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Kerry says terrorists alone merit execution
Chicago Tribune ^
| March 10, 2004
| Jill Zuckman
Posted on 03/10/2004 4:36:30 AM PST by Land_of_Lincoln_John
Though he always has opposed the death penalty, Sen. John Kerry said Tuesday that the Sept. 11 attacks made him realize that he would want to "blow Osama bin Laden's brains out."
Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, makes an exception for terrorists in his otherwise unflinching opposition to capital punishment. That exception, he said, was sealed by the realization that war had been declared against the United States that balmy autumn morning more than two years ago.
"That status of war led me to find it impossible to suggest I wouldn't want to blow Osama bin Laden's brains out and treat him as an enemy," he said in an interview with the Tribune while visiting the Chicago area for several campaign stops.
"I walked out of the Capitol and said, `We're at war."' said Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran. "That was my instant reaction as I looked in the air for another airplane that was heading toward us. I think you destroy the enemy."
The death penalty is a subject that Kerry's political opponents have tried to use against him over the past two decades, to little effect.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; capitalpunishment; deathpenalty; flipflop; kerry
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To: evad
...a LIE perpetrated by a congenital LYER.It seemed the 'RAT party was "the Natural Place for Liars" (the Clintoons, Kerry, Kennedys, Da$$hole,..etc.)...and then, I think of the RINOs in the GOP... :/
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03/10/2004 6:45:54 AM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :)
To: goldstategop
I support the death penalty for all killers. I like to think of it as "permanent rehabilitation. It is."
That said, Kerry is an idiot on this issue as he appears to be on all others.
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posted on
03/10/2004 7:34:22 AM PST
by
jimt
To: jimt
What would he say about Malvo and Mohammed? Are they Terrorists in his mind????
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posted on
03/10/2004 7:41:49 AM PST
by
chris1
To: skinkinthegrass
I think of the RINOs in the GOP. Natural Lyers Lite
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posted on
03/10/2004 7:53:35 AM PST
by
evad
(Cut taxes again. Cut spending. Cut Guv Regulations. Cut Guv Programs...Repeat)
To: chris1
What would he say about Malvo and Mohammed? Are they Terrorists in his mind???? Like everything the pinhead says, it's politically calculated. If he actually has a real opinion, you'd have to mine awfully deep to find it.
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posted on
03/10/2004 7:58:37 AM PST
by
jimt
To: Land_of_Lincoln_John
Nothing worse than watching a democrat stand up for his principles.
To: goldstategop
I support the death penalty for all killers. It shouldn't matter if one life is taken or if its 3,000. The punishment should be the same across the board as a matter of principle.Does the name Ted Kennedy come to mind?
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posted on
03/10/2004 8:30:10 AM PST
by
fella
To: Land_of_Lincoln_John
"blow Osama bin Laden's brains out."
But only after someone else cut ObL down with a 50 cal. Then and only then would Kerry the "war hero" "blow Osama bin Laden's brains out."
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posted on
03/10/2004 8:31:04 AM PST
by
Semper Vigilantis
(1 democrat + 1 democrat = 5 opinions, 6 tax increases, 2 more welfare programs & 0 solutions.)
To: Happy2BMe
What exception would he give to John Allen Muhammad? It would likely depend on who the audience John Clintoon-Kerry is talking to at the time.
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posted on
03/10/2004 9:30:25 AM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(The Democrats say they believe in CHOICE. I have chosen to vote STRAIGHT TICKET GOP for years !!)
To: cyncooper
Rhetoric like "blow his brains out" is not reassuring, presidential, in command.) Kerry had a flashback.
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03/10/2004 11:24:14 AM PST
by
Shermy
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