The John Kerry Story

One person's terrorist is someone else's freedom fighter."

Sounds just Osama bin Laden, doesn't it?

But those are words straight from the lips of John Kerry - the candidate whose record the media establishment refuses to reveal.

But David Bossie has been keeping up with Kerry for a long time, and his new book "The Many Faces of John Kerry - Why This Masschusetts Liberal Is Wrong For America" - is perhaps the most comprehensive record yet of Kerry's post-Vietnam political life. Written about a Republican, Bossie's revelations would be like chum in shark-infested waters for bloodthirsty reporters jonesing for a scoop.

Bossie is the former chief investigator for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. In an exclusive interview he told NewsMax, "Senator Kerry was on the committee when I was the investigator heading up the Whitewater case. I met him ... but he didn't show up much."

Kerry apparently viewed his responsibility to the investigating committee the same as he views his responsibility as senator - rarely showing up for work.

By now the public is well aware of Kerry's "flip-flop" image, particularly on the war in Iraq.

What most people don't know is that Kerry's reversal on Iraq is just one small waffle among a huge stack, slathered on both sides with thick, dripping hypocrisy.

Many others have changed their positions on the war in Iraq. What differentiates Kerry, however, is that he flips back and forth, sometimes within months, depending on whom he is speaking to at the moment.

"He is very much a chameleon," Bossie told NewsMax, "someone who says and uses campaign rhetoric depending on who he's talking to. If he's talking to a more liberal group, he spouts his liberal ideology very freely. But if it's a group that he just needs their votes, he tries to look like some moderate mainstream guy - and he's simply not.

"When you're ranked as the number one most liberal senator by National Journal [a nonpartisan publication], left of Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton, you're doing it."

It is difficult to be more of a leftist than than Kennedy and Clinton, noted Bossie, and even harder to hide it.

But as a leftist in moderate clothing, that's what Kerry seems to be doing - and doing it well, pulling the thick, political wool over the eyes of many of his supporters.

He couldn't do it without help. Though Bossie has recorded more than 60 flip-flops in John Kerry's political career, the public remains oblivious to many of the most atrocious.

"It's up to the Bush people [to expose Kerry]," said Bossie. "He's getting a free ride because the mainstream elite media hate President Bush and desperately want him to lose. And I believe they aren't doing their jobs correctly."

Kerry's flips are not just issues on which reasonable people change their minds in light of new information. Kerry's flips include issues such as the death penalty and abortion, which typically reflect a person's core values.

In 1996, writes Bossie, Kerry criticized Massachusetts Gov. William Weld for supporting the death penalty by saying, "You can change your mind on things, but not on life-and-death issues." But by December 2002, Kerry was saying to NBC that he "always had supported sentencing terrorists to death."

And though most people who change their minds on abortion move to the more conservative position, Kerry has moved the opposite direction.

Even as new scientific evidence proving human fetuses to be viable human beings has emerged over the years since the Roe vs. Wade decision, Kerry has moved further to the left on abortion.

He now supports abortion in all forms, at any time, including partial-birth abortion. He even opposes measures to require pregnant minors to give parental notification or consent before getting an abortion, as they would to have their ears pierced.

Yet Bossie reveals the side of Kerry that once was more opposed to the practice. "I would say also that it's a tragic day in the lives of everybody when abortion is looked on as an alternative to having a child. I think that's wrong. It should be the very last thing if it has to be anything, and I say that not just because I'm opposed to abortion but because I think that's common sense," Kerry told the Lowell Sun in 1972.

Further, Bossie describes how Kerry, right after President Bush signed a law banning partial-birth abortion, denied the very existence of the procedure. "There is no such thing as a partial birth. ... There's nothing partial about their effort to undo Roe v. Wade," Kerry proclaimed.

On issue after issue, Bossie demonstrates how Kerry always wants it both ways - and it takes nothing less than the senator's particular brand of duplicity to have it both ways. How else could a soldier of four months become a war hero after committing what he describes as "atrocities"? Or take credit for his opponent's ideas in between denouncing them?

After the Democrats' huge losses of 2000 and 2002, many a pundit was amazed to see them again pick as their nominee a candidate with not just the same stiff, elitest condescension as the notoriously wooden Al Gore, but who is clearly even more liberal and out of touch with mainstream Americans than the Dems' failed 2000 candidate. But as Bossie reveals, a brief jaunt through Kerry's early background makes it clear that those aren't the only characteristics the candidate and the former candidate share.

