(Iraq) What Would Kerry Do As President? Senator Doesn't Always Answer

CNSNews.com ^ | 8 April 2004 | Susan Jones

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Kerry would surrender our national sovereignty to the UN...

Kerry would and yet he wouldn't. It depends on what the voices in his head are saying...

Flashback! Excerpt from Kerry on CrossFire in 1997 (Kerry RIPS into France, et al)

Kerry: The administration is making it clear that they don't believe that they even need the U.N. Security Council to sign off on a material breach because the finding of material breach was made by Mr. Butler. So furthermore, I think the United States has always reserved the right and will reserve the right to act in its best interests. And clearly it is not just our best interests, it is in the best interests of the world to make it clear to Saddam Hussein that he's not going to get away with a breach of the '91 agreement that he's got to live up to, which is allowing inspections and dismantling his weapons and allowing us to know that he has dismantled his weapons. That's the price he pays for invading Kuwait and starting a war.

Kerry's flip-flops are easy to see. He's been saddled with a label that he can't shake.

[Keith in Iowa]

But in Kerry's world, what's in our best interests is what the UN says is our interest.

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Mission Impossible: Electing John Kerry

"This campaign will self-destruct in..."

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Read that interview and you will see that he was "defending" the possibility of going to war against Iraq without UN approval and even without the approval of France and Russia (who Kerry identified as having business dealings with Iraq).

What changed is that a Republican became president so the policy was no longer "right" for America. "It just wasn't hip to protest Clinton."

[Stultis]

This article missed it. Kerry said that sadr had become more 'radical in the last few days' which suggests that the fighting was all about the newspaper being shut down..

EXACTLY. It's a stunning and frightening thing for a Senator on the Senate Intelligence Committee to say about a man charged with a political murder committed a year ago, and whose ties to Iran have been known for just as long. And that he said this in the process of correcting himself makes it all the more staggering.

[weegee]

Kerry cannot put his index finger up to the wind until he pulls his thumbs out of his pasty derriere.

I'm waiting for Kerry to have his MTV moment:

"Senator Kerry, do you wear frilly French underwear or a thong?"

[Samwise]

Kerry: "Well, the mistake that I'm talking about, Judy, is not the effort to fight and have -- not the effort to have a stable Iraq. The mistake is in the way that they are going about it. So I would change the way you're going about it. I mean again and again I have said, I laid out with great specificity months ago, the steps that they should have taken, and I believe that those people who have been in touch with people in the international community know there is a different and better way to put together an effort that could legitimize a government in Iraq. If we insist on doing this through our provisional government authority, if we insist on being totally in control the way we are today, we're going to having an impossible time legitimately bringing people to the table."

Does anyone have a pompous ass translator that we can run this through?

The man is completely incapable of expressing a coherent thought.

[Stultis]

for a Senator on the Senate Intelligence Committee

OOOPS! Correcting self. Kerry is on Foreign Relations, NOT Intelligence.

[lainde]

He's pathetic!

[NutCrackerBoy]

Laura Ingraham for weeks, months, years, has been hammering the news-people for no tough followups to liberal lions. Maybe Judy Woodruff gulped twice, and went for it. I have to say, though, Kerry is a soft target.

[GeronL]

does Kerry really think this man raised an army in a few days?

[The Old Hoosier]

I laid out with great specificity months ago, the steps that they should have taken

Yeah, Johnnie, you did. You wrote in the New York Times that if Saddam doesn't cooperate, we should go to war, even if it's unilateral.

Oh, gee, maybe President Kerry would do exactly what he's b#tching about President Bush doing...

[CyberAnt]

"the world needs to be involved"

Which means .. he would call the UN and ask them what to do.

[BlessedByLiberty]

...I want to ask you the question you asked during the Vietnam War. How do you ask a man...to be the last to die for a mistake?"...

This is a Viet Nam flashback Kerry will not be able to escape - his antiwar rhetoric, his history and turncoat behavior against his 'band of brothers'.

Still reeling from the idea that Judy Woodruf asked this question.