LOOK AT KERRY'S RECORD, NOT HIS RHETORIC

Long-time listener and caller Bill Asbell e-mailed this out to local newspapers.

Dear Editor,
John Kerry said the following when he first ran for Congress, “I’m an internationalist,” he told The Harvard Crimson. “I’d like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.” He has never refuted that statement. In 1984 when running for the U.S. Senate John Kerry made American unilateral nuclear disarmament the key plank of his Senate campaign.

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This, when Ronald Reagan was rebuilding our military to put the Soviets out of business. He said about Reagan’s Administration "The defense expenditures of the Reagan administration are without any relevancy to the threat this nation is currently facing." He later said in 1990 that the Reagan Administration was a period of “moral darkness”.

In 1991, when the entire world agreed to ousting Saddam Hussein from his takeover of Kuwait, John Kerry was one of only a handful of Democrats who voted against the use of force, and he said that former President George H.W. Bush was “rushing to war”. He now uses the coalition of 1991 as one he thinks was successful, yet he voted against that action despite the coalition which included his beloved French, Germans and Russians, who are, by the way, not our "allies". They were Saddam's though.

In 1993, after the first World Trade Center bombing, Kerry proposed an amendment to slash $6 billion from the CIA and intelligence budget. He couldn’t get a single other Senator to co-sponsor his amendment, not even Ted Kennedy.

The American people have never elected President someone who, while serving in the military, chose to testify (in uniform) against a war his country was then waging, and who met with agents of the enemy on foreign soil. This is what Kerry did in 1971-73 while men were still being tortured in Hanoi and across North Vietnam being forced to hear him call them "war-criminals". The American people have never elected president someone who voted against an appropriation to support troops fighting in a war he himself had approved. Will they now?

John Kerry is lying daily on the campaign trail, scaring old people and African-Americans, and the lame-stream media gives him a pass. His record however in the Senate and before speaks volumes about how he’s more comfortable insuring that babies die before birth rather than terrorists before they strike. He has contempt for the military, like his good buddy Bubba Clinton had, for the CIA, and for genuine human rights. He claims to be an environmentalist but opposes a wind-farm on Cape Cod that might disturb his beach-front mansion’s ocean view. He doesn’t own any SUVs, “his family does”. He doesn’t give to charity, he prefers to tax others to give to bureaucracies. Kerry will be Jimmy Carter Jr. without the Southern Baptist piety. Have the anti-American Eurosocialists and useful idiots who perpetually want to relive the 1960s finally become 51% of the voting populace. We’ll find out on election day, if Kerry and Edwards’ trial lawyers don’t sue us into the new year when they lose.

Bill Asbell, Dover

Let's just hope the outcome is clear on election night. Let's also hope Kerry isn't a Jimmy Carter repeat or, worse, a repeat of LBJ.

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