JFK: 'Just for Kerry'

As a baby boomer coming to age in the "Born To Be Wild" '60s, Kerry has always believed he was born to be president. As much as Al Gore believed he was born to be president, having been groomed for it most of his life by his senator father, Kerry has been focused on what he's always believed to be his destiny nearly since childhood, when he used to have conversations about foreign policy via telephone with his father from his Swiss boarding school dorm room.

Bossie has Kerry's old school chums on record:

"It was an aura he created," said Harvey Bundy, a Chicago money manager and former Kerry roommate at Yale. "We sat around the room, talking about 'what are our positions going to be in John's cabinet.' I wish I could forecast the market as well."

Another contemporary remarked: "He was obsessed by politics to the exclusion of all else. At that age (freshman year of college), it's a bit creepy."

So, how creepy is it at 13? At that age, Kerry "was mocked by some ... as a Kennedy wannabe," the Boston Globe reported. "He'd sign his papers and wear his Oxford cotton shirts embossed with his initials, "JFK" as if the political affinity were preordained. Behind his back, classmates rolled their eyes and, as one said, joked that the initials stood for 'Just for Kerry.'"

Bossie's description of Kerry's exit from Vietnam demonstrates his desperate ambition to find that first stepping stone to the presidency. Like President Bush, Kerry was honorably discharged early - but eight months early, after serving only four months of the normal one-year tour in Vietnam. (Bossie also details why Bush was not allowed to serve in Vietnam, even though he volunteered to go.)

Kerry rushed back to Massachusetts to give new meaning to the terms "carpetbagger" and "district shopping," trying on "congressional districts like suits off the rack," the Boston Globe reported. "In less than two months in early 1972, the anti-war leader called three different districts in Massachusetts home. To this day he bears the brand of opportunist from that brazen district-hopping, which he acknowledges as part of his political 'baggage.'"

Great News for Pedophiles, Murderers and Rapists

Kerry's early years as a politician in Massachusetts are anything but comforting. Bossie discloses these highlights:

As assistant district attorney in Middlesex County (a title he somehow achieved five months after passing the bar exam), his "overhaul" saw the release of convicted pedophile Robert Sedach, who later kidnapped and sexually assaulted a young boy. Later, writes Bossie, the Dukakis-Kerry administration would issue furloughs for 287 sex offenders, 82 first-degree murderers and 184 second-degree murderers.

As Michael Dukakis' lieutenant governor, Kerry supported the furlough program that turned Willie Horton loose on two more victims.

Kerry presided over an increase in parole rates from 50 percent to 58 percent, during which time rapes increased from 1,464 a year to 1,627. Massachusetts became the country's car-theft capital, with twice the average of all 50 states plus the District of Columbia, reported the Christian Science Monitor in November 1984. Perhaps most worrisome of all, Kerry has opposed preventive legislation for the threat of nuclear war since 1982, as Bossie records in Kerry's own words.

"During my 1982 campaign, I called on the state to abandon planning for nuclear evacuation, calling such evacuation plans a sham intended to deceive Americans into believing they could survive a nuclear war," he said in a Senate campaign questionnaire in 1984.

His actions held true to his words on this issue.

"As Lieutenant Governor, I have carried forward my campaign promise that the Commonwealth cease planning for evacuation and relocation during a nuclear war, and drafted an Executive Order condemning such planning," he said in the 1984 Senate questionnaire. The ultra-liberal Dukakis signed the order into law.

From marriage-penalty tax relief to the Patriot Act to veterans' benefits and on and on, Kerry votes against legislation and then makes the outrageous claims not only of having supported it, but also to have always been an outspoken champion of the issue in question. All the while he accuses his opponents of not supporting the very issues they have purposely acted to support. Or vice versa - he claims one position and then votes the other, if he bothers to show up for the vote at all. Though critics complain about Kerry's constant absenteeism in an election year, Bossie reveals that Kerry's penchant for being a no-show is nothing new - even when it comes to the very legislation Kerry himself sponsored.

Kerry on Taxes

Has voted since 1993 for a stunning $1.7 trillion in tax increases on tobacco, gasoline, income and other items.

Voted in 1995 for a resolution that declared a middle-class tax cut unwise.

