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A Foreign Policy To Be Scared Of

Friendly with the enemy: Kerry?’s fondness for Vietnam?’s communist dictatorship, one of the most oppressive in the world, continues.
As chairman of the Select Senate Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, created in 1991 to investigate reports that U.S. prisoners of war and soldiers designated missing in action were still alive in Vietnam, Kerry badgered the panel into voting that no American servicemen remained in Vietnam.

?“[N]o one in the United States Senate pushed harder to bury the POW/MIA issue, the last obstacle preventing normalization of relations with Hanoi, than John Forbes Kerry,?” noted U.S. Veteran Dispatch.

?“But Kerry's participation in the Committee became controversial in December 1992,?” reported the nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity, ?“when Hanoi announced that it had awarded Colliers International, a Boston-based real estate company, an exclusive deal to develop its commercial real estate potentially worth billions. Stuart Forbes, the CEO of Colliers, is Kerry's cousin.?”

The ?“odd coincidence,?” according to FrontPageMagazine.com, involved a deal worth $905 million.

Jeff Jacoby, the token conservative columnist at the Boston Globe, notes that Kerry continues his apologia for Vietnam's never-ending atrocities. ''Far from taking the lead on the Vietnam Human Rights Bill, he has prevented it from coming to a vote. He claims that making an issue of Hanoi's repression would be counterproductive.''


Kerry is also a fan of China?’s communist dictatorship. ?“On May 19, 1994, five years after Tiananmen Square, Kerry spoke on the Senate floor against linking China's Most Favored Nation trade status to its human rights record,?” Slate reported.

Kerry said: ?“China is the strongest military power in Asia. We need China's cooperation. We cannot afford to adopt a cold-war kind of policy that merely excludes and pushes China away.?”

Limiting China's MFN status ?“would make us a bit player in a production of enormous proportions. We possess no stick, including MFN, which can force China to embrace internationally recognized human rights and freedoms.?”
This is a story that no one has talked about. The main stream media points fingers at Haliburton all the time but ignores this part of Kerry's background. The stories are there people. Read them and be afraid. Be very afraid.

By TMM

Is he real? What a crazy questio

Former chairman and CEO of General Electric Jack Welch lists five questions you should ask yourself before pulling the lever on November 2: Five Questions to Ask ...

Is he real? What a crazy question, right? But authenticity really matters when it comes to crisis leadership. A person cannot make hard decisions, hold unpopular positions, or stand tall for what he believes unless he knows who he is and feels comfortable in his own skin. I am talking about self-confidence and conviction. These traits make a leader bold and decisive, which is absolutely critical in times where you must act quickly, often without complete information. Just as important, authenticity makes a leader likable, for lack of a better word. His ?“realness?” comes across in the way he communicates and reaches people on an emotional level. His words move them; his message touches something inside. ...

Does he see around corners? Every leader has to have a vision and predict the future, of course, but great leaders in tough times must have a special ability to anticipate the radically unexpected. In business, the best leaders in brutally competitive environments have a ?“sixth sense?” for market changes, as well as moves by existing competitors and new entrants. For the next president in our new world, a ?“sixth sense?” is not enough. He needs a seventh sense?—paranoia about what lurks in dark corners we cannot even see. ...

Who?’s around him? In tough times in particular, a leader needs to surround himself with people who are smarter than he is, and they must have the grit to disagree with him and each other. ...

Does he get back on the horse? Every leader makes mistakes, every leader stumbles and falls. The question is, does he learn from his mistakes, regroup and then get going again with renewed speed, conviction and confidence? The name for this trait is resilience, and it is so important that a leader must have it going in to a job because if he doesn?’t, a crisis time is too late to learn it. ...

Is he pro-business? Last but not least, the leader of the United States must love business, because a thriving economy is the free world?’s last, best hope. It has become very fashionable in the past few years to say that business is bad and crooked. The antibusiness fervor even got to the point that CEOs who outsourced production, in order to stay competitive, were labeled ?“Benedict Arnolds.?” What nonsense.


