Posted on 09/12/2004 4:07:59 PM PDT by Presto
Today on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, one of Senator Kerry’s top advisors, former Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, declared that the situation in Iraq is worse than America’s defeat in Vietnam.
Here is the excerpt from that interview:
WALLACE: ...I want to give you, as one of his top advisers, a chance to clear that up. We're going to first play a series of statements by the senator and also one by one of his opponents in the Democratic primaries. Take a look.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIPS)
U.S. SENATOR JOHN KERRY, D-MA: I think it was the right decision to disarm Saddam Hussein. And when the president made the decision, I supported him and I support the fact that we did disarm him.
HOWARD DEAN, FORMER GOVERNOR OF VERMONT: I think this was the wrong war at the wrong time. KERRY: It's the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time.
(END VIDEO CLIPS)
WALLACE: Ambassador Holbrooke, simple question: Does John Kerry now support the decision to take Saddam Hussein out of power or not?
HOLBROOKE: As I just said, Chris, twice in 1998 and 2002, John...
WALLACE: That's not the question I'm asking you, sir. I'm asking you, does he support the decision now to disarm and oust Saddam Hussein?
HOLBROOKE: Let me try to answer, Chris, and then I want to make a general comment about what I consider a very one-sided coverage of this issue. Because it's President Bush who's changed his positions much more than anyone else.
WALLACE: If I may, sir, I'd like to get an answer to my question. Does he support disarming Saddam Hussein or not?
HOLBROOKE: Senator Kerry has supported getting rid of Saddam Hussein from the beginning. But giving the authority to the president is quite different from the president taking that authority and creating a mess worse than Vietnam, which is the mess we are now in. And the effort to find Senator Kerry's nanonuanced differences in his position, as opposed to the massive changes in the Bush administration's position, is quite...
WALLACE: Wait a minute, Mr. Ambassador. You're telling me that you think that Iraq is worse than Vietnam?
HOLBROOKE: Yes. It is strategically worse than Vietnam.
You can read the whole interview at: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,132156,00.html
Holbrooke can never again be allowed to have any influence in Washington.
Yet here is Holbrooke now saying Iraq was strategically WORSE than Vietnam. No wonder the idiot is dropping in the polls.
Just like the economy is worse than the Great Depression. Nothing's ever bad enough for these people.
Tricky Ricky is at it again
Holbrooke & Albright - Clnton's lieutenants in implementing the BIG LIE that lead to the first bombings in Europe in 54 years and the genocide of christians in Kosovo.
Kerry has Aids? </snicker>
So Kerrry favors the terrorists even more than he favored the communists?
I really wonder about his supporters.
Holbrooke is a big Richard!
It's those spider eggs hatching under the skin . . . that really itches!
Holbrooke isn't merely a "supporter." He speaks for the Kerry Kampaign. This should be considered the Kampaign's official position until and unless they retract it.
If you knew Holbrooke's record, this would come as no surprise: Clinton butt-boy at State Dept.
Always remember: the dems cannot win unless W loses. They will miss no opportunity to make things look bad, even if they are good.
W and the U.S. military are fighting the terrorists, the Down Stream Media amd the democrats, and he is winning on all three fronts!
Kerry don't get it. It is fair to compare these two wars in that we should win them both and we should have the American people supporting the war, not politically opportunistic slime denegrating the Flag, the troops, the mission and the Commander In Chief. Kerry, "why not stick to your surfboard which is the only vessel you're fit to command." (O'Neal-paraphrase from today)
Kerry is a NOBODY. Take away his father's connections, and never in a thousand years would he be where he is now. Take away his two super-rich wives, and he'd be tending bar somewhere, spending his days sleeping off pills and wine on a friend's couch.
This man -- and modern democrats generally -- deeply resent any person or political party that tries to accomplish something without big-government control and participation.
Look at Kerry's own senate record, to convince yourself this is a man who accomplishes NOTHING.
He only says that because we won.
If KERRY truly thinks it is worse, then of course he must immediately volunteer to take his courage and military prowess over there and fix the problems.
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