Voted against marriage-penalty tax relief in 1998, and then told MSNBC in 2003 that he had fought long and hard to get rid of the tax.

Lambastes President Bush's tax relief as being too large and too beneficial to "the rich," though it is smaller than those instituted by Kerry's hero, John F. Kennedy, and even though the group of zero-tax filers grew from 29 million in 2000 to a record 44 million in 2004, a huge increase.

Refused to pay $600 more in taxes, even though Massachusetts law allows citizens two rates to choose from when paying their taxes. Kerry wants to take more Americans' money without giving up more of his.

Kerry on Faith-based Programs

Initially, Kerry said that Bush's creation of the Centers for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives had "the potential to be helpful. But one month later Kerry even claimed credit as the first lawmaker to offer fiath-based initiatives. "George W. may be doing it now, but I was the first person to offer faith-based programs," he told the Boston Globe.

But he changed directions 180 degrees when he began campaigning for president. Bossie writes that by November of 2003, Kerry was bad-mouthing Bush's faith-based initiatives, saying they impinged on the Constitution's division of church and state. He then further confused his stance saying that he supports faith-based initiatives "as long as they don't have a religious aspect," as he told the Associated Press in December 2003.

Kerry on Veterans' Benefits

Though Kerry has accused the Bush administration of withholding veterans' benefits and funding, Bush has increased funding and benefits for veterans and related programs. Bossie notes an Annenberg Center FactCheck report: "Funding for veterans is going up twice as fast under Bush as it did under Clinton. And the number of veterans getting health benefits is going up 25 percent under Bush's budgets. That's hardly a cut."

Meanwhile, Bossie's account of Kerry's record on the issue shows a senator who votes against veterans:

Against an amendment that would have increased funding for veterans' medical care by $650 million in 2001.

Against an amendment that would have reallocated $210 million for veterans' medial benefits, and $10 million for construction of veterans' extended-care facilities.

Against an amendment offered by Sen. John McCain to require equal access to health care for all veterans in 1996 - Kerry was one of only 18 senators to vote against the measure. Kerry's Campaign Finance Scandals

Bossie's book contains a wealth of details on Kerry's addiction to money. Money is the name of the game for this senator, however he can get it - whether by marriage, "by hook or by crook," as the old saying goes.

Even if that crook happens to be Bill Clinton's favorite Chinese donor, Johnny Chung, who "visited the Clinton White House a total of 49 times and moved on to become a central figure in that administration's foreign money scandals, eventually pleading guilty to funneling $28,000 in illegal foreign contributions to the campaigns of Bill Clinton and John Kerry."

And sometimes Chung brought a friend in need - as with Hong Kong businesswoman Liu Chao-ying, who U.S. intelligence later discovered to be a lieutenant colonel in the People's Liberation Army and a vice president of a Chinese government-owned aerospace firm.

Liu wanted her company on the New York Stock Exchange, and Bossie details how happy Kerry was to help. And how the two celebrated when Liu tapped her Chinese intelligence-funded bank account to throw Kerry a big fat thank-you fund-raiser at the Beverly Hills Hotel to show her gratitude.

But Bossie's just getting warmed up describing that little transaction. Just as damning was Kerry's relationship with a key figure in the largest banking scandal in history - the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. A Middle Eastern financial institution, BCCI's customers included "arms merchants, drug dealers, despots such as (Manuel) Noriega, and intelligence agencies."

CEO Paul, who now sits in a federal prison in Miami, Florida, is also a former chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee - appointed by Kerry - and a friend.

Of Kerry, Paul told Bossie, "I don't know if I would vote for him. I knew Kerry well, but I don't think he has the intellect of Colin Powell or Condoleezza Rice," and Kerry "could change his opinion on a dime."

So when Kerry boldly makes the claim: "Let me tell you something, for 35 years I've been standing up and fighting against those special interests. I'm the only United Sates senator currently serving who has run four times ...who's voluntarily run for reelection not with special interest money, not with PAC money, not with soft money..." - it's all the more outrageous.

The truth is Kerry is "the Senate's number one recipient of individual campaign contributions from paid lobbyists," taking in more money - almost $640,000 - from them in the last 15 years than any other senator in Washington, and more than $6.3 million from lawyers since 1989. His presidential campaign has received nearly $3.5 million, making Kerry, long an opponent of tort reform (though he recently claimed he was now for tort reform), the second-highest recipient of money from trial lawyers of all U.S. senators.

