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7/30 Kerry Wins Endorsement from Sandinista Thug
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/7/30/90014.shtml
\_ Do you really want to bring the Contra scandal into this?
The man's body is hardly cold.
\_ And in other news, KKK leaders endorse Bush.
\_ Well, no, but they did endorse Reagan.
\_ URL? There is none since this is not true. It always makes me
laugh when you respond to factual URLs with complete fabrication,
as if your false assertions are the same as the truth. Even if
what you said was true, it still doesn't make the posted URL
false or make Kerry look better. Rhetoric 1A.
\_ Kerry's support of the Sandinistas is all very
well documented. It is the quintessential Kerry.
\_ Heh. Some credible URLs perhaps?
\_ Newsmax? Credible? I guess I can just start my own news
\_ Kerry negotiates with Ortega. The next
day Ortega goes to Moscow. Kerry is
gullible like Carter:
http://csua.org/u/8e5
\_ Why are you so filled with hate?
\_ Because he knows he's going to lose.
\_ I love that the page has a poll that
compares Kerry's speech to "A speech on
sexual abstinence by Richard Burton. It
was impressive but you know it's time
to hide the nanny goat." What the hell
is that supposed to mean? Do you see any
problem with trustting a source like this?
\_ Its really easy: type Kerry
Sandinista is google. Are you too
stupid to research this yourself?
\_ And you turn up freerepublic,
newsmax, nationalreview, and
insightmag. Branch out.
\_ I googled it, thats what came
up. I know the history this
seemed consistent. I have
no other experience with the
site.
\_ You don't know the history
if you don't follow the line
through to Kerry's examination
of the Iran-Contra dealings.
\_ Vast Right Wing Conspiracy?
No such thing!
\_ Uhm, yeah there is. It's
called the RNC.
site and call it a "credible source for news", make it
look like a tabloid, and people will come visit my site
in and reference it as "facts". It's an amazing world
we live in when thousands of idiots can post their
worthless ideas as "facts". By the way, I'm sure there
are Sandinista thugs who support Kerry. I'm also sure
there are KKK members who support Bush.
\_ Wow, some conservative doesn't like me linking Bush to
that icon of racial tolerance, Bob Jones "University"..
\_ Homer: See Lisa, instead of one big-shot controlling
all the media, now there's a thousand freaks xeroxing
their worthless opinions.
Lisa: I couldn't be prouder.
\_ Nice sentiments, but you're squishing other people's
changes.
\_ Newsmax "factual?" I guess by the Michael Moore standard of
facts...
\_ http://www.iht.com/articles/510898.html
\_ Bush doesn't have a record of supporting terrorists,
Kerry does have a record of vociferously supporting
the Sandinistas.
\_ I guess you missed the speech last night, huh? You guys are
toast.
\_ While I certainly share your sentiment, I think it's much
too soon to say that with any certainty.
\_ The boring, safe, content-free speech? I saw it. What
about it? Only the DNC base was impressed by it. That's
not true. I was impressed that he didn't speechify like
he usually does. Instead he whizzed through the last half
in 15 minutes like some sort of coke head. That was
funny.
\_ Woo hoo, you got the talking points! Good boy.
Anyway, the speech kicked ass.
\_ I disagree. I think most of them sucked when
compared to Clinton's. What little of Wes Clark
I heard was pretty good. I guess we'll just have
to wait for the Republican National Conv. where
Bush's speech will take oratory to a new low.
\_ Didn't Bush give millions to the Taliban before 9/11?
How does that not count as "supporting terrorists?"
