Posted on 09/24/2004 3:51:33 PM PDT by Former Military Chick
President Bush recently insisted that Iraq was en route to stability, and Sen. John Kerry shot back: "With all due respect to the president, has he turned on the evening news lately? Does he read the newspapers? Does he really know what's happening? Is he talking about the same war that the rest of us are talking about?"
This would seem a rather inopportune time to claim the evening news as the font of truth unvarnished.
It's hard to imagine the American people reassured by a president who bases his decisions on things he sees on the tube. President Kerry! What is your response to the Iranian nuclear test? "I was in a meeting when the news came on, but I think my aides taped it. I'll get back to you once we find the remote."
To answer his question: No, Bush was not talking about the war Kerry sees, because Bush hasn't spent his life contorting everything into the thin and squiggly template of Vietnam. Bush is talking about a war he intends to win, a war in which Iraq is one front. Kerry is talking about a war he believes was a mistake, and his success depends on bumming everyone out until we concede defeat and beg Kofi Annan for forgiveness.
At least Kerry has returned to his roots. His recent speech was indistinguishable in tone and timbre from the sonorous recitation of American woe he related before the Senate in 1971. We are losing, the "insurgents" are growing, the Beaujolais is late, and Saigon -- sorry, Baghdad -- does not yet resemble Beacon Hill. We must wash our hands and bow our heads and slump our way back home.
In other words, Kerry has a new strategy: He's Howard Dean without the hoarse, impromptu screeches. New slogans: "Just as anti-war -- but lankier!" Or "Even a fish on the dock stops flipping eventually." He has flopped back and forth on Iraq, but the exigencies of his guttering campaign have forced a final position: He's the bug-out candidate.
Wrong, you say! He wants "to fight and win the war on terror," as he put it.
Really. Just as he wanted to fight and win the war against the Soviets? Kerry wanted a nuclear freeze, the fashionable concept that we could shame the Soviets into disarming by climbing up on the moral high ground and singing "Kumbayah." Just as in the war against Vietnamese collectivism? That was the "biggest nothing" in human history, according to war protester Kerry. A bigger nothing than, say, World War I? Yes, because his generation was involved. It's one thing to mow down 50,000 Britons in an afternoon, but don't you think of mussing the hair on a boomer's precious head.
The war against Soviet influence in Central America? He took up the Sandinista cause, trusting Daniel Ortega over Ronald Reagan. The war against Saddam Hussein? He voted against the first Gulf War, even though it had a seriously bodacious coalition. Why? Because it was a war, and if he learned anything from Vietnam, it's this: You can get a lot of votes in securely liberal districts by pulling long faces every time the United States sends troops anywhere but home for Christmas.
Like the second Gulf War? He's admitted he wouldn't have taken out Saddam, and don't think other dictators didn't perk up when they heard that. Under a Kerry presidency, Saddam would have died a happy old man in bed, handing his money and weapons and hatreds to his sons. What's one more prison-camp oil-rich nation, after all.
All this nonsense about bringing in "allies" is window dressing for American withdrawal. In your gut, you know it -- Kerry wants out. He's revealing the same ideas that have characterized his entire career: appeasement and naivete, shot through with self-servicing drama. He has spent his entire political career shouting "Theater!" in a crowded firehouse, and this attempt to paint Iraq as the new Vietnam is nothing different.
It's hardly inspirational. It doesn't exactly fire up the troops. Kerry once said: How do you ask someone to be the last man to die for a mistake? Simple. Just tell him to hold his position until his retreat is covered by Ivory Coast peacekeepers. If that doesn't boost morale, nothing will.
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh! oops excuse me. Excellent post!
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I for the life of me cannnot understand why this man is being allowed to run for POTUS. He is clearly anti-American. Why isn't the FBI or CIA conducting an investigation on whether this man is once again aiding and abetting the enemy. He is a treasonist and needs to be stopped NOW!!!!!!
Thus the nail was hit
Squarely on its head
Kush
Very good stuff. Kerry's understanding of the war, even with his being a US SENATOR is no more than what his clintonite advisers read to him between campaign stops. Course they're reading him what they just fed their pals in the media...
This quote is Kerry in a nut-case-shell.
Amazing article, one must now come to the conclusion that John Kerry is Howard Dean without the sanity.
I am truly frightened that more than 12% of Americans are actually contemplating voting for this fraud. Liberalism is borderline mental breakdown.
Today, a 1997 interview of Kerry revealed that he said the following:
"We know we can't count on the French. We know we can't count on the Russians," said Mr. Kerry. "We know that Iraq is a danger to the United States, and we reserve the right to take pre-emptive action whenever we feel it's in our national interest."
While no "Crossfire" transcripts from 1997 are available, Mr. King in recent days produced a tape of the show, sharing it with New York radio host Monica Crowley for broadcast, and this Inside the Beltway column for publication. Stay tuned...
KERRY IS CHAMELEON MAN
No. He doesn't. That is why he has a realistic picture of what is happening. He hears from his generals. He hears from the coalition partners. He hears from the interim government.
The president doesn't need to read the NY Times or watch Dan Rather to know what is going on in Iraq.
I would imagine he only reads the Times or watches the evening news to find out what the daily DNC talking points are going to be.
How many people actually ever thought this "friend of Fonda/traitor" was ever qualified to be C.I.C. or any other elective office? ( Better pay your shrink a visit. And don't buy too many Brooklyn Bridges.)
Well think about it. Kerry is still Senator and yet when was the last time he actually attended a session? He moaned about the gun ban expiring and yet didnt think it was important enough to show up to vote. Hes been AWOL from any of his senatorial duties. How could he know what is debated or said there? Kerry is an opportunist and phony. I wonder if he ever has stopped to ask what an Iraqi citizen thinks ..or for that matter any of our troops that have been there or are there. Kerry is in his own little world of make believe.
Dan Rather probably tells him how it is.
If I didn't know better I would not believe there is a person like JF'ingK. That was wonderful, entertaining and on the money in content.
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This flaming moron has been in the United States Senate for 19 years. He is on Senate Committees. The bastard never shows up for work. He does not read position papers. Or intelligence papers. This pr!ck is the most irresponsbile dolt to have ever run for POTUS, other than his pal, NutCase Carter. /rant. Now I feel better. Pant... pant...
I guess the information the president is not as ... accurate... as the information that passes through the filter of the LSM.
***He has spent his entire political career shouting "Theater!" in a crowded firehouse...***
LOL!
Awesome post. I am sending to everyone in my address book!!
It is a great read. Thanks.
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CIA doesn't investigate anyone, particularly US citizens. We don't need an investigation of Kerry. His stupidity and lack of principles are readily apparent and the best thing is to vote him into obscurity.
John Kerry is doing his best to equate the War in Iraq to Vietnam.
Your beloved is correct and you may tell him so for me. :-)
Many thanks for the ping! It's a very good article.
sKerry=Zapatero=Communist trash
They get good people killed, as in dead...
I'd suspect he's a trail balloon for Hillary to see just how hard well resist a treasonous B* as a Presidential candidate. You can also bet she's rallying a team to determine how to shut down bloggers in 2008, thus the recent "Is Blogging good for America" articles and newscasts that you're starting to see.
One of the planks of communism is to control the media. Those who are indoctrinated via that media become your children. The left is reeling over the past few weeks at this setback.
Anyway:
"I'll get you my pretty...and your little blog, too!"
No independent-minded American interested in the truth has turned on the evening news lately.
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