Bush & the Unification Church

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http://www.counterpunch.org/hill01042003.html

Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory
Bush's Armageddon Obsession, Revisited

by MICHAEL ORTIZ HILL

"We are lived by forces we scarcely understand," wrote W.H. Auden. What forces live us now as America again torques toward war?

George W. Bush is certainly the plaything of such forces as the geopolitics of oil but it seems that he is susceptible to other even darker archetypal concerns. Let me be blunt. The man is delusional and the shape of his delusion is specifically apocalyptic in belief and intent. That Bush would attack so many vital systems on so many fronts from foreign policy to the environment may seem confusing from the point of view of realpolitik but becomes transparent in terms of the apocalyptic worldview to which he subscribes. All systems are supposed to go down so the Messiah can come and Bush, seemingly, has taken on the role of the one who brings this to pass.

The Reverend Billy Graham taught Bush to live in anticipation of the Second Coming but it was his friendship with Dr. Tony Evans that shaped Bush's political understanding of how to deport himself in an apocalyptic era. Dr. Evans, the pastor of a large Dallas church and a founder of the Promise Keepers movement taught Bush about "how the world should be seen from a divine viewpoint," according to Dr. Martin Hawkins, Evans assistant pastor.

S.R. Shearer of Antipas Ministries writes, "Most of the leaders of the Promise Keepers embrace a doctrine of 'end time' (eschatology), known as 'dominionim.' Dominionism pictures the seizure of earthly (temporal) power by the 'people of God' as the only means through which the world can be rescued.... It is the eschatology that Bush has imbibed; an eschatology through which he has gradually (and easily) come to see himself as an agent of God who has been called by him to 'restore the earth to God's control', a 'chosen vessel', so to speak, to bring in the Restoration of All Thingss." Shearer calls this delusion, "Messianic leadership"-- that is to say usurping the role usually ascribed to the Messiah.

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1. Moon Shadow

http://www.counterpunch.org/madsen01142003.html

Moon Shadow
The Rev, Bush & North Korea

by WAYNE MADSEN

When President Bush added North Korea to his list of "Axis of Evil" nations, the influence of the self-declared reincarnation of Jesus Christ, the "Reverend" Sun Myung Moon of the Unification Church, loomed largely over the White House decision-making process. The decision by Bush to throw into the trash heap of history eight years of a joint American-South Korean-Japanese dialogue with the reclusive Communist regime would ultimately result in Pyongyang returning to using the rhetoric of bygone years. Just as the Bush administration reintroduced to regular use the terms "segregation," "civil rights," and "ban on abortions," the terms "demilitarized zone," "Panmunjom," and "38th parallel" would also re-enter the American political lexicon.

Bush, a self-described "born again Christian" who has maintained close links to Moon, hired David Frum as one of his speechwriters. Frum apparently came up with the term "axis of evil" for Bush's 2002 State of the Union address but it seems likely that Bush, heavily influenced by the propagandists of the rabidly anti-Pyongyang Washington Times, decided North Korea's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il was Satan reincarnate. Years before North Korea announced it was restarting its nuclear enrichment facility at Yongbyon, The Washington Times splashed front page headlines about North Korea being a threat while other major newspapers and wire services treated the sensationalistic reports as a non-story or more probably, plain disinformation masked as "intelligence reports" and "leaked" by anti-Clinton Pentagon officials.

For twenty years, Moon's main policy laundering enterprise for his incessant influence-peddling has been The Washington Times, the money-losing newspaper he owns outright through New World Communications, Inc., the paper's parent publishing company. New World also owns Insight Magazine, The Middle East Times (based in Cairo), Zambezi Times (based in Lusaka, Zambia), newspapers in Uruguay and Canada, a textbook publishing company in Russia, and United Press International, the formerly well-respected wire service that fell on hard financial times and was bailed out by Moon's seemingly unlimited cash flows.

Next year, an Insight magazine reporter is poised to take over as President of the venerable National Press Club in Washington. Thus, in a presidential election year, a Moon employee will have influence on what politicians and candidates are selected for televised luncheon speeches carried by C-SPAN and other cable news networks. Democrats and Greens should be very wary. Some former Washington Times officials claim The Washington Times and its affiliates are so tied in with Moon's agenda, its reporters and staff should register with the Justice Department as foreign lobbyists under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

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2. URL Moved

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2...n/index_np.html

Bad Moon on the rise
Overcoming his church's bizarre reputation and his own criminal record, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon has cemented ties with the Bush administration -- and gained government funding for his closest disciples.

