Some translation is in order. When Kerry mentions "national security," he is talking about the Bush policy in Iraq. He is talking about globalism and neoliberalism. In this regard, there is very little difference between Bush and Kerry.

"I'm tired of Karl Rove and Dick Cheney and a bunch of people who went out of their way to avoid their chance to serve when they had the chance. I went (to Vietnam). I'm not going listen to them talk to me about patriotism," said Kerry.

In other words, Kerry committed war crimes against the Vietnamese. "Yes, I committed the same kinds of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed," Kerry said during the Winter Soldier investigation on April 22, 1971, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "I took part in search and destroy missions, in the burning of villages." For some reason he believes this is patriotic. Kerry's beef against Cheney and Rove is they did not get blood on their hands, they did not burn villages or kill civilians.

As NWOers (Neoliberal World Order), Cheney and Rove believe it is the duty of other people -- middle class and poor -- to fight and die in the wars they engineer. Kerry is oh-so anxious to send another 40,000 soldiers to Iraq to face the resistance there. It is absolutely irrelevant that he spoke out against the Vietnam war some thirty odd years ago. In fact, it can be said, Kerry's stance against the war was little more than the beginning of his political career, a first step in his ascension to the Senate, where he would ultimately embrace the NWO ideology and "get over" his involvement in the antiwar movement.

"I've seen how these people in the White House today, in their twisted sense of ethics and morality, don't think twice about challenging John McCain and what happened to him as a prisoner of war," said Kerry.

Of course, this "twisted sense of ethics and morality" has nothing to do with Bush's invasion and occupation, but rather his political opportunism in attacking McCain, who should be tried as a war criminal. At the time McCain's aircraft was shot down, on October 26, 1967, he was on a mission to bomb a power plant in the center of Hanoi. The Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, also known as the Convention on the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, stipulates that facilities necessary for the survival of civilians must not be attacked. In other words, McCain, like Kerry, is a war criminal.

In 1971, on the Dick Cavett Show, Kerry admitted such actions are war crimes. He admitted being a war criminal. "I did take part in free-fire zones, I did take part in harassment and interdiction fire, I did take part in search-and-destroy missions in which the houses of noncombatants were burned to the ground. And all of these acts, I find out later on, are contrary to the Hague and Geneva conventions and to the laws of warfare. So in that sense, anybody who took part in those, if you carry out the application of the Nuremberg Principles, is in fact guilty."

As a political opportunist, Kerry has no problem exploiting patriotic icons -- for instance, the Star Spangled Banner. "[The Bushites] don't think twice about trying to pretend to America that I somehow don't care about the defense of our nation," Kerry paraphrased at a rally in Pittsburgh.

For Kerry, and the neocon Bushites, "defense of our nation" means more Iraqis must die horrible deaths, like the defenseless civilians of Fallujah. It means the US must bring to bear the most awesome and terrible weaponry against the Iraqis because they refuse to be occupied and lorded over by Wall Street bankers and the NWO crowd in Washington. It has nothing to do with the defense of Americans living in Cleveland or Boise or Pittsburgh. In fact, if Kerry is elected, he will send 40,000 more Americans into the Iraqi maw of destruction. He will make America more vulnerable, not less.

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