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Posted on 11/14/2004 1:08:09 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
On the afternoon of Aug. 9, John F. Kerry stood on the lip of the Grand Canyon, about to make one of the biggest mistakes of his three-year quest for the presidency. A stiff wind was blowing across the canyon, and Kerry, whose hearing was damaged by gun blasts in Vietnam, had trouble understanding some of the questions being thrown his way. But he pressed on, coughing from the pollen blowing on the breeze.
Would Kerry have voted to authorize the use of force in Iraq, one reporter asked, even if he knew then that Iraq didn't have weapons of mass destruction? "Yes, I would have voted for the authority; I believe it's the right authority for a president to have," Kerry replied, as aides stood by, dumbfounded.
Kerry's answer ricocheted around the political world. Faced with the revelation that almost all the prewar arguments for invading Iraq were wrong -- the existence of weapons of mass destruction, close links to Al Qaeda -- President Bush had nonetheless insisted that he would do nothing differently. And he had been challenging Kerry to do the same, hoping to catch the Democrat changing his position on the unpopular war.
The senator explained to aides that part of the question had been lost in the wind; he thought he was answering a variation on the same basic query he'd been asked countless times: Was it right to give Bush the authority to go to war against Iraq? Kerry had simply given his standard "yes," with the proviso that he would have "done this very differently from the way President Bush has" -- yet the misunderstanding now muddied Kerry's message.
Worried advisers briefly considered issuing a clarification, but feared it might further feed Republican efforts to portray Kerry as a "flip-flopper."
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arasina to Nina J. Easton, Michael Kranish, Patrick Healy, Glen Johnson, Anne E. Kornblut, Brian Mooney and John F'n Kerry: GET A ROOM!
And this pathetic milquetoast presumed to become Commander In Chief of the world's sole super power?
It is to laugh, to snort, to spit.
Our brave warriors now put to the sword the very worst of terrorist worms--
Terrorist worms like those who killed three thousand of our CIVILIANS--while Pinkie Blueboy Esquire prissed "The threat of terrorism is exaggerated."
This vile coward who jackrabbited out after a ONE-THIRD tour, megaphoned enemy propaganda, slandered his two and a half million "band of brothers", lied and forged his way to medals he did not deserve yet could not fling away fast enough.
All the shrieking fairies of all the yellow rags can't put Bubble Boy back together again--
They wipe him off their hands and turn to She Who Must Be Oyveyed--
The demented Teresa had him in mind when she said "Men are boys always"--
Accurate in the specific; not applicable to the type of real men we re-elected.
The Kerry friendly media has dramatically written volumes about him shedding blood for his country, still carrying around schrapnel, and now deafness too.
Was Cleland in charge of teaching Kerry to salute? (sorry.)
I'll bet he's glad you found his daisy!! Maybe it reminds him of his first Daisy BB gun?
Good rant Phil!!
Ditto!
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