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Real Hardball by John Kerry (this full-of-himself idiot posted at daily Kos website)
dailykos ^ | Fri Jan 20, 2006 at 03:52:31 PM PDT | J Kerry

Posted on 01/20/2006 7:06:55 PM PST by dennisw

There's something that doesn't sit right with me when, on the day Osama Bin Laden resurfaced in a disturbing audio tape, cable television ends up in a game of name calling as a war protester is compared to Osama Bin Laden.

That's reason to be outraged - but even more outrageous is the fact that in a flurry of sound bites what was lost was a real discussion of the fact that more than four years after the devastating attacks of 9/11, more than four years after George Bush boasted we wanted Osama "dead or alive," more than a year after Osama Bin Laden showed his hateful face in yet another video, this barbarian is still very much alive and boasting of additional attacks against the United States.

John Kerry's diary :: :: Here's what I'd like to see debated on Hardball.

President Bush's mouthpiece Scott McClellan can claim this administration puts terrorists out of business, but yesterday's tape reminds us that instead of being out of business, Osama is still out there.

If this administration had followed through on the opportunity to capture Osama Bin Laden at Tora Bora in 2001, the world would be a better place with Osama Bin Laden brought to justice -- and we wouldn't be having this discussion today.

And here's what the media should insist we discuss.

President Bush and his defenders continue to claim that Osama Bin Laden didn't escape at Tora Bora. But Gary Bernstein's book Jawbreaker documents what I said early in 2002 and during my debates with George Bush: that because Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon didn't use American troops to do the job and instead outsourced the job of killing the world's #1 terrorist to Afghan warlords, this cold blooded killer got away.

So what's the truth? There's a question that the full force of cable television should demand be answered. Press accounts over the last month have raised new concerns about the reliance on Afghan forces at Tora Bora in 2001. One account cited a Department of Defense document said to summarize the case against a suspected al Qaeda militant. The militant was believed to have helped Osama bin Laden escape from Tora Bora. More recently, August Hanning, the head of German intelligence, has said bin Laden bribed Afghan forces at Tora Bora to make his escape.

The evidence keeps mounting:

Isn't it time we had the truth? Yes or no, did Osama Bin Laden escape from Tora Bora in 2001?

Here's a subject suited for true hard ball, on Hardball: four years of failure - enough is enough - why hasn't Osama Bin Laden been captured or killed, and how will he be destroyed before he next appears on tape to spread his disgusting message?

That discussion -- rather than criticizing American citizens who exercise their right to free speech and express dissenting opinions - is the discussion that America needs. That would be the kind of debate on Hardball to which we should all tune in.

John Kerry

P.S. I want you all to know that I’m reading your many comments. My wife Teresa reads blogs passionately, and I follow blogs too, and I’m glad I can be a part of this – and frankly I’m not worried about taking some slings and arrows along the way. I’ve faced worse! So keep the comments coming -- good, bad, hopefully not indifferent.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: binladen; dailykos; johnfkerrysucks; kerry; kerry2008; kos
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To: dennisw

Jean Francois Querrie became the Democrat nominee by fluke. Until a couple of days before the IA caucuses he didn't have snow in Hell's chance, and now he thinks he is the automatic front runner for 08 and the voice of the Democrats. I still don't know who the F*** this guy is.


21 posted on 01/20/2006 7:23:03 PM PST by HarmlessLovableFuzzball
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To: dennisw
"more than four years after George Bush boasted we wanted Osama "dead or alive," more than a year after Osama Bin Laden showed his hateful face in yet another video, this barbarian is still very much alive and boasting of additional attacks against the United States"--- John F'ing Kerry

And more than four years have gone by with John Kerry in the Senate doing absolutely NOTHING about bin Laden except whine to the media like a spoiled little rich boy about President Bush.

Maybe John can volunteer for Afghanistan duty and finally earn those phoney purple hearts he scammed out of Vietnam. I served in Vietnam during the approx. same time Kerry did, and I'm from his home state, and I can say categorically that most Vietnam verterans detest this poor excuse of a man.

22 posted on 01/20/2006 7:23:13 PM PST by TheCrusader ("The frenzy of the mohammedans has devastated the Churches of God" Pope Urban II ~ 1097A.D.)
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To: dennisw

How on Earth can we know if it's Kerry or not? It's probably just some troll trying to make a splash.


23 posted on 01/20/2006 7:23:40 PM PST by marsh_of_mists
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To: dennisw
Poor John.....still doesn't know the truth....
Still hasn't proposed WHAT he would do differently - and why that would be better than what we're already doing...