Editor's Note: The Rev. Sun Myung Moon's "coronation" in a Senate office building, the subject of a Salon story this week, has now captured the attention of Washington lawmakers and the media. In September 2003, writer John Gorenfeld illustrated Moon's close ties to the Bush administration -- and to George H.W. Bush, who has spoken to Moonie-run causes abroad, and once said he shares values with Moon's group, including "strengthening the family." Salon has reposted this piece for the convenience of our readers.

Sept. 24, 2003 | Last December, at his three-day God and World Peace event, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon drew a notable slate of political figures, from Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., to Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill., and, perhaps most notably, James Towey, director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, who offered some respectful opening remarks to Moon's Unification Church faithful. Moon followed, and called for all religions to come together in support of the Bush plan for faith-based initiatives.

Coming from Moon that made perfect sense, because he already believes all religions will come together -- under him. "The separation between religion and politics," he has observed on many occasions, "is what Satan likes most." His gospel: Jesus failed because he never attained worldly power. Moon will succeed, he says, by purifying our sex-corrupted culture, and that includes cleaning up gays ("dung-eating dogs," as he calls them) and American women ("a line of prostitutes"). Jews had better repent, too. (Moon claims that the Holocaust was payback for the crucifixion of Christ: "Through the principle of indemnity, Hitler killed 6 million Jews.") His solution is a world theocracy that will enforce proper sexual habits in order to bring about heaven on earth.

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3. more links

More links

http://www.gorenfeld.net/blog/2003_11_01_barchive.html
http://www.gorenfeld.net/moon/

http://www.freedomofmind.com/resourcecenter/groups/m/moonies/front_groups.htm#businesses%20US

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/unification/image.htm

Unification Church of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon is spending millions of dollars a year on a broad range of cultural and political programs, including academic conferences, foreign trips for journalists and conservative lobbying activities, that are designed to improve the church's image with the American public and promote an ideological "world war" against communism.

The church also is using its vast financial resources to foster a budding alliance with the New Right and conservative political leaders. In May, a church political group called the Freedom Leadership Foundation paid for four Republican Senate staff members -- including aides to Sens. Steve Symms (R-Idaho), Robert W. Kasten Jr. (R-Wis.) and William L. Armstrong (R-Colo.) -- to fly to Central America where they met with government leaders and U.S. Embassy officials in Honduras and Guatemala and joined the official U.S. observer delegation to the Salvadoran election.

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4. Faith Based Funding...

http://www.gorenfeld.net/blog/2003/12/flashback-bush-praises-sun-myung-moon.html

Tuesday, December 02, 2003
Flashback: Bush Praises Sun Myung Moon as 'Man of Vision'


http://www.ctlibrary.com/ct/1998/feb9/8t2082.html
Moon-Related Funds Filter to Evangelicals

by John W. Kennedy

Affiliates of Sun Myung Moon, controversial leader of the Unification Church, have a history of supporting and courting conservative evangelicals. Now, according to published reports, financial support has been filtered to Liberty University from Moon-related enterprises. But Liberty founder Jerry Fallwell told Christianity Today that the source of the funds does not influence his ministry.

"If the American Atheists Society or Saddam Hussein himself ever sent an unrestricted gift to any of my ministries," Falwell says, "be assured I will operate on Billy Sunday's philosophy: The Devil's had it long enough, and quickly cash the check."

~snip~

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5. More evidence

http://www.au.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5684&news_iv_ctrl=0&abbr=cs_&JServSessionIdr012=yc991l9p91.app1b

Moon Shadow

With Help From Congressional Republicans And The Bush 'Faith-Based' Initiative, Controversial Korean Evangelist Sun Myung Moon Is Trying To Expand His Religious-Political Empire

By Rob Boston

At first glance, the invitation many clergy and community leaders around the country received last April to attend conferences on "Faith-Based Initiatives For Family and Community Renewal" might have looked like it came from the Republican congressional leadership and the Bush administration.

The material, decorated with a drawing of the U.S. Capitol, noted that the events would include a satellite broadcast of a GOP-sponsored "faith-based summit" for clergy transmitted live from the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and said that prominent congressional leaders and White House staffers would take part.

The flyer promised that the "cutting edge program" would "provide the latest information on innovative policies and programs from the Executive and Congressional leadership in Washington; and build alliances for faith-based services at the state and community level."

