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''John Kerry's Constitutional Conundrum
Written by Raymond Kraft
Thursday, October 14, 2004

Conundrum: Any perplexing question, or thing. Webster.

And Article 14, Section 3, now becomes John Kerry's Constitutional Conundrum.

I quote in full:

''Section 3. No person shall be a senator or representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two thirds of each House, remove such disability.''

Constitution of the United States, Article 14, Section 3 (emphasis added).

When John Kerry joined the navy and became a commissioned officer, he took an oath, an oath to protect and defend the United States and the Constitution of the United States against all enemies.

When he returned from Vietnam, while still a naval officer, John Kerry quickly became an anti-war protester, and a prominent leader of the anti-war activist organization, Vietnam Veterans Against the War.

While giving him the benefit of the doubt, I will assume that John Kerry intended his activism to shorten the war and save lives. But he made a catastrophic error in judgment. It did not. It prolonged the war, and it cost more American lives, and more Vietnamese lives. To be blunt, the anti-war activism of John Kerry and others like him had the unintended consequence of killing people, and their blood is on his hands.
How many people? It is impossible to know, with any certainty, but in his 1985 memoir, North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap wrote that if it had not been for anti-war activists such as John Kerry, North Vietnam, militarily beaten after the Tet Offensive, would have surrendered; but the anti-war movement, and in particular John Kerry's congressional testimony in April 1971, convinced the North Vietnamese that if they could hold on a little longer the growing anti-war movement and sentiment in America would turn America's military victory into a political defeat, and North Vietnam's military defeat into a political victory.

John Kerry was the point man for the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and with his April 1971 testimony before Congress, under oath, charging that Americans in Vietnam were committing war crimes on a daily basis as a matter of operational policy, he gave the North Vietnamese what they hadn't been able to get out of American POWs in the Hanoi Hilton: a confession of war crimes. A false confession, but a confession nonetheless.

An ex-POW, now Senator John McCain, wrote in an article for U.S. News & World Report (14 May 1972) that John Kerry's testimony was ''the most effective propaganda tool they had to use against us.'' Today, John Kerry's photograph is prominently displayed in the room of tribute to American anti-war protesters in the Vietnamese Communist War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). You can go see it at www.WinterSoldier.com.''



By Granny

More

'' Later, while still a naval officer, John Kerry met illegally with a North Vietnamese delegation in Paris to conduct unauthorized private diplomacy, for which he is reported to have lost his top secret security clearance, and although the documentation is not fully public (John Kerry will not release his full service records) there is reason to believe that he may have received a dishonorable discharge (see The New York Sun, October 13, 2004, ''Mystery Surrounds Kerry's Navy Discharge.'')
Because of the anti-war activism of John Kerry and others like him, the Vietnam war lasted several years longer than it might have. Several thousand American names are engraved on The Wall now, names of men who died after John Kerry took up the enemy's cause, men who might otherwise be alive today. And after the United States, internally defeated by the anti-war politics of the American left, abandoned South East Asia, more than four million Vietnamese and Cambodians died in the communist purges that followed.''


By Granny

69% of American Jews voting Kerr

I am embarrassed by the Jews who are voting for Kerry -
I am embarrassed as a Jew to report that a recently released poll conducted by the American Jewish Committee shows that 69% of American Jews are voting for John Kerry and only 24% for George Bush. What can Jews be thinking? What Jew who has his or her head screwed on straight, who understands that Israel's chief enemies in the Middle East were Saddam Hussein and Yassir Arafat, and that George Bush removed both of them, risking his presidency to do it, could vote for John Kerry? Think about it: the entire Jew-hating world, be it Arabs or Frenchmen -- joined by the entire terrorist world -- are rooting for John Kerry. Why are American Jews unable to grasp these obvious facts?
Yes, there are Jews and non-Jews who have been misled by Democrats into thinking that the Iraq war was avoidable and that Saddam could have been contained. This belief is a loophole I understand. But it is only an illusory loophole unless you believe that the United States could have indefinitely funded and supported 200,000 troops in the desert on the borders of Iraq to enforce the containment, which it could not. Still in my humble judgment this respectable illusion could only account for 20% of the 69% figure and so the mystery remains.


By the mystery remains.

I sufficiently my anti-Bush bona


I believe George Bush is a traitor to the American people and their Constitution. I believe he should be impeached for sacrificing American sovereignty to supra-national organizations and I suspect that he would be perfectly content to establish a neo-fascist corporatist state in which the government was allowed to trample individual liberties.
Now, have I sufficiently established my anti-Bush bona fides to write about John Kerry without being accused of being a Republican lapdog?

Bush is, without question, an execrable president. But that does not make John Kerry fit for the office. Nothing that Bush has done, or will do, has anything whatsoever to do with John Kerry's truthfulness, his character or his mental stability. Humans are not a zero-sum game.
And the truth is that John Kerry is a very, very strange individual. Bill Clinton was once described as an unusually good liar ?– Krazy John Kerry is proving to be an unusually weird one.
Even Kerry's most diehard defenders have already conceded he was not in Cambodia over Christmas 1968, regardless of what Krazy John has claimed was seared ?– seared ?– into his memory.
Now Kerry's defenders are getting a little crazy themselves. The Washington Post ignored the exposure of Kerry's Cambodian lies in favor of reporting that the military records of Larry Thurlow, a swiftboat commander and one of the authors of ''Unfit for Command,'' contradict Thurlow's own recollection of events.

I submitted no paperwork for a medal nor did I file an after action report describing the incident. To my knowledge, John Kerry was the only officer who filed a report describing his version of the incidents that occurred on the river that day.
It's too bad the Hero of the Mekong Delta didn't bother turning on his ever-present camera on the river that day ?– surely that would settle the issue. Written, directed and starring ... John Kerry!
Nor is the Washington Post the only media outlet determined to go down with the swiftboat. Two of Slate's biggest dogs criticized the vets' ad, saying:
Several Swiftvets then appear on the screen, saying they ''served with'' Kerry. This is a semantic trick. Edwards is talking about crewmates who, at one time or another, accompanied Kerry on his six-man boat. The Swiftvets served with Kerry only in the sense that they manned other boats in Vietnam.

. But mostly he just ran. When John Kerry looked out the bow of the boat and he saw tracer fire coming after him, he'd turn and run.
The strangest thing about Krazy John is not his overly vivid imagination, his propensity for self-serving fiction, or his creepy public persona. No, the most incomprehensible thing about John Kerry is the fact that anyone, Republican or Democrat, believes a single word that comes out of his mouth.



By A Republican Lapdog