Reply #99: Hey seventhson do you know what was going here with this [View All]

I saw the report about Kerrys deals with land deals in Nam but can't seem to find it right now, anyway thought you might know, anyway, thanks for the posts, people are listening, even while others attack.
I will go go eat my hat now, its time for lunch

http://www.bidness.com/dega/actionalert.html
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While demanding increased trade, Hanoi has conducted a media blitz covering up its litany of human rights abuses against the Montagnards and other Vietnamese peoples. SRV President Tran Duc Luong condemned the recently passed Vietnam Human Rights Act, HR 2833 linking improved human rights to increased trade as "brazen interference" in the affairs of Vietnam. Passed in House by a vote of 410 to 1, this Act is now frozen in the Senate by Senator John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, and a long-time advocate for the Vietnamese communist government. Mr. Kerry seemingly cares more for a government that sponsors terrorism than for our allies who are the victims of terrorism.
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Another distortion is the newspapers' contention that the Vietnam Human Rights Act failed to pass the U.S. Senate. In truth, one senator, John Kerry of Massachusetts, is keeping the bill from a vote. In a behind-the-scenes maneuver, Mr. Kerry blocked the bill from coming to the Senate floor, where it surely would pass, as it did overwhelmingly in the House of Representatives.
In its attempt to slander Mr. Benge and cover up the truth of who he is and the abuse of the Montagnards, the Vietnamese embassy failed to mention another important fact: Mr. Benge is an expert witness concerning Vietnamese human rights violations. He was held in a North Vietnamese communist prison, where he was tortured, held in solitary confinement, starved and beaten, from 1968 to 1973. This was in violation of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, which Vietnam signed. Mr. Benge also buried fellow prisoners who died of abuse and deliberate neglect at the hands of the North Vietnamese government. Mr. Benge was a noncombatant when he was captured — a civilian working to help the Montagnards and Vietnamese as a member of the U.S. Agency for International Development, the same agency to which Vietnam now has its hand out for assistance.
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