On April 22 1971 Kerry became the first Vietnam veteran to testify before Congress about the war, when he appeared before a Senate committee. He was still a member of the United States Navy Reserve, holding the rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade.
[typography font="Ubuntu Condensed" size="24" size_format="px"]Obama considering John Kerry for defense secretary[/typography]
President Obama is considering asking Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) to serve as his next defense secretary, part of an extensive rearrangement of his national security team that will include a permanent replacement for former CIA director David H. Petraeus.
The traitorous liar has been a good little socialist soldier and deserves attention from the regime, but if obama picks John Kerry for SecDef, he will be doing so strictly to thumb his nose at every man and woman who has served. Kerry and Jane Fonda fall into the same category of traitor. What a slap in the face.
On NBC’s Meet The Press in 1971, Kerry was asked whether he had personally committed atrocities in Vietnam. He responded:
“There are all kinds of atrocities, and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed in that I took part in shootings in free fire zones. I conducted harassment and interdiction fire. I used 50 calibre machine guns, which we were granted and ordered to use, which were our only weapon against people. I took part in search and destroy missions, in the burning of villages. All of this is contrary to the laws of warfare, all of this is contrary to the Geneva Conventions and all of this is ordered as a matter of written established policy by the government of the United States from the top down. And I believe that the men who designed these, the men who designed the free fire zone, the men who ordered us, the men who signed off the air raid strike areas, I think these men, by the letter of the law, the same letter of the law that tried Lieutenant Calley, are war criminals.
He knows that will just piss us off – suprised Jane not getting sec of state -
IF he goes through with it I can’t imagine the backlash… or not. Maybe people are used to sitting down and taking whatever the regime dishes out now…
As if “accidentally” losing and destroying all those military ballots wasn’t enough. Why doesn’t the Obama Admin all take a giant shit on the flag, the original copy of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, all at once on national TV?
Yeah, get it over with. Let’s have it, all. Now. Bastards.
hahahaha! Oh, wait. This is for real.
Fuck.
One would have thought this a joke written for SNL or something.
Sounds like an Onion piece, doesn’t it?
That’s how it makes me feel.
Why couldn’t he pick someone like Bob Kerrey?
Why couldn’t he pick ANYONE but JohnFrickin’Kerry?
Not happened yet; we’ll see…
Yeah, good luck with Senate confirmation, Kerry.
Actually, I think he will receive Senate confirmation without issue. O’s nominee for Sec of State is a disaster too. That one might be a little harder. I came home last night and saw the pictures of both faces on the news channel my husband was watching. I busted out laughing at the absolute absurdity and started singing the New Obama Administration theme song…. it’s that circus song, Entry of the Gladiators, or as the kids would know it ‘Circus Afro’ from Madagascar.
You can’t make this $hit up. What a joke.
The Senate is filled with donkeys, what’s not for them to like about Kerry?
It is absurd! The entire thing is a circus, so nice musical choice!
he has not been able to select anyone smarter than himself to avoid a challenge – under that one rule you will not see anyone qualified selected for any positions – this is why we went so far down last 4 years – no one that has a clue is in charge of anything – just think what he will do to the Supreme Court – I am just waiting for him to put a cartoon character in charge of something, I bet it is coming soon