No Prob. Thanks for yours.
Posted on 01/06/2005 8:49:58 AM PST by Carl/NewsMax
Visiting with U.S. troops in Baghdad on Thursday, failed presidential candidate John Kerry trashed Commander-in-chief George Bush for making "horrendous judgments" and "unbelievable blunders" that have undermined the war effort.
In a series of demoralizing comments first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, the defeated Democrat griped, "What is sad about what's happening here now is that so much of it is a process of catching up from the enormous miscalculations and wrong judgments made in the beginning."
Kerry said that because of the Bush administration's mistakes, "the job has been made enormously harder."
Among the errors cited by the disgruntled Democrat: the decision by former U.S. occupation leader Paul Bremer's to disband the Iraqi army and purge the government of former members of Hussein's Baath Party.
Both moves were have fueled the Sunni insurgency, he claimed, lamenting, "Mistakes have been made."
Then, perhaps sensing he'd gone too far, the 2008 White House hopeful cut short the Bush-bashing, saying, "Now, it's a different time and different set of judgments that have to be made. I'm here to make judgments about what moves are available to us."
Main Stream Right Wing Media READ US Constitution 14th Amendment Section 3
Or have you sold out?
Well the traitor of the 70s and gigalo of today has not changed his stripes. Goes to the troops of a wise and truthful Commander in Chief and tells them whay a duffus and inept commander he is.
No Prob. Thanks for yours.
Why isn't this a$$hole in the Senate today?
John Kerry (D, AlQaeda)
Memo to John F. Kerry: We don't send losers to rebuild Iraq!
OMG you won't believe this ping:)
Maybe Kerry in some sort of failed Presidential candidate competition with Al Gore as to which election loser can be looniest soonest.
Wasn't McWeak, that general that supported Kerry last year, an Air Farce guy??
Did the traitor come back to America and tell the presstitutes what a great job the troops are doing in Iraq? I've not heard a word of that, even from Fox.
Re: #114. I stand chastised, contrite and apologetic.
I thought, with all the information spread around about this traitor, prior to the election, a hearing would be called and the traitor SHOT, this is a time of war.
Hey, Kerry what's this "us" business you are by yourself unless you have a mouse in your pocket
He's a shameless oppurtunist. Most military folks aren't like that.
Here's the complete story:
Kerry visits Iraq to monitor war firsthand
By Borzou Daragahi, Globe Correspondent | January 6, 2005
BAGHDAD -- Senator John F. Kerry, who made criticism of the Bush administration's Iraq policy a central theme of his presidential campaign, arrived in the war-torn capital yesterday on a solo fact-finding mission to the region.
Kerry visited with soldiers from Massachusetts, US intelligence officials, and Iraqi officials at the start of a two-day swing through the Iraqi capital and other parts of the country. The veteran Massachusetts senator said he wanted to see for himself whether the country was moving toward "I've been visiting a lot of places like Des Moines and Green Bay [during the campaign], and it has been great," Kerry said during an informal lunch at the Al-Rashid Hotel with a small group of reporters and officials from nongovernmental organizations. ''But we are at war, and I think you can't really make all the judgments that you need to make without digging in."
He declined to compare the insurgency in Iraq with the one he faced in South Vietnam as a Navy lieutenant three decades ago. He insisted that superior firepower alone wouldn't quell the violence in Iraq. "No insurgency is defeated by conventional military power alone. Look at the IRA," he said, referring to the Irish Republican Army, which fought a decadeslong guerrilla war against the British in Northern Ireland. It was defeated by a combination of time and political negotiation." He said he was more interested in asking questions of soldiers, American officials and Iraqis themselves than in rehashing the political battles of past campaign.
But in several instances, he attacked what he called the ''horrendous judgments" and ''unbelievable blunders" of the Bush administration. The mistakes, he said, included the decisions to disband the Iraqi Army and purge the government of former members of Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party. Both moves are widely believed to have fueled the Sunni Arab insurgency. Now, he said, it was time to move forward. "Mistakes have been made," he said. "Now it's a different time and different set of judgments that have to be made. I'm here to make judgments about what moves are available to us."
The senator was also scheduled to meet yesterday with US Embassy officials as well as Iraq's interim prime inister, Iyad Allawi, as well as a deputy to Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the Shi'ite leader at the top of a slate of candidates favored to receive the most votes in a national election set for Jan. 30.
Yesterday evening, Kerry met with about 20 Army reservists from Massachusetts, at Camp Victory at Baghdad International Airport. Some of the soldiers there live in luxury villas once inhabited by Hussein's loyalists.
''They all joked about how living conditions had changed since Senator Kerry was in Vietnam," said David Wade, Kerry's communications director. Kerry asked the Massachusetts soldiers how often they get to call their families and reminisced about writing letters home when he was stationed in Vietnam, Wade said in an e-mail account of the evening.
The senator spent Tuesday night in Amman as a guest of King Abdullah II of Jordan and was scheduled to spend last night there as well. He planned to fly back into Iraq on a C-130 military transport plane today to visit US troops in Fallujah and Mosul. Kerry, whose tour includes visits to leaders in Egypt, Israel, and the Palestinian territories, said success was in Iraq was important in the broader context of the region's struggle for change. ''You have another election in the West Bank, a set of challenges to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the region that are quite daunting," he said.
He's betting that we'll still be there when he runs again in 2008.
I thought, with all the information spread around about this traitor, prior to the election, a hearing would be called and the traitor SHOT, this is a time of war. Well, I can dream. OH, has he been in the senate recently, did he show up this week?
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I hope this is not true but somehow it seems plausible. Do the Democrats have no shame, sense of pride or love for their country. I think not judging by the shenanigans going on in the Senate and house today over the election.
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