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Below is Kerry’s news conference on 22 Jul 71, just 21 days following Madame Binh’s arrival in Paris to press the Communist 7-Point Proposal. It took Kerry just 21 days to set-up this press conference and push for the communist 7-Point Proposal. Also, how would Kerry know that Nixon was ignoring this proposal which had only been identified 21 days earlier? Sure sounds like treason to me! Also below is Corsi’s article, “Kerry and the Paris Peace Talks”. Is this distressed and confused?
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WASHINGTON, July 22 (AP)—A number of wives of American prisoners of war lashed out today at John F. Kerry, the peace group leader, accusing him of using the prisoner issue as a springboard to political office.
When Mr. Kerry, a spokesman for the Vietnam Veteran Against the War, attempted to introduce relatives of war prisoners at a news conference, four women shouted, “That’s a lie,” and “What office are you going to run for next?”
“This is a humane issue and should remain so,” cried Mrs. Patricia Hardy of Los Angeles.
One of the women accused Mr. Kerry of “constantly using our own suffering and grief” for his political ambitions.
At the opening of the news conference, Mr. Kerry called on President Nixon to publicly set a date for withdrawal of all American troops from Vietnam so that prisoners of war could come home.
He said Mr. Nixon earlier refused to set a withdrawal date because of North Vietnam’s refusal to guarantee the return of American prisoners. But the latest Vietnam peace offer in Paris, which promises the release of prisoners as American troops are withdrawn, is being ignored by Mr. Nixon, Mr. Kerry charged.
Mr. Kerry, who is 27 years old, introduced wives, parents and sisters of prisoners to plead for support. One parent, Richard Sigler of Lakewood, Colo, said the Administration told them July 3 in a private briefing not to make any public statements because they might upset secret negotiations. “They never say how or what they’re doing,” Mr. Sigler said. “They simply say you shouldn’t upset the balance.”
Mr. Kerry, when asked if he planned to run again for political office, said only that he was committed to political change and that he would use whatever forum seemed best at the time. He was a candidate in the 1970 Democratic Congressional primary in Massachusetts but withdrew in favor of another candidate.
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Kerry and the Paris Peace Talks
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In June 1971, Le Duc Tho arrived in Paris to join the North Vietnamese Communist delegation to the peace talks. His arrival marked a sea change in the Communists' approach to advancing their goals via negotiations. Le Duc Tho was with Ho Chi Minh one of the original founders of the Communist Party of Indochina, one of North Vietnam's chief strategists.
He arrived to join a comrade, Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, who had been a member of the Central Committee for the National Front for the Liberation of the South, and was now Foreign Minister of the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) of South Vietnam. The military arm of the PRG was widely known as the Viet Cong, just as Madame Binh was widely recognized as the Viet Cong delegate to the conference.
On July 1, 1971, within days of Le Duc Tho's arrival, Madame Binh advanced a new 7-Point Proposal to end the war. Central to this plan was a cleverly crafted provision offering to set a date for the return of U.S. prisoners of war in exchange for the Americans setting a date for complete, unilateral military withdrawal from Vietnam. In other words, America could have her POWs back only if we would agree we lost, surrender, and set a date to leave.
About one year earlier, two young Americans had also come to Paris, arguably for their honeymoon -- John Kerry, a young, clean-shaven Navy war veteran, accompanied by his new wife, the former Julia Thorne, whose lineage traced back to George Washington.
But honeymooning was not John Kerry's only purpose in traveling to Paris. Kerry's presidential campaign has now acknowledged that he "talked privately with a leading communist representative" there.
On April 22, 1971, as he testified before Senator Fulbright's Committee on Foreign Relations, John Kerry mentioned that in Paris he had meetings with "both sides" of the Paris Peace Talks. The strong likelihood is that John Kerry also met with Le Duc Tho, or some other representative of the North Vietnamese delegation, in addition to Madame Binh who was in Paris representing the PRG. There is no reason to assume John Kerry had any interest in meeting with representatives of the other two sides in the Peace Talks -- the United States or South Vietnam.
Madame Binh's proposal was carefully crafted to send a strong emotional message to the American home front; that the only barrier to having our POWs returned was America's own unwillingness to set a date to withdraw -- even if the proposed withdrawal amounted to a defeat. The 7-Point Proposal directly challenged the South Vietnamese proposal to set a date for a truce and a free election designed to reunify Vietnam. The PRG and the Viet Cong clearly agreed with the Premier of Communist China, Cho En-lai that complete withdrawal of American military forces from Vietnam was the only precondition that would be discussed.
On July 22, 1971, John Kerry called a press conference in Washington, D.C. Speaking on behalf of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), Kerry openly urged President Nixon to accept Madame Binh's 7-Point plan. As the New York Times noted the following day, John Kerry suggested that President Nixon had refused to set a date for withdrawal because North Vietnam had not guaranteed the return of American POWs. Now that the Vietnamese Communists were promising to set a POW return date, Kerry argued that Nixon had no reasonable course left, except to set a date for withdrawing US military forces. Kerry failed to mention one consideration President Nixon most likely found compelling -- that America's cause was just and that the interests of freedom might best be served halting the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia. The U.S., in President Nixon's view, had not fought the war to abandon our allies to Communism but to defend South Vietnam's right to self-determination.
Today, presidential candidate John Kerry would have us believe that the only goal of his anti-war activities was to speak up bravely against a war he knew to be without justification. All he wanted to do was to stop a war where military policies such as free fire zones, the issuance of .50 caliber machine guns to Swift Boats, and tactics such as search-and-destroy led inevitably to war crimes, the killing of innocent civilians and the burning of peaceful villages.
John Kerry today wants us to believe that he has always been an anti-Communist. Yet the historical record raises questions about that claim. Loyal Americans think twice about violating the legal provision against negotiating with foreign powers (18 U.S.C. 953) and the Constitutional prohibition against giving support to our nation's enemies during wartime (Article III, Section 3). Anti-Communists do not openly support proposals that amount to an American surrender to Communist enemies in time of war.
John Kerry may believe in his own mind that his participation in the anti-war cause lifted him to a new moral plane, one where he would not be restricted by conventional legal distinctions or common-sense understandings of patriotism. Yet the record shows that Kerry and the VVAW consistently coordinated their efforts with Communists, both foreign and domestic, represented their positions, and repeated their grossly exaggerated claims of American atrocities. In fact, it is hard to find any disagreement whatsoever between Kerry's words and actions as a leader of the VVAW and those of the Hanoi and Vietcong leadership. Had Madame Binh herself been permitted to testify before that Senate committee in place of John Kerry, the most noticeable difference might have been the absence of a Boston accent.
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Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D.

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[RMalloy]

Am I wrong on this? In his "Tour of Duty" the book says Kerry spent
his honeymoon on an island in Jamaica. No mention of Europe or
Paris.

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[kate]

RMalloy
I havent read the book, however Kerry doesnt dispute that trip to Paris.

Honeymoon would therefore seem to be an extended trip, to both destinations.
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[TEWSPilot]

He thinks he was in Cambodia at Christmas '68, so how would he know where he spent his honeymoon?...Since Threeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaza calls him her "Pet Wolf", maybe he just howls at the moon.
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[jglackin]

This will come in handy at another site where I have been fighting with some misguided liberals.