[Wolverine]

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[AmericanMade1776]

MR. PETERSON: Let’s move to another subject. (Laughter.)

There’s a lot of talk about how we ought to take on Iraq, and that we think they’ve got biological weapons, and we think that they have them weaponized, and they may have nuclear materials. But what’s less clear to me is what we mean exactly by “taking on Iraq,” particularly if they don't do anything overt; particularly if we don’t demonstrate that they were involved in September 11th.

So can you give me some scenarios that you think are sensible, that put some meat on the bones of how we’re going to take on Iraq? What do we mean by this?

MR. KERREY: Invade Iraq and liberate 24 million Iraqis. That’s what I’d do.

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[GailA]

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[AmericanMade1776]

[zeaal]

Future consideration. Thank you.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Let me guess: Kerrey's suffering from a brain tumor or Althzeimers. Or, he was off his meds the other morning when questioning Condi.

[lilylangtree]

Typical demoncRAT amnesia.

[MeekOneGOP]

STATEMENT BY BOB KERREY, ON U.S.
POLICY TOWARD IRAQ, March 1, 2001

Excerpt:

Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, with or without sanctions, the 20 million people of Iraq deserve to have the United States of America on the side of their freedom. Third, we have sustained a military effort to contain Iraq, and that military effort has cost us lives. U.S. and British pilots fly almost daily, as Senator Wellstone observed, to enforce the No Fly Zones in the North and in the South.

But, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, we also maintain a presence at the Dhahran military installation in Saudi Arabia. And the significance of that is that this installation, part of our containment policy, was the target of a truck bomb attack on 25 June 1996 that killed 19 U.S. airmen. It was cited by Osama bin Laden as a reason for attacking U.S. embassies in West Africa on August 7, 1998, that killed 11 Americans and over 200 others. Our military presence was cited again when the USS Cole was attacked on October 12, 2000 in the Port of Aden, Yemen, killing 17 American sailors.

I point this out, Mr. Chairman, because when the debate occurs as to whether or not military force is needed, do not forget that we already have a very expensive military operation in place today. The question is not should we have a military operation. The question is how should that military operation be deployed. Fourth, when he signed the Iraq Liberation into law on October 31, 1998, President Clinton began the process of shifting away from the failed policy of using military force to contain Iraq, to supporting military force to replace the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein with a democratically elected government. And although our support for opposition forces has been uneven at best, this new policy is still current law.

Fifth, Mr. Chairman, opponents of establishing our policy objection of liberation of the people of Iraq use a number of effective arguments, and I'd like to cite them because I'd like to also refute them. They say we would never get the support for a military operation. They say that democracy won't work in Iraq -- that Arabs aren't capable of governing themselves. They say finally that the opposition forces lack the legitimacy and capability of the most -- in particular, the most visible organization, the Iraq National Congress lacks the coherency and ability to be able to get the job done.

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So, Mr. Chairman, I come here today to urge you to stay the course. Join with President Bush and tell him to imagine returning to Baghdad himself 10 years from now to celebrate the liberation of Iraq. In my view, it is possible ....

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[JOE43270]

I am not a combat veteran but I am a veteran, United states Air Force. I do have an opinion on this Kerrey though. I didn't expirience what he did and I hold combat veterans a couple of rungs higher up the ladder than myself, but these two Kerreys however you spell it aren't doing anything but keeping SUPPORT from reaching our wonderful people in uniform. Whatever their reasons are they are destructive and even though they have the Right of FREE SPEECH, as Ollie North put it they are not taking the responsibility for the results of their speech.