The scariest thing about watching the Vietnam era end and roll into the 1980’s is that many of those who did the most to hurt our soldiers and help our enemies suddenly became respected political figures in the Democratic party. It’s almost funny to hear the now-fashionable presentation, “How dare you question my patriotism?” coming from politicians who actually collaborated with our enemies only a few decades ago.

Sadly, the public has such a short attention span that most Americans remain largely unaware that many of our elected officials come from this collaborationist brood.

If you find Kerry’s constant self-serving references to his Vietnam service annoying today, you should look back to 1985, when the newly elected senator traveled to Nicaragua to help the Soviet-backed Communist regime there. A Washington Post reported memorialized Kerry’s 18 landing to Managua: ” ‘Look at it,’ Kerry said as their plane touched down here Thursday night. ‘It reminds me so much of Vietnam. The same lushness, the tree lines.’ ”

And as Kerry would portray it, the same quagmire and the same war atrocities. Kerry’s trip to Managua was intended to score a propaganda coup against Ronald Reagan, who had just been reelected in a landslide. Reagan had been backing the counter-insurgency to keep the Soviets from exploiting the strategic foothold his predecessor, Jimmy Carter, had given them in the Americas.

Predictably, Kerry and Democratic senator Tom Harkin of Iowa took the other side of the debate from Reagan. They went to Managua to meet with Communist dictator Daniel Ortega and negotiate a “cease-fire” that was contrary at the time to American policy and interests. Kerry, who would denounce the anti-Communist fighters as “death squads” while visiting and cavorting with America’s enemy, sought a “peace” agreement favorable to the Communists that he could take back to Washington and throw in Reagan’s face. The White House denounced it as a “propaganda initiative”.

The following week after his return, Kerry would praise this phony plan he had brought back, which would have cut off all funding for the anti-Soviet resistance, handing total victory to the Communists and leaving America vulnerable in its own hemisphere.

“I share with this body the aide-memoire which was presented to us by President Ortega,” he said of the pro-Communist peace plan. “Here is a guarantee of the security interest of the US…My generation, a lot of us grew up with the phrase ‘give peace a chance’ as part of a song that captured a lot of peoples’ imagination. I hope that the president of the US will give peace a chance.”

Fortunately, Reagan ignored this advice from the democrats. His intrasigence caused Harkin to complain of the administration,”They just have an ideological fanaticism with respect to Nicaragua that goes beyond any bonds of reasonableness.”

Senator Kerry, free your 180!

This is the section on the 180 form *that Kerry probably checked*:

This is not full disclosure, there are over 100 pages missing from this file.

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