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| Senator Walter Mitty - At it again |
| 2004-09-24 |
| Fred - This is a post to another blog - But it is ANOTHER Walter Mitty story. O'Reilly on Fox has also gone there. If I am out of line in linking this please remove... But it is too good to pass up! From Captain's Quarters: Was Kerry In Iraq In 1991 For Cease-Fire Accord? Frequent CQ contributor Bandit watched the O'Reilly Factor last night on Fox News, which replayed a 2001 interview with Senator John Kerry. Bandit reports that during that interview three years ago, Kerry stated that he went to Iraq on March 3rd during the signing of the cease-fire agreement that ended the first Gulf War: Leavin on a (private) Jet Plane. ..... Even more remarkably, John Kerry managed to miss no Senate votes during that week. On February 28th, Kerry voted to table an amendment during a roll-call vote. On March 6th, Kerry again managed to make a roll-call vote, this time voting against tabling an amendment by Senator Tom Harkin. It's not impossible for him to have been to Iraq and back, but it seems less likely. Bandit discovered a March 4th, 1991 Boston Globe article that narrows the timeframe more. According to the article, John Kerry attended a fundraiser for Cultural Survival, Inc. and the Rainforest Alliance (no link available): Boston Globe Newspaper March 4, 1991 Saturday it was off to "Brazil Night" at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel ballroom for a sold-out party to benefit the Cambridge-based human rights group, Cultural Survival Inc., in conjunction with the Rainforest Alliance. Simple little black dresses were de rigueur at this party. But the most chic women took the reliable style and gave it a dramatic fashion twist. They wore understated black dresses that bared the shoulder, dipped into daring v's or somehow focused on the natural and impressive art of decolletage. They made headlines with their necklines. Meanwhile, Sen. John F. Kerry, an honorary committee member, breezed in and out of the black-tie gala in minutes. The subject of fashion/style seemed an enigma to him. Kerry, wearing a business suit, stayed only long enough to accept a gift: a tin of candy called Rainforest Crunch. Saturday night would have been March 2nd in Boston. However, since Iraq is several hours ahead of the East Coast, it would already have been Sunday, March 3rd in Safwan. It means that Kerry would have had to jet out in his fashion-enigma outfit, take the long flight to Iraq just to be in the country when the accord was signed, and then jet back pronto to attend the March 6th roll-call vote. Now that's darned near impossible. No - He IS JOHN F'ING KERRY AFTER ALL, AND HE IS HIGHLY - HIGHLY SKILLED |
| Posted by:BigEd |
| #5 Doncha know - "Forest" Kerry was at all the important events of the late twentieth century. |
| Posted by: ajackson 2004-09-24 6:42:41 PM |
| #4 Kerry still doesn't understand that the information age has arrived and his lies are easily tested? Long ago he got away with this crap because it was too hard to check up on him. Now, anyone who can spell Google can do it. Years of inconsistent positions and contradictory remarks (and Senate votes) are now plain to see. Yet he still doesn't get it? Pathological liar? I'm beginning to think so -- because he just can't stop at a time when all eyes are on him and the stakes are high for him. |
| Posted by: Tom 2004-09-24 5:10:19 PM |
| #3 Christ, can't this guy ever say anything truthful. |
| Posted by: djohn66 2004-09-24 5:03:44 PM |
| #2 When youse gots a magik hat, youse can do anything. |
| Posted by: ed 2004-09-24 4:11:06 PM |
| #1 I wonder if the experience of being at the cease-fire agreement signing was seared - seared - into his memory? |
| Posted by: The Doctor 2004-09-24 3:47:38 PM |