John R. Houk
© December 29, 2016
We know that John Kerry has a sketchy past as an American
Patriot. Although the U.S. Navy sticks to the official records on Kerry’s
medals and service in Vietnam. There seems to be some flaws in both the
official record and anti-Kerry eyewitness accounts of faked Kerry heroism.
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Kerry became the leader of Vietnam
Veterans Against the War after being discharged, the Post reported. In
testimony to Congress, he relayed accounts by his VVAW comrades of having
“personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads …
razed villages in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan …”
Later, it was shown that many of
the stories on which Kerry based this testimony were false, some told by people
who had stolen the identities of real GIs, the Post printed on Aug. 24, 2004.
Kerry was not implicated.
As for claims in the viral email
about his military record, much of this was discussed during the campaign after
the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth questioned Kerry’s accounts and whether
he deserved any of the commendations he received.
But the veterans who accused Kerry
were contradicted by numerous former crewmen of Kerry’s, and by Navy records,
according to FactCheck.org, a nonpartisan
[Blog Editor: Link is by Editor and explains reliability fact checking
websites] fact-finding project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at
the University of Pennsylvania, which researched the claims back in 2004.
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Kerry received a Purple Heart after
being wounded in December 1968 when he got hit by schrapnel. The Boston Globe
quoted William Schachte, who oversaw the mission, as saying it “was not a very
serious wound.”
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In an affidavit, physician Lewis
Letson said he treated Kerry and said Kerry’s wound was self-inflicted when his
gun jammed and he threw a grenade at an object, which sprayed the area with
shrapnel. Kerry’s medical records show that he was treated by J.C. Carreon (who
has since died). Letson said it common practice for medics to sign the
paperwork for the attending physician.
Letson said in his affidavit that
“the crewman with Kerry told me there was no hostile fire, and that Kerry had
inadvertently wounded himself with an M-79 grenade.” But the crewmen with Kerry
that day deny ever talking to Letson, FactCheck.org reported.
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Kerry earned his Silver Star later
in February when he jumped onto the beach from his boat to chase and shoot a
guerrilla who had a rocket launcher and who, Kerry thought, was about to fire a
rocket at Kerry’s boat. According to the Boston Globe, another member of the
crew on Kerry’s boat — Frederic Short, with whom Kerry had not talked for 34
years until being contacted by the Globe reporter — confirmed the account and
said there was no doubt Kerry’s action saved the boat and crew.
…
Although Snopes.com labels attacks
on Kerry’s medals being earned under “fishy” circumstances as “false,”
FactCheck.org said in 2004, “at this point, 35 years later and half a world
away, we see no way to resolve which of these versions of reality is closer to
the truth.” -- READ ENTIRETY (Fact Check: John Kerry's war accounts
and whether he deserved commendations still being called into question;
By Carole Fader; Jacksonville.com;
1/3/13 05:05 pm)
And so, Kerry won some medals fraudulently and for actual
acts of heroism. A LIE IS STILL A LIE!
Kerry then went to disrespect those medals fraudulently or
correctly earned by trashing his nation by painting a picture that the entire
U.S. Military as a band of murderers and rapists. I can confidently speculate
some of this nefarious stuff Kerry preached against America happened, but I can
also confidently speculate the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Regulars committed more and worse
atrocities than any group of U.S. Military fellows. War is war and
unfortunately vengeance is a part of war on the affected individual soldier.
The point is John Kerry is a Left Winger willing to say or
do anything to support his idiotic worldview. With that in mind, read Ben
Shapiro’s “10 Lies Secretary of State Kerry Told …” in the Obama
Administration’s betrayal of Israel.
JRH 12/29/16
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10 Lies Secretary of State Kerry Told During His Big
Middle East Peace Speech
By BEN SHAPIRO
DECEMBER 28, 2016
On Wednesday,
Secretary of State John Kerry gave a speech on his proposed plan for peace
between Israelis and Arabs. His plan: blame the Jews, pretend that Palestinian
terrorism and incitement isn’t representative of the actual Palestinian
government, and then blather for 69 more minutes. His speech razed facts to the
ground in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan.
Here were ten of the worst lies and lies-by-omission Kerry
purveyed in his ode to lying and self-indulgence:
1. Equating Jewish Settlements and Palestinian Terrorism. Israel
has been wracked by a wave of stabbings and shootings and rocket attacks from
Palestinian terrorists over the last two years. Kerry spent a few minutes on
that, but only in order to draw moral equivalence with Jews building additional
bathrooms in East Jerusalem, the capital of Israel. “The truth is that trends
on the ground, violence, terrorism, settlement expansion, and the seemingly
endless occupation, they are combining to destroy hopes for peace on both
sides,” Kerry said. This is nonsense. Before there were any Jewish
settlements – when Israel did not control Judea, Samaria, or Gaza – the
Palestine Liberation Organization called for the “liberation” of Palestine,
meaning the complete destruction of Israel. The problem isn’t people
building homes. It’s Palestinians murdering Jews, and refusing to accept that any home
built by a Jew ought to exist in the Middle East. [Bold text last sentence is Editor’s]
2. “If The Choice Is One State, Israel Can Either Be
Jewish Or Democratic. It Cannot Be Both.” This is patently absurd.