As Sen. Zell Miller, D-Ga., puts it, Kerry is the "Olympic Gold Medalist when it comes to special interest money."

Kerry on Terrorism

There is, however, one issue on which Kerry has almost never switched his position, one that would be terrifying under a Kerry presidency: He has nearly always taken the side of America's enemies.

Bossie describes how Radio Pyongyang, the official mouthpiece of the North Korean communist dictatorship, broadcasts Kerry's speeches in "glowing terms" and writes, "Pyongyang seems to hope victory for the Democratic candidate on November 2 would lead to a softening in U.S. policy towards the country's nuclear weapons program."

And for all of McCain's defending of Kerry against negative campaign ads, Bossie quotes his words from earlier years about Kerry's pro-communist activity, saying publicly that Kerry's anti-war rhetoric was "the most effective propaganda [North Vietnamese captors] had to use against us ... bombarding us with anti-war quotes." While McCain suffered for six years in the infamous Hanoi Hilton, North Vietnamese guards would taunt him and other prisoners with anti-war rhetoric from Kerry and others, Bossie writes.

Even since 9/11, Kerry's anti-American approach to foreign enemies has not changed. After proposing billions of dollars in cuts to America's intelligence and defense after each of the terrorist attacks against America throughout the '90s, Kerry even proposed a $10 billion cut after 9/11 - $150 million of it just two short months after the attack.

The cuts, writes Bossie, formed Kerry's defense "strategy," according to his campaign. "In all, Kerry has voted to cut, transfer, or otherwise reduce the defense budget over the years at least 38 times - including cuts in many weapons systems that have saved the lives of many U.S. soldiers in military engagements like Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere."

Even Kerry's Democrat colleagues in the Senate, including decorated World War II veteran Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz.) and Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), have blasted him for his proposed cuts. They say that Kerry was ignoring threats by North Korea and terrorism against "American citizens and property," and that he was trying to put "blindfolds over our pilots' eyes," something one can easily picture the hijackers doing on the 9/11 flights. Notes Bossie, even Ted Kennedy voted against some of Kerry's proposed cuts in defense and intelligence.

To add insult to injury, Kerry had the audacity to tell NBC News as recently as January that the terrorist threat against America was "exaggerated." In April 2004 on National Public Radio, he defended a Muslim extremist in Iraq who was responsible for terrorists killing scores of American troops.

In one of his fastest flips on record, it didn't take Kerry but three weeks to violate a pledge he made not to attack President Bush during a time of war. And when the images from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal surfaced, the Kerry campaign's "first instinct" was to exploit them for profit - urging supporters to send money as a sign of support for Kerry's demand that Rumsfeld resign over the scandal.

Completely unashamed of his anti-American foreign policy sentiments, Kerry never attempts to deny them, but rather freely admits his willingness to hand over control of America's military to other countries and the U.N. Bossie quotes the Harvard Crimson, "Kerry said that the United Nations should have control over most of our foreign military operations." What Kerry seems less proud to say is that he's an American. Rather, "I'm an internationalist," he proclaims. "I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations."

And that is exactly what we will see under a Kerry Presidency, as Bossie convincingly lays out.

Fact after damning fact, Bossie's expose on Kerry lays his verbal record side by side with his voting record - and the record speaks for itself. This is a candidate who believes he is entitled to the presidency and is willing to do whatever it takes to get it - even if that means sacrificing America itself.

It's a record Kerry must have already known the media would give him a pass on - knowing the facts of his life were just lying there for the taking by any reporter who chose to dig a little.

"The bottom line is ... it's up to the national media to hold him accountable, and I don't have a lot of confidence that they're going to do that. ...He's very systematic and calculating...He's someone who tries to usurp and steal republican ideas and claim credit for things he didn't' have anything to do with."

The candidate who has to steal his slogans from the Bush campaign because he can't come up with any on his own gets his ideas about what's good for the country from America's enemies, who have lined up for blocks to support Kerry - from Fidel Castro to North Korea's tyrannical dictator to the Communist Party to backstabbing French and German socialists and a Sandinista thug. Americans should be warned; they are alliances Kerry stands ready to virtually hand U.S. sovereignty to as President. And Bossie has him on record.