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Kerry Trashes Bush in Baghdad
NewsMax.com ^ | Jan. 6, 2005 | Carl Limbacher

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."


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To: Carl/NewsMax

Email to news organizations:

Dear

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.


221 posted on 01/06/2005 10:38:53 AM PST by OKIEDOC (LL THE)
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To: Go Gordon
"He wants to be annointed Terrorism Czar because he heard Osama formally announced his main man in Iraq was Czar Kerry."

That's hillarious! Too bad so few will catch your Zarqawi pun...

222 posted on 01/06/2005 10:40:47 AM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: nuffsenuff
"Did they boo his sorry butt?"

I'm afraid that since he is still a U.S. Senator, booing him would be considered insubordination. Or something similar.

223 posted on 01/06/2005 10:45:34 AM PST by T.Smith
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To: Southack

Every time I see the word "Osama" I'm thinking "Obama". How is that going to help the new rising star?


224 posted on 01/06/2005 10:47:11 AM PST by Thebaddog (Dawgs on the coffee table.)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

Oh Tonk, your pics bring it all back...do you think that Lurch is trying to do with Iraq like he did with Viet Nam?


225 posted on 01/06/2005 10:49:52 AM PST by pelikan
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To: Southack

oh we'll be still be there in 2008 probably we'll be there for the next 10 years at least. thousand of people will be dead because jr. made a mistake. bummer....


226 posted on 01/06/2005 10:50:45 AM PST by mr_byebye
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To: Carl/NewsMax

Among the errors cited [about] the disgruntled Democrat...

continuing to run for the presidency after getting his ass kicked eight weeks ago.


227 posted on 01/06/2005 10:52:09 AM PST by SunkenCiv (the US population in the year 2100 will exceed a billion, perhaps even three billion.)
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To: Southack

LOL! Duh..... I hadn't caught it, thanks for the explanation.

I'm not usually this dense-normally I'm much denser.


228 posted on 01/06/2005 10:53:20 AM PST by F.J. Mitchell (McCain will slay a slew of Republican initiatives if he is able.)
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To: Southack
whose this hotty ???
229 posted on 01/06/2005 10:53:24 AM PST by mr_byebye
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donate donate donate donate


230 posted on 01/06/2005 10:55:34 AM PST by SunkenCiv (the US population in the year 2100 will exceed a billion, perhaps even three billion.)
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To: tillacum

Not that I know of.


231 posted on 01/06/2005 10:56:02 AM PST by cubreporter
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To: arizonarachel

Well .. maybe we should pile on the Pentagon and ask them why they allowed this TRAITOR to speak with our troops and speak evil of the President of the United States.

I'm really outraged about this. Hillary was bad enough .. but this idiot should has no business TELLING OUR TROOPS ANYTHING.

The decisions about the WAR are NOT his to make - he needs to shut up.


232 posted on 01/06/2005 10:56:09 AM PST by CyberAnt (Where are the dem supporters? - try the trash cans in back of the abortion clinics.)
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To: mr_byebye

Why am I suddenly drooling.........hope it isn't indicative of a stroke.........


233 posted on 01/06/2005 10:57:19 AM PST by F.J. Mitchell (McCain will slay a slew of Republican initiatives if he is able.)
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To: pelikan

"do you think that Lurch is trying to do with Iraq like he did with Viet Nam?"

Of course he is.

Once a traitor, always a traitor.



234 posted on 01/06/2005 10:58:18 AM PST by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (US Senate AND Main Stream Right Wing Media READ US Constitution 14th Amendment Section 3)
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To: Carl/NewsMax

"Jane Fonda" bump.


235 posted on 01/06/2005 10:58:43 AM PST by Ciexyz (I use the term Blue Cities, not Blue States. PA is red except for Philly, Pgh & Erie)
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To: mhking
What's Ketchup Boy doing in Baghdad?

Who knows? Maybe he wants to be Saddam's defense attorney.

236 posted on 01/06/2005 10:58:50 AM PST by Mark17
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To: Carl/NewsMax
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This ought to go over really well...
237 posted on 01/06/2005 11:01:08 AM PST by KMC1
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To: Carl/NewsMax

That's pretty damn low, even for John Kerry!


238 posted on 01/06/2005 11:08:48 AM PST by Patsygirl
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To: Justaham
"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.

Yeah, I wonder how many letters home he wrote in the four months he was there when he wasn't writing up medal recommendations for himself or making movies of his heroic exploits.

239 posted on 01/06/2005 11:10:06 AM PST by VRWCmember ("You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." - Indigo Montoya)
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To: Carl/NewsMax

When's sKerry going to share that marvelous plan of his with the rest of us?


240 posted on 01/06/2005 11:18:25 AM PST by TC Rider (The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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