There has been one state in the area between the Jordan and the Mediterranean
for some 50 years. That state has been democratic. This lie rests on two absurd
contentions: first, that if Israel were to annex all Judea and Samaria, Jews
would be outnumbered by Arabs; second, that if Israel were to annex all lands,
Israel would have to grant all Palestinian Arabs full citizenship or face
status as an apartheid state. The first claim is simply false – Jews outnumber
Palestinian Arabs outside of the Gaza Strip by a factor of two-to-one, and Jews
now have the equivalent birth rate of Palestinian Arabs, and will soon have a
higher birth rate, as Caroline Glick points out,
meaning that Jewish majority status will increase, not decrease. Second, the
United States does not offer citizenship to all the people living within its
borders, or over territories over which it has sovereignty. Puerto Rico
is governed semi-autonomously, but citizens of Puerto Rico cannot vote in
presidential elections in the United States. Israel could easily grant green
cards to Palestinian residents while also giving them local control of their
governance without a national vote.
3. Peace Will Only Be Realized With a Palestinian Terror
State. The notion that peace depends on the establishment of a
Palestinian terror state – and that’s what will be established, given that the
unity government of the Palestinians now includes Hamas and Islamic Jihad
alongside Fatah – is asinine. Israel has had to blockade Gaza because Hamas
controls it, and is attempting to take military shipments from Iran. Adding
another Iran-backed terror proxy state to the Middle Eastern map is a great way
to encourage a two-front war against Israel, given the presence of
Hezbollahstan on Israel’s northern border.
4. “No American Administration Has Done More For The
Security of Israel Than Barack Obama’s.” To put it mildly, LOL.
LOLOLOLOLOL. [Bold text after 1st line is Editor’s] Funny
guy, this Kerry. Here’s a timeline of Obama’s
“support” for Israel. That timeline doesn’t even include the Iran nuclear deal
or the current UN resolution hubbub.
5. Israeli Intransigence Is The Problem. Nope.
Not even close. In 2008, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered 94.2
percent of Judea and Samaria to the Palestinians, a corridor that would link
that territory to the Gaza Strip, land swaps that would increase Palestinian
land holdings, a formula for division of Jerusalem. Abbas refused the deal. In
2000, Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered a similar deal. Yassar Arafat refused
it. Palestinians have never accepted any deal offered by the Israelis. [Bold
text this line is Editor’s] Israelis continue to offer. But the problem is
clearly the mean, nasty Israelis. And by the way, that awful Netanyahu fellow
offered to freeze settlements early in the Obama administration, and the
Palestinians responded with violence.
6. Settlements Are Illegal. No, they aren’t.
Kerry declared over and over that Israelis settling east of the so-called green
line are living there illegally. That’s patent nonsense. He also
suggested that no Jews would be allowed to live inside a new Palestinian state,
because Jews would object – ignoring, of course, that Palestinians would
quickly murder any Jew remaining in a Palestinian state, and Jews have a slight
objection to being murdered. Right now, over a million Arabs live inside
Israel. Virtually no Jews live in the Muslim world because they were expelled,
and quickly absorbed into Israel.
7. Equating Palestinian Government With Israeli
Government. Perhaps the most insane spectacle was Kerry suggesting
that the Netanyahu government is beholden to the “most extreme elements” in
Israeli politics, while pooh-poohing Palestinian government support for
terrorism. Kerry suggested that Hamas was a troublesome rogue group as opposed
to an integral part of the Palestinian unity government.
8. Israel As Purported Burden To The United States. Kerry
spent serious time talking about how the United States had subsumed its own
interests in order to give military aid to Israel. Of course, the Obama
administration has also given aid to the Palestinian unity terror government,
and attempted to block weapons shipments in the middle of the Gaza terror war.
And even the Obama administration says that such aid is good for the United States defense
industry; a huge percentage of American aid to Israel is a subsidy to domestic
defense contractors. Israel is America’s only democratic ally in the region.
9. The UN Resolution Changed Nothing. Kerry kept
stating that the UN resolution didn’t do much to change the status quo. That’s
false. This UN resolution said that all territories outside
the 1949 Israel armistice lines – the “Auschwitz borders” – are occupied,
including Jerusalem and holy sites like the Western Wall. It calls for all
settlements in those areas “flagrant” violations of international law. There’s
a reason Kerry pushed this thing through: of course it changes
things.
10. The Obama Administration’s Maneuvers Help Peace. This
is the opposite of the truth. America’s position for two decades has been that
it would not cram down a peace deal on the Israelis and Palestinians – all
issues would have to be resolved through bilateral negotiations. By placing
the onus for all concessions on Israel and making Israel subject to the
possibility of blowback from the International Court of Justice, Obama just
allowed Palestinians to abandon any pretense at negotiations and stand on their
newfound “rights.” [Bold text last line is Editor’s]
Kerry’s speech was chock full of lies. [This bold text is
Editor’s] But here’s the good news: nobody will remember it a month from
now, just as nobody will remember John Kerry’s legacy beyond his slander of
American soldiers in Vietnam.
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John Kerry Lies to Support Leftist Worldview
John R. Houk
© December 29, 2016
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10 Lies Secretary of State Kerry Told During His Big Middle East
Peace Speech