The smarmy bastard is good for nothing but bitching and crying....
The little girlyman -- behaves like he still squats to pee.

F'em, the lying, posing, traitorous bastard.

Semper Fi
24 posted on 01/20/2006 7:24:46 PM PST by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: dennisw

25 posted on 01/20/2006 7:25:17 PM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: dennisw

Hey John!

Come to FreeRepublic and read what WE'RE saying about you...

Have you signed your SF180 and released ALL the documents to determine who was lying ---- You or the SBVT...

My money in on you as the liar...

Semper Fi


26 posted on 01/20/2006 7:26:33 PM PST by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: BigTom85

27 posted on 01/20/2006 7:26:34 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: dennisw
on the day Osama Bin Laden resurfaced in a disturbing audio tape, cable television ends up in a game of name calling as a war protester is compared to Osama Bin Laden.

The best thing about the lefties gettin' all angry about this?

Not ONE of them can deny the truth of it--they DO all sound just like Bin Laden. So, like the fool Kerry, they change the subject.

He's now entering the AL Gore-level of embarassment, shouting for attention, pretending he is a player.

28 posted on 01/20/2006 7:26:41 PM PST by Darkwolf377
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To: dennisw
If this administration had followed through on the opportunity to capture Osama Bin Laden at Tora Bora in 2001, the world would be a better place with Osama Bin Laden brought to justice -- and we wouldn't be having this discussion today.

If the previous administration had followed through on the 2 airstrikes and/or accepted the offer from the Sudanese government of Osama on a platter anytime between 1998 and 2000, 9/11 would have never happened -- and we wouldn't be having this discussion today.

29 posted on 01/20/2006 7:26:44 PM PST by infidel29 ("We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." --Benjamin Franklin)
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To: river rat
"F'em, the lying, posing, traitorous bastard."

LOL, I like your style.

30 posted on 01/20/2006 7:26:48 PM PST by TheCrusader ("The frenzy of the mohammedans has devastated the Churches of God" Pope Urban II ~ 1097A.D.)
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To: Darkwolf377
How long after we declared war on Germany was Adolph Hitler certified as dead?

About three and a half years, unless you want to get into speculation that Hitler didn't really die in the bunker on April 30th, 1945. For devotees of the latter theory, Adolf will celebrate his 117th birthday this April 20th.

31 posted on 01/20/2006 7:26:59 PM PST by Denver Ditdat (Leftist New Year's resolution: force Christians into the closets vacated by gays)
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To: Tennessean4Bush

You know he's a loser ... one of 18 people across the U.S. that watches Hardball.


32 posted on 01/20/2006 7:27:04 PM PST by BW2221
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To: dennisw

33 posted on 01/20/2006 7:29:04 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: HarmlessLovableFuzzball
I still don't know who the F*** this guy is.

Makes you even.

Neither does he.

34 posted on 01/20/2006 7:29:18 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: dennisw
If this administration had followed through on the opportunity to capture Osama Bin Laden at Tora Bora in 2001,

John, you ignorant slut. Let's not even go to the "missed opportunities" gold mine.

35 posted on 01/20/2006 7:29:30 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (What? Me worry?)
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To: dennisw

He really posted that? What is it with loser Dem presidential candidates and going extreme left? Not that Kerry wasn't leftist before the election but he masked it pretty well. (See also Algore)


36 posted on 01/20/2006 7:30:17 PM PST by chet_in_ny
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To: marsh_of_mists
How on Earth can we know if it's Kerry or not? It's probably just some troll trying to make a splash.

We can't know, for sure.

But it sure sounds like him. As if, more accurately, it were written by one of his writers...

37 posted on 01/20/2006 7:31:16 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: Denver Ditdat; Darkwolf377
I believe the poster's point was that, even though Hitler was dead, we didn't know for sure (i.e., certify) until 40-50 years later.
38 posted on 01/20/2006 7:34:47 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: Denver Ditdat

So I guess Kerry will soon be calling FDR a failure in his execution of WW2.


39 posted on 01/20/2006 7:35:15 PM PST by Darkwolf377
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To: HarmlessLovableFuzzball

He has had one over-riding passion, thought, desire from the time he was about 6 years old -- to be President of the United States.... he thought he'd finally married someone rich enough to buy him the office he covets, but even she doesn't have enough money to buy him a personality.


40 posted on 01/20/2006 7:35:28 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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