Posted on 08/19/2004 12:57:15 PM PDT by kattracks
THE PROBLEM with being an opportunist is that you can easily forget what you've recently said. On Monday, during a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, President Bush announced that he intends to modify the configuration of American forces in both South Korea and Europe. On Wednesday, Sen. Kerry, speaking before the same audience, sharply criticized the president's decision.Appearing on ABC's This Week on August 1, however, Sen. Kerry responded to a question by host George Stephanopoulos on Iraq. Stephanopoulos asked Kerry whether, as president, he could "promise that American troops will be home by the end of your first term?" Kerry's answer:
I will have significant, enormous reduction in the level of troops. . . . I think we can significantly change the deployment of troops, not just there but elsewhere in the world. In the Korean peninsula perhaps, in Europe perhaps. There are great possibilities open to us. But this administration has very little imagination.
Apparently, Sen. Kerry wanted to appeal to the "get-the-boys-back-home" sentiment in the country when he spoke on This Week. Yesterday, addressing a convention of veterans, Kerry was busy burnishing his credentials as a hawk by suggesting that cutting our forces in Korea "is clearly the wrong signal to send" at this time.
Who knows what Sen. Kerry believes? Does Sen. Kerry even know?
flip flop flip flop.
No, TerAYza hasn't told him yet.
In other words, borrow from Iraq and restation them in Germany... Because he promised the German's more troops to pump money into their economy.
but she did say that "no one is really smart enought to be President.." The proble is, John keeps on proving her correct..
You know Kerry is in a bunch of trouble if Kristol is piling on.
He actually supported pulling troops, before he was against it!
"Now, almost two years after he voted for the war in Iraq and seven months after switching positions to declare himself the anti-war candidate, my opponent has found a new nuance. He now agrees it was the right decision to go into Iraq. See, after months of questioning my motives and even my credibility, the Senator from Massachusetts now agrees with me.... I want to thank him for clearing that up. But there are still 76 days left in the campaign for him to change his mind."
-GWB
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