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7. Thank you jc

for your extensive posts. I will post the information at another site,
www.voicesofoutrage.com under the heading, religion, politics and the election

I recall the big deal about the millenium. Remember folks? Another "end times" catastrophic scenario. What happened? Nothin'

I am so damn sick of these power mad bastards I could spit. One day, and it won't be too far away, America will be losing the one thing it can't do without, citizens with common sense. People will move to ther parts of the world and who can blame them?

The first politician who declares him/herself an athiest has my vote hands down.

Ok, I'll continue my rant elsewhere.

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8. There was a glitch

Perhaps I was flooding, but I have lots more to add. I'm only posting snippets from each source. Go read the original articles in their entirety, and then you'll get a whole lot more than nervous.

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14. Bush and religion

has been a hobby of mine for about a year. Not much surprises me but Moon definetly has his eye on North Korea as a posh post someday. God help us all. They'd all use their own mothers in a bordello if they had to.

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17. Then you prolly know that Ashcroft anoints his head with oil

In one of the links I'll be adding in a little while towards the end, is some material on how Moon has dealings with North Korea... another country with a psychotic running it.

That seems to be an endemic problem on this planet. People who want power over other people, focus on getting that & running things. That is not exactly a formula for good government. We would do better with a Lottery, since your average human being is a lot nicer than your average Head of State...

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6. yeah, more...

http://www.mediachannel.org/originals/moontranscript.shtml

he Resurrection Of Reverend Moon

This is a transcript of a January 21, 1992 broadcast, "Frontline: The Ressurection Of Reverend Moon." Eric Nadler, reporter. Written and produced by Rory O'Connor. Copyright (c)1991 WGBH Educational Foundation. Used with permission.

Rory O'Connor is CEO of Globalvision New Media, producers of MediaChannel.
For information on purchasing this program contact Rory O'Connor at [e-mail].

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9. The Unholy alliance ...

John Edwards needs to take this issue into the heart of the South. Most Bush voters don't know about the neo-con's close relationship with a man who thinks he's the risen savior. If they knew about these relationships, those southern bible thumpers would flee Bush in droves.

BTW, Danny Davis (D-IL) needs to be lanced off the Democratic party. He was the one dumb enough to bear the crown to Rev Moon on a satin pillow.

Finally, revelation doesn't have SHIT to do with Christianity. It is the wild fantasy of a dead man. It doesn't bear a SINGLE word from JC. JC never annointed it. It was written a LONG time after JC was crucified.

This shit all ties into the astrological age of Aquarius when the next "king" will come. That age is upon us soon and no doubt the apocolyptic types have seized on astrology as another indicator for when Jesus will come again.

What I really personally wonder is whether Dubaya THINKS that he's the arisen savior. We all know that he thinks he hears gods voice and gods instructions. He says that GOD wanted him to be president (You'd think that god would instruct voters in that case). The guy has a serious case of narcissism and I seriously wonder if his priveleged upbringing of ZERO consequences has led him to believe he's a higher form of life. He may very well believe that he himself is the arisen Jesus.

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12. I happen to be a New Ager

We've always known that Moon was a nutcase. Back in the 70s, Moon spoke for a large audience in Boston. I went to check him out. Moon has a Black Aura. If you know what that is, then you will understand the danger.

Yeah, I would love it, if the Fundies found out about Bush & Moon being so tight. Jerry Falwell is pretty tight with Moon, too. He got a donation from Moon that was around 5 million,(as I remember)... Falwell turned the money over, so that when he was called on it, he was able to return the princpal, having made an equal amount in interest.

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10. The Washington Times

http://www.rickross.com/reference/unif/unif163.html

Moon Speech Raises Old Ghosts as the Times Turns 20

Washington Post/May 23, 2002
By Frank Ahrens

At Tuesday night's celebration of the Washington Times' 20th anniversary, its founder, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, gripped a podium at the Washington Hilton and delivered an impassioned, hour-long evangelical sermon in Korean saying he established the newspaper "in response to heaven's direction."

During the sermon, he set the course for the Times' next 10 years: "The Washington Times is responsible to let the American people know about God." Later, he added: "The Washington Times will become the instrument in spreading the truth about God to the

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11. Moon against Individualism

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=fatherland+korea+site%3Atparents.org>http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=...%3Atparents.org


http://www.unification.net/1987/870125.html>http://www.unification.net/1987/870125.html
I SHALL FOLLOW
WITH GRATITUDE AND
OBEDIENCE

January 25, 1987
Belvedere
Translator - Sang Kil Han

The words "I shall follow with gratitude and obedience" are good words, aren't they? What kind of people are we? What kind of work do we do? You say that we are religious people; what do religious people do? Well, the answer is rather simple: religious people are those who are heading for heaven. That is one definition of religious people. Therefore, those of us here are heading for heaven.