By CEOofGeneral ElectricJack Welch

His mother suffers from Alzheime

SON WONDERS HOW PARENTS IN NURSING HOME VOTED


The man says he thinks his parents could have been subject to voter fraud.


HARTVILLE, Ohio (AP) -- When Robert Floyd went to visit his parents at the nursing home where they reside in northeast Ohio, he was surprised that both were wearing ``I voted today'' stickers.

His mother suffers from Alzheimer's. His father, ailing with lung cancer, is under hospice care. He said they are not capable of voting. he says both are 81, and their minds are failing them.

State law requires local boards of elections to conduct absentee ballot voting at nursing homes. But Floyd is concerned that his parents' physical and mental incapacities may have made them susceptible to voting fraud.

Stark County Board of Elections Director Jeff Matthews said Ohio law is clear: ``They have a right to vote.''


By When Robert Floyd

World War Against Terrorism.


Liberal French paper cites debate skills
'internationalist' vision, war experience

The liberal French Daily, Le Monde, broke tradition and endorsed a candidate today for president in the upcoming U.S. election.
Citing ''exceptional stakes'' arising out of the events of Sept 11, Le Monde said that a victory for John Kerry was desirable ''beyond the borders of the United States.''
The endorsement reflects the sentiments of France. A poll commissioned by Le Monde last week showed only 16 percent of French respondents wanting George W. Bush to win, versus 72 percent for Kerry. ''Even the countries which supported the U.S. war in Iraq would be happier with a more mainstream type of president in Washington, one who would be more acceptable to all the Europeans,'' Guillaume Parmentier, director of the Center on the United States at the French Institute of International Relations, told Cybercast News Service.
Le Monde's endorsement said President Bush ''exploits fear of new attacks'' while asking for four more years to conclude his ''world war against terrorism.'' Kerry was praised for his ''internationalist'' vision of the world, his experience in Vietnam and the force of convictions shown in the three presidential debates.
The translated endorsement reads: Does Osama bin Laden vote for George W. Bush or John F. Kerry? The Machiavellian interruption of the al-Qaida chief four days before the American election, in an ''October surprise'' dreaded by all the strategists, brutally placed this election in its true context: that of Sept. 11 and its continuations. John Kerry, the Democratic candidate, estimates that the war in Iraq diverted American military resources in the fight against al-Qaida, prevented the capture of bin Laden and reinforced the terrorist threat. President Bush openly exploits fear of new attacks, always present among his fellow-citizens, and asks voters to give him four more years to conclude his ''world war against terrorism.'' Each one can thus exploit the intervention of Osama bin Laden to his advantage: Mr. Kerry by seeing there proof of the failure of the policy of his adversary, Mr. Bush by pushing still a little more the fear factor.
To pick a party in an election abroad is not in the tradition of Le Monde. The exceptional stakes of the Nov. 2 presidential election, however, and the situation in which this historical choice arises convinced us that a victory for John Kerry was desirable, beyond the borders of the United States.
Because it is indeed a choice between two visions of the world and what is right. George W. Bush proposes to his countrymen to reclaim the system they knew before September 11, 2001 ... The vision of President Bush is that of a country at war ... with rules impossible to define. A war so unique that it is necessary to sacrifice legal restraints on him on which the American democracy is founded, to replace the tradition of transparency by opacity and spinning, and to ignore the international architecture which is at the center of a world consensus for over half a century.
John Kerry knows the world changed on Sept. 11, 2001. But he refuses to see in terrorism some higher force that justifies questioning the bases of American democracy and its international nature. His personal engagement during the Vietnam War, his experience of foreign politics and his ''internationalist'' vision of the world, his capacity to recognize errors, as well as the force of conviction made evident during three presidential debates make him a much more suitable statesman than Mr. Bush to answer the challenges after Sept. 11


By Europeans,Guillaume Parmentier