{"id":59031,"date":"2015-03-31T08:53:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T12:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59031"},"modified":"2015-04-01T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T15:51:00","slug":"old-news-but-timely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59031","title":{"rendered":"Old News, But Timely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Iron Jaw Kerry facing down Iran over them dang old nuke things it is with a sort of\u00a0 giggle that I offer up\u00a0 a Story I stumbled across just today from 2004. It HAS been said that laughter is the best medicine. It&#8217;s that or break my diabetic beer fast a few days early. And, to be candid, I&#8217;d forgotten this part of his illustrious career.<\/p>\n<p>So from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/2004-02-17\/news\/when-john-kerry-s-courage-went-m-i-a\/\">Village Voice, no less, a tale celebrating John Kerry, the flawed hero<\/a>. Join me in being deeply thrilled that this a*hole is &#8220;leading the charge&#8221; to protect the world from a nuclear Iran. Yeah, I&#8217;m feeling MUCH better now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Senator John Kerry, a decorated battle veteran, was courageous as a navy lieutenant in the Vietnam War. But he was not so courageous more than two decades later, when he covered up voluminous evidence that a significant number of live American prisoners\u2014perhaps hundreds\u2014were never acknowledged or returned after the war-ending treaty was signed in January 1973.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Massachusetts senator, now seeking the presidency, carried out this subterfuge a little over a decade ago\u2014 shredding documents, suppressing testimony, and sanitizing the committee&#8217;s final report\u2014when he was chairman of the Senate Select Committee on P.O.W.\/ M.I.A. Affairs.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Before anyone misinterprets this post I should note that I was at the Kerry Lied Rally that also happened in &#8217;04, and count some of the Swift Boat folks that served with, and condemned him, as friends.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Iron Jaw Kerry facing down Iran over them dang old nuke things it is with &hellip; <a title=\"Old News, But Timely\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59031\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Old News, But Timely<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}