[lbo-talk] a suggestion for Mr. Kerry

[Joseph Wanzala]

..... Kerry must commit to a purge from his administration of all neo-cons, 
whether of the Republican or Democratic persuasion. A number of hawkish 
Democrats, who are waiting in the wings, were singing from the same song 
sheet as the neo-cons in the Bush administration about invading Iraq and the 
mumbo jumbo about America's role as the world's only remaining superpower. 
Holbrooke, a supporter of the Iraq invasion, is rumored to be on the short 
list as a Democratic Secretary of State. Under no circumstances should he or 
Leon Fuerth (Vice President Gore's former national security adviser), Joe 
Lieberman, Jamie Rubin, Susan Rice, Wesley Clark, and other Democratic world 
interventionists be considered for any positions in a Kerry administration. 
Democrats who witnessed how the Bush regime embarked on a unilateralist 
foreign policy do not wish to see that policy replaced by a 
unilateralist-lite Democratic foreign policy.

http://www.counterpunch.org/madsen02192004.html

"In 1999, Mrs. Teresa Thierstein Simões-Ferreira Heinz Kerry, (who was born 
in Lorenco Marques, Mozambique into a wealthy Portuguese colonial family 
rivaslling the wealth of the Heinz money she married into) through her Heinz 
Family Philanthropies, attempted to broker a land development deal between 
an extreme right-wing Republican Texan billionaire and supporter of George 
W. Bush named James U. Blanchard III -- a past supporter of the right-wing 
Mozambican rebel group RENAMO and the pro-Bush Heritage Foundation in 
Washington, DC -- and the Mozambican government to develop a huge 
eco-tourist area south of Maputo to the Kwazulu Natal border of South 
Africa."
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elsewhere Madsen notes:-

...it was later determined that Polier was dating an aide to Kerry, not the 
senator. Polier is engaged to Yaron Schwartzman, an Israeli-American living 
in Nairobi, Kenya with his Israeli parents. Schwartzman's father is linked 
to some of East Africa's most unsavory players. How Kerry could have let 
himself become embroiled in such an episode involving people with 
questionable business ties, to say the least, is incredible and frightening.

Yaron Schwartzman's father, Joseph Schwartzman, is a wealthy businessman who 
owns, along with former Kenyan cabinet minister, Nicholas Biwott, H. Young 
Company, an engineering firm located in Nairobi's Industrial Area. Biwott 
was a right-hand man of former Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi. Biwott was 
accused of ordering the murder of former Kenyan Foreign Minister Robert 
Ouko, as well as a number of other human rights violations.

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