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13. Moon Quotes

http://www.csj.org/infoserv_press/press_moon_97nov/pressucmoonq.htm>http://www.csj.org/infoserv_press/press_mo...ressucmoonq.htm

Sun Myung Moon Quotes


On Marriage
You will be happy to die on the earliest possible date. You will be pleased, won't you? (Yes!) But before you die, you must be blessed in marriage! If you die without getting blessed in marriage, it will be awful. So, wait until that time to die. Your physical parents too would like to have you get married before you die, at least.

Democracy
My dream is to organize a Christian political party including the Protestant denominations, Catholic and all the religious sects. Then, the communist power will be helpless before ours....But when it comes to our age, we must have an automatic theocracy to rue the world. So, we cannot separate the political field from the religious. Democracy was born because people ruled the world, like the Pope does. ...The separation between religion and politics is what Satan likes most.

From MS-366, 9/17/73, Third Directors' Conference, Master Speaks.

Lies If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin.
Page 11, Leader's Speech, Rowlane Farmhouse, March, 16th 1972

Law Americans know that I have brought many young people from all over the world. I have read that the immigration officials say I'm violating immigration laws. Americans don't realize that God has declared war against the satanic power, and that it is not I who have called the youth from all over the world to the United States to fight, but God. I am the commander and you are the volunteer army summoned by God. If the American people don't realize this an persecute and obstruct you, they will be faced with perdition.

From MS-456, 2/16/75, Tarrytown,, New York February 16, 1975, Master Speaks, Speech On True Parents' Birthday.

Give Up Your Mind First of all, mind must be offered on the alter through True Parents.

Page 10, Teaching Manual

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15. Last Days are Coming!!!

http://www.tparents.org/UNews/Unws0209/SM020913.htm

The Last Days are Coming to America

Sun Myung Moon
September 13, 2002


This is from an address given at east Garden to clergy planning the September 14th Blessing.


I realized that we must have one philosophy or thought. No religious leaders can do this. Don’t focus on your position with your denomination. Focus on going through the spirit world to get to God. If you don’t know God’s will you may be crying out in the future.

Some of you may have come just to see Rev. Moon to see what he looks like. All countries are afraid of me. Why. Because I have the truth, this is why everybody is scared. You have to break down the denominationalism. You must break down Godism. You must listen to me. Bishop Stallings and Bishop Johnson do you put the black Jesus in your church and the white Jesus in your church. Are you ready to absolutely die for your faith.

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16. Thank you!

I am always looking for this stuff. Thanks again.

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18. awwwwww Shucks! 'Twern't nuthin really....

I have a Mac. Sherlock kicks ass! hehehe

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19. Robbing Widows & Orphans

http://www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/sunmyungmoon93/UM930128.htm>http://www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/sunmyun...93/UM930128.htm

The issue in America today is should homosexuals and lesbians be allowed in the armed forces. The graduates should come in and fight for God here. If the army allows bad sexual behavior it will decline. How can you make love when the enemy attacks.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-sr...ation/widow.htm>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-sr...ation/widow.htm


Widow Pays Church to End
Husband's 'Suffering in Hell'


By Kevin Sullivan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, August 4, 1996; Page A30

tsuko Nakajima was about 40 when her husband died of heart disease in February 1988, leaving her with a young daughter to raise. During her grieving, a neighbor stopped by to offer her condolences.

According to her lawyers and court documents, this is what followed:

The neighbor was a witch of the Unification Church, but did not mention that at the time. She suggested going to an art show to take Nakajima's mind off her tragedy. At the show, she persuaded the widow to pay about $2,200 for a painting. It later turned out the painting was purchased from a company owned by Unification Church witches.

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20. Ideological Warfare

http://www.mediachannel.org/originals/revmoon.shtml

A New Weapon In An Ideology War

In May 2000, the media arm of Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church bought itself electronic fingers. News World Communications, Moon's media company, purchased United Press International (UPI), a once venerable news wire service. UPI, which provided news for media worldwide, could offer a legitimizing platform for Moon's dogma — if the new owners can revive the decrepit agency.

MediaChannel affiliates report on the sorry state of UPI (which once had 200 bureaus worldwide) and investigate Moon's growing empire. A virulently anticommunist, self-proclaimed messiah, Reverend Moon is also a prosperous businessman who can subsidize publications around the world. From The Washington Times to newspapers in Japan, Egypt and Latin America, Moon has made skillful media manipulation a key strategy in winning adherents to his vision of god and politics. As top Moon executive Bo Hi Pak declared in a 1991 documentary, "That is what the Third World War is all about — the war of ideology."