\_ "Scary Dude: Michael Moore" message on that page. No wonder. |
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| newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/7/30/90014.shtml Friday, July 30, 2004 8:58 am EDT Kerry Wins Endorsement from Sandinista Thug John Kerry has picked up the endorsement of a terrorist-friendly Sandinista leader notorious for his brutality when his old Communist regime still ruled Nicaragua. "The most eye-popping Kerry endorsement last week came from Tmas Borge, one of the nine commandantes of Nicaragua's famed Sandinista revolution and perhaps the most feared," reported Wall Street Journal's Mary Anastasia O'Grady just hours after Kerry accepted his party's nomination in Boston. Borge's warm feeling toward Kerry undoubtedly emanates from the trip Kerry and Sen. Tom Harkin made to Nicaragua in 1986 to urge then-Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega not to knuckle under to Reagan administration pressure on their Communist regime. A week later, Ortega traveled to Moscow to get his marching orders from the Politboro, leaving Kerry and his fellow Dems with major egg on their faces. The new Kerry backer also ran a kidnap ring and has ties to Basque terrorists in Spain, the Journal said. |
| csua.org/u/8e5 -> www.insightmag.com/news/2004/05/16/Politics/Kerrys.Disloyal.Nicaraguan.Journey-681125.shtml By J Michael Waller A trademark of the Kerry school of statecraft: making common cause with enemies of the United States - and allowing himself to be used by them - in order to win political battles at home. A trademark of the Kerry school of statecraft: making common cause with enemies of the United States - and allowing himself to be used by them - in order to win political battles at home. In his first major foreign-policy action as a US senator nearly 20 years ago, John Kerry accused the United States of "funding terrorism." Barely three months after being sworn as a senator, Kerry made his mark, and he made it big, as one of the leading opponents of President Ronald Reagan's effort to defeat Soviet-sponsored revolutionaries in the American hemisphere. The junior senator stopped at nothing: working with the nation's sworn ideological enemies, making damaging, distorted and often baseless allegations about US covert operations, accusing his own government of sponsoring terrorism, and even damaging an FBI operation against a Colombian cocaine cartel. That April 1985 journey to Nicaragua would become a trademark of the Kerry school of statecraft: making common cause with enemies of the United States - and allowing himself to be used by them - in order to win political battles at home. The enemy of the 1980s was not Osama bin Laden and his allies, but the Soviet Union and its proxy regimes and guerrilla forces around the world. SR at the time was also the world's primary sponsor of international terrorism. It was not without concern, then, that Reagan, with the help of a bipartisan majority in Congress, financed an anticommunist guerrilla army in Nicaragua, made up mainly of peasants disenfranchised by the Soviet-backed Marxist-Leninist junta that had taken power shortly before Reagan was elected to office. That junta had by now sponsored communist guerrilla and terrorist groups from neighboring countries and presented a threat to the entire region. But Kerry, ever the defender of the communist left, didn't buy it. To prevent the junta, known as the Sandinista National Liberation Front, from consolidating power, Reagan strongly backed the resistance fighters, whom the Sandinistas dubbed "contras," to pressure the regime either to hold free and fair elections or be overthrown. US involvement in resisting the Soviet-backed revolutionary movements in Central America was a politically emotional issue at the time, and the highly charged atmosphere forced Reagan to tread carefully on Capitol Hill. Seeking the release of a $14 million appropriation from the previous year for the Nicaraguan resistance, and faced with public opposition, Reagan offered to limit US aid to the "contras" to humanitarian assistance only, provided the Sandinistas agreed to national reconciliation and free elections that would have broken their total grip on power. The president told Congress that if the Sandinistas failed to comply by the deadline, he would use part of the $14 million to arm and militarily equip the growing insurgent army. Reagan's compromise with Congress wasn't good enough for Kerry, the only freshman senator on the then-prestigious Foreign Relations Committee. For the new lawmaker, Central America was a cause - and he was on the other side. The new senator already had placed himself among the intractable opposition to Reagan's national-security strategy. "How can you teach liberty and justice and support death squads?" he demanded, falsely accusing the administration of backing the most thuggish and undemocratic elements in Central America. Vietnam in Nicaragua: Once in office in 1985, Kerry acted on his words. He held a news conference accusing the US government of financing terrorism. "Foreign policy should represent the democratic values that have made our country great, not subvert those values by funding terrorism to overthrow the governments of other countries," Kerry said in a statement. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) would go to Managua, the Nicaraguan capital. The pair of Vietnam-era radicals held two days of secret talks with Sandinista junta leader Daniel Ortega, timing the visit just before a scheduled vote on release of the $14 million to the freedom fighters. They arrived in the Nicaraguan capital late on April 18 for two days of scheduled talks with Marxist officials. with enough information to sway congressional votes on the issue of aid to antigovernment rebels." In an interview with the Globe, Harkin said that as Vietnam veterans he and Kerry "bring perspective to the situation here in Central America that perhaps others not involved in the Vietnam War might not have." According to the New York Times, Harkin and Kerry said "that they were seeking commitments that could help defeat President Reagan's request." The Globe reported from Managua, "After marathon meetings with the senators that spilled into the early-morning hours, Ortega reasserted Nicaragua's commitment to Central America as a zone free of nuclear weapons and foreign military bases, including those of the Soviet Union and Cuba." Kerry foreign-policy aide Richard McCall and Sandinista officials hammered out a working paper that Kerry said he would present to President Reagan. Ortega reportedly was at their side for the last three hours of the meeting. The final three-page product, which Kerry called a "peace proposal," included Sandinista promises of a cease-fire, as long as the United States cut off all assistance, including humanitarian aid, to the anticommunist forces and their families. Back in Washington, Harkin claimed that the Sandinistas "desire peace and not only normal but friendly relations with the United States. "This is a wonderful