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masmdu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 08:56 AM
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Kerry's Team...an Oil Man Who's Pro-GMO, a Drug War Zealot, and Pro-
Military Industrial Complex Man.

Kerry supporters is this the team of people you want as advisors to Kerry or worse, as part of his cabinet?

Richard Morningstar, Rand Beers and William Perry

"Kerry’s Foreign Policy Advisers Should Give Pause to Progressives"
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0218-13.htm

Richard Morningstar

"Morningstar, a former advisor to President Clinton on Caspian energy, was instrumental in pushing for the controversial Baku-Tiblisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline. The plan has strong support on both sides of the political aisle...
A Kerry administration with Morningstar as national security advisor could be expected to keep the BTC on track. Nothing much would change in the worlds of agribusiness and trade either. In 1999, as U.S. ambassador to the European Union, Morningstar issued a scathing attack on EU policy barring genetically modified foods. "Politics and demagoguery have completely taken over the regulatory process," he said. Bush's Agriculture Secretary, Ann Veneman, uses virtually the same exact words"

Rand Beers is another of Kerry's foreign policy advisors.

"Suffice to say that Beers was the public face of Clinton's deadly crop-fumigation program in Colombia. He once said under oath that Columbian terrorists had received training in Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan. (A claim he later had to withdraw.) "If John Kerry lets Rand Beers continue to guide his foreign policy, a Kerry administration will be no better for rural Colombians than a Bush administration," wrote Donahue. ( http://www.counterpunch.org/donahue01262004.html )Voters who want Sen. Kerry to offer a humane alternative to Bush should demand that the senator pledge now not to make Beers secretary of state."

Wm Perry.

"Rounding out Kerry's team is William Perry. As Clinton-era secretary of defense, Perry spearheaded a post-cold war plan to restructure the defense industry, but the Perry plan wasn't quite the "peace dividend" Americans had in mind. Perry pushed a government program that paid military contractors to consolidate, arguing that only vast conglomerates would have what it takes to compete in the 21st Century. The Pentagon provided partial underwriting for defense industry mergers. In what critic Bernie Sanders, I-VT, dubbed "payoffs for layoffs," Perry's Pentagon picked up the costs of moving equipment, dismantling factories and providing golden parachutes for top executives. Foreign Policy in Focus reports that Perry had to get a conflict of interest waiver before he could greenlight the merger-subsidy program. He worked as a paid consultant for Martin Marietta immediately before joining the Clinton administration. "
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latebloomer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 09:06 AM
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1. Unfortunately
only the corrupt ones are left as "viable" candidates. Both Kerry AND Edwards should "give pause to progressives".

I'm glad Kucinich is staying in the race so I can cast my protest vote.

Sigh. . .
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masmdu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 09:26 AM
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2. Kick
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Odallas Donating Member (68 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 09:31 AM
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3. On the verge of ANOTHER new day in America
After four years of large scale TAKING, our masters will give us four to eight years of small scale taking to sooth our troubled souls and quiet the ingrates who will be properly delt with during the next period of NWO ascendancy.
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Media_Lies_Daily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 09:35 AM
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4. And the alternative is another term by Junior and the NeoCons...
...is that what you want?

That's assuming we actually have elections this year. Think about it.
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emulatorloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 09:38 AM
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5. Kerry is a Prosecutor -- Beers has turned on Bush and is *valuable witness
Things are more complicated than your presentation.

Don't forget Kerry's background as a Prosecutor.

Washington Post article re Beers quitting Bush really really worth reading

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62941-2003Jun15?language=printer

Note also that Joe Wilson is on Kerry's team
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