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21. Bush Sr spoke at Moon function in South America

http://www.freedomofmind.com/stevehassan/presskit/articles/parry.htm>http://www.freedomofmind.com/stevehassan/p...icles/parry.htm

Dark Side of Rev. Moon: Hooking George Bush

By Robert Parry
Consortium News

Last fall, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's latest foray into the high-priced world of media and politics was in trouble. South American journalists were writing scathingly about Moon's plan to open a regional newspaper that the 77-year-old founder of the Korean-based Unification Church hoped would give him the same influence in Latin America that the ultra-conservative Washington Times had in the United States.

As opening day ticked closer for Moon's Tiempos del Mundo, leading South American newspapers were busy recounting unsavory chapters of Moon's history, including his links with South Korea's feared intelligence service and with violent anti-communist organizations that some commentaries said bordered on neo-fascist.

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22. Bush in Moon's Pocket

http://www.geocities.com/craigmaxim/p-politicians-governorgeorgewbush2.html>http://www.geocities.com/craigmaxim/p-poli...orgewbush2.html

Moonie Involvement Rating
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(Part-2) George W. Bush
In Rev. Moon's Pocket?
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~In Part-1 of this series, we examined one of the potential scenarios that Moonies could play in a George W. Bush Presidency, but what makes that scenario plausible at all, is the history that George W. Bush's father, former President George Bush has developed with the Moonies over the years. This will likely both enlighten and shock you. It is simply amazing how the web weaves through the Moonies and the Bush Family, and we will detail much of that in this article.

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23. More nails for the Coffin

http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/moon.html


The Bush-Kim-Moon Triangle of Money
At odds over North Korea, George W. Bush and South Korean President Kim Dae Jung have one thing in common: behind the scenes, both have benefited from Rev. Sun Myung Moon's largesse. March 10, 2001

Rev. Moon, the Bushes & Donald Rumsfeld
Defense Secretary-designate Donald Rumsfeld criticizes President Clinton for not blocking North Korea's missile program, but Rev. Sun Myung Moon -- a Bush family benefactor -- allegedly was giving the communist leaders hard currency they needed. By Robert Parry. January 3, 2001.

Rev. Moon, North Korea & the Bushes
New documents reveal that U.S. intelligence tracked secret payments from Rev. Sun Myung Moon to North Korean leaders, a development that could embarrass the Bush family. By Robert Parry. October 11, 2000

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24. Moon Crowned in Capitol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Myung_Moon

The Reverend Sun Myung Moon (In official transliteration Mun Seon-Myeong ; ???; ???, born January 6, 1920) is the founder of the Unification Church (established on May 1, 1954, in Seoul, South Korea). With his wife Hak Ja Han, he is co-leader of the Unification Movement.

Rev. Moon's followers see him as a new Messiah, the second coming of Christ, commissioned by a Jesus Christ to establish the Kingdom of God on earth. In the face of such extravagant claims, Moon met with enormous opposition, but has become a VIP among national-level Washington, D.C. politicians, who have crowned him the "King of Peace" in ceremonies on Capitol Hill.

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25. Moon attacked John Kerry over Iran/Contra Investigation

In the mid-1980s, for instance, when journalists and Congress began prying into Oliver North's secret support for the Nicaraguan contras and their ties to drug trafficking, Moon's paper led the counter-attack. "Story on drug smuggling denounced as political ploy" was the subtitle of a front-page Washington Times article criticizing a piece that Brian Barger and I had written for The Associated Press about a Miami-based federal probe into gun- and drug-running by the contras.

When Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., uncovered more evidence of contra drug trafficking in 1986, The Washington Times denounced him. The newspaper first published articles suggesting that Kerry was on a wasteful political witch hunt. "Kerry's anti-contra efforts extensive, expensive, in vain," announced one Times article.

But when Kerry exposed more and more contra wrongdoing, The Washington Times changed tactics. In 1987, it began intimidating Kerry's staff with front-page accusations that they were obstructing justice. "Kerry staffers damaged FBI probe," declared one Times article. It opened with the assertion that "congressional investigators for Sen. John Kerry severely damaged a federal drug investigation last summer by interfering with a witness while pursuing allegations of drug smuggling by the Nicaraguan resistance , federal law enforcement officials said."

http://www.freedomofmind.com/stevehassan/presskit/articles/parry.htm>http://www.freedomofmind.com/stevehassan/p...icles/parry.htm