soviets to undermine the very efforts by Reagan that brought us that victory.

The letter, dated May 14 1983, features in a new book by Paul Kengor called The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism discussed here by the Washington Times. In the letter, KGB head Viktor Chebrikov describes a message he received from Kennedy through Kennedy pal and former U.S. Senator John Tunney. According to Chebrikov, Kennedy (through Tunney) expressed concern with "Reagan's belligerence" and the fact that antipathy towards the Soviets will be an important issue in the 1984 presidential campaign. Kennedy stated that the peaceful intentions of the Soviets weren't being given their due by the president or the media. He therefore proposed a meeting with Soviet officials in which he would "arm" them with arguments "so they may be better prepared and more convincing during appearances in the USA." He also suggested that Andropov made himself available for interviews by media in the U.S.

In short, if the KGB man's account is accurate, Kennedy was working with the Soviets to undermine Reagan's hard line policies and influence the 1984 election. As Kengor puts it:

If the memo is in fact an accurate account of what transpired, it constitutes a remakable example of the lengths to which some on the political left, including a sitting U.S. senator, were willing to go to stop Ronald Reagan.

Raise your hand if you believe that Ted Kennedy and today's left-wing Democrats are above this sort of behavior when it comes to stopping President Bush.

JOHN adds: Kennedy wasn't the only one. As we've noted before, Soviet archives also indicate that Jimmy Carter and Tip O'Neill offered to collaborate with the Russians to undermine Reagan.

Posted by Paul at 09:33 AM
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[Me#1You#10]

[USAFE5]

I am baffled at the uniform sKerry is wearing. His hair is way out of regs and I have never seen anyone wear their medals on fatigues before.
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[mtboone]

Navy was never issued any type of fatigues. We stole only camo, tiger stripe fatigues or traded for them. This picture was only for photo ops and nothing more by the leftist and communist press then as it is now.
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[LewWaters]

From the Army point of view, he is wearing standard stateside fatigues and no ribbons were authorized to be worn on them.

In Viet Nam, we wore an entirely different work uniform, Jungle Fatigues, which had slanted pockets and even baggier than what he has on.

Like MTBoone said, he is dressed as he is strictly for a photo op.
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[Me#1You#10]

My bet is you're looking at the political muscle that may have been instrumental in Kerry getting PH #1 awarded 3 months after the fact and a co-conspirator in conceiving, facilitating and counseling Kerry's treasonous trips to Paris.

The genesis of this topic's treasonous conduct may have had its prototype a decade earlier.

[mtboone]

[Theresa Alwood]

I often wonder why the people of MA still vote him in office? While I am one of those people who believe the he should have been sitting in some jail cell....never elected to a political office. But then again I think Kerry should be sitting in some military jail for his actions also. It is sad that those who are rich and powerful do not have to live by the rest of the rules socieity. Can we force MA to be removed from the United States and make the state a part of France...they seem much more suited.
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[BuffaloJack]

[Snipe]

Seabees are issued utilities on a regular basis. However, in Kerrys
case, shouldn't the name go over the left pocket and branch of service
- US ARMY, US NAVY, USMC, US AIR FORCE. go over the right
pocket? All I ever wore were dungarees, but then, sailors on ships
tended to do that.
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[mtboone]

[LimaCharlie]

I was issued Marine style green fatigues and one pair of combat boots in early 1970 at Coronado for advisor training before being sent to Viet Nam. I was issued more Marine style green fatigues in Saigon. I remember carrying a seabag full of fatigues, another pair of combat boots, poncho, M-16 magazines, M-16 cleaning kit, flak jacket, helmet, and helemt liner along with the M-16 back to the Navy Transit Barracks before being sent to Qui Nhon as a Swift Boat Advisor. We had to buy the camo style fatigues and Advisor berets if we wanted to wear them.

I remember checking out of Viet Nam a year later at Camh Ranh Bay for the freedom flight. I had one M-16, one magazine, and the greens I was wearing. The guy checking me out of country asked, Where is everything else you were issued? I answered, They went down with my boat. He said, That is the same answer I always get from boat advisors. We had to strip naked and provide a urine sample while being watched before changing into civilian clothes. There was a firefight on the base perimeter that night. I remember being more scared than any other night in Viet Nam. I was unarmed, in civilian clothes, and felt very helpless.

We wore civilian clothes on the freedom flight back to the U.S. because of the protestors. The other services had to wear class A uniforms on the freedom flights. They were jealous of the sailors in civilian clothes with beards.
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[Schadow]

[Schadow]

Back to FDL's original topic for a minute, if Ted Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, John Tunney, Tip O'Neill, etc., did engage in the discourse described by the KGB, they were in clear violation of the Logan Act and could have spent up to three years in the Greybar Hotel.