opening" for peace, Kerry added of the Ortega plan, "without having to militarize the region." It was nothing more than a "restatement of old positions," a State Department official said at the time. "There is no mention of any dialogue with the unified democratic opposition, which we consider essential to internal reconciliation. Without such a dialogue, a cease-fire proposal is meaningless, essentially a call for the opposition to surrender." A White House spokesman dismissed the Kerry-Harkin-Ortega plan as nothing more than "propaganda." Even the Sandinistas' own Washington lawyer, Paul S Reichler, said the plan offered nothing new. "There is no offer of any kind from the government of Nicaragua today that is any different from what they've been saying all along," Reichler told the New York Times. The newspaper also noted that in the plan the Sandinistas made no commitment to national reconciliation. Nevertheless, on the floor of the Senate in an emotional April 23 speech, Kerry presented the document as something new. "I share with this body the aide-mmoire which was presented to us by President Ortega," he told his colleagues - without mentioning his own role and that of his aide McCall in its drafting. "Here," he pronounced to the Senate, "is a guarantee of the security interest of the United States." Kerry continued: "My generation, a lot of us grew up with the phrase 'give peace a chance' as part of a song that captured a lot of people's imagination. I hope that the president of the United States will give peace a chance." and now they're trying to force the president of the United States to negotiate with the president of Nicaragua. code when they undertake to negotiate" and are "usurping a section of the Constitution" giving only the president the right to negotiate with foreign leaders, Goldwater said. "To transgress against the Constitution is wrong, wrong, wrong." Kerry shot back that he was "a veteran of Vietnam who fought and was wounded in that conflict." Rebuked by the Secretary of State: But collaboration with the Sandinistas wasn't what Shultz had in mind. Speaking before several thousand State Department employees two days after the above exchange on the Senate floor, Shultz took an indirect swipe at Kerry and Harkin. He zeroed in on policy critics who previously had pooh-poohed what would happen to Southeast Asia as they demanded and achieved an end to US support for those embattled peoples. are some of those who a... |
| www.iht.com/articles/510898.html Weekend Islamic group warns other nations The Associated Press Thursday, March 18, 2004 Japan, Italy, Australia and Britain are listed CAIRO The Islamic militant group that claimed responsibility for the Madrid train bombings has warned that its next targets could be Japan, Italy, Britain or Australia, an Arabic newspaper reported on Thursday. The newspaper, Al Quds al Arabi, which is based in London, said on its Web site that it had received a statement from the group, the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, in which the group reiterated its responsibility for bombings, which killed 201 people and wounded more than 1,600. "Our brigades are getting ready now for the coming strike," said the statement, dated March 15. Is it Japan, America, Italy, Britain, Saudi Arabia or Australia?" The statement warned these countries that "the brigades of death are at your doors," adding that they would strike "with an iron hand at the right time and place." The Australian and Japanese governments said on Thursday, a week after the Madrid bombings, that they would not be intimidated. In Perth, Australia, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said that "organizations like Jemaah Islamiyah and Al Qaeda are not going to tell Australia what to do." In Tokyo, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Japan would "not be swayed." The newspaper's editor, Abdel Bari Atwan, told The Associated Press that Al Quds al Arabi received the statement by e-mail on Wednesday night. The paper has received other e-mailed statements from this group. On the evening of the Madrid bombings, the paper released an e-mail from Abu Hafs al-Masri in which it made the first claim of responsibility. "This statement is authentic," Atwan said, adding that the group previously took responsibility for last year's suicide attacks in Istanbul and on the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad. The United States believes that the Abu Hafs group lacks credibility and that it has only tenuous ties to Al Qaeda. In the past, the group has claimed responsibility for events to which they were not connected, including last summer's blackouts in North America and Britain. The Spanish authorities suspect that an Al Qaeda-linked cell carried out the bombings. Moroccan officials have said that the emerging evidence in the Madrid attacks points toward Ansar al-Islam, a guerrilla group blamed for attacks in Iraq, Jordan, Turkey and Morocco. Other groups believed to be involved in the bombings are Salafia Jihadia and Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group. In its statement, Abu Hafs al-Masri said it was calling a truce in Spain to give the Socialist government, which was elected on Sunday, three days after the train attacks, time to carry out its pledge to withdraw troops from Iraq. The group appeared to boast it had the power to change governments. The Socialists, who have long opposed Spain's military involvement in Iraq, were running second in Spanish opinion polls until the bombings last Thursday. "We even influence the international economy, and this is God's blessing to us. We won't accept to be an object in this world, but a player, a strong player - with God's will." The statement tells Americans that Abu Hafs al-Masri supports the re-election of President George W Bush. "We are very keen that Bush does not lose the upcoming elections," it said. Addressing Bush, it said: "We know that a heavyweight operation would destroy your government, and this is what we don't want. The statement said Abu Hafs al-Masri needs what it called Bush's "idiocy and religious fanaticism" because they would "wake up" the Islamic world. Comparing Bush with his Democratic challenger, Senator John Kerry, the statement tells the president, "Actually, there is no difference between you and Kerry, but Kerry will kill our community, while it is unaware, because he and the Democrats have the cunning to embellish infidelity and present it to the Arab and Islamic community as civilization." The group also repeated its claim of responsibility for the bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad last August, when 22 people were killed, including the UN's chief envoy to Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello. The statement described the United Nations as "America's tail." "The United Nations is a branch of the American Foreign Ministry," it said. "The crimes of the United Nations against Islam are countless. The way to get rid of that humiliation is through holy war that will continue until doomsday." |