Posted on 06/02/2006 9:06:05 AM PDT by slowhand520
Kerry Attacks Bush Over Iraq Policies The administration's choice of confrontation instead of diplomacy has harmed the U.S., the senator says in a speech in Los Angeles.
By Ashraf Khalil, Times Staff Writer June 2, 2006
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) harshly criticized the Bush administration for "disdaining diplomacy" in favor of a confrontational and unilateral foreign policy that has hurt the United States' standing around the world and made it less safe.
In a speech Thursday in Los Angeles, the former (and perhaps future) Democratic Party presidential candidate warned that the mistakes of Iraq must not be repeated in the current standoff with Iran.
"War is the ultimate failure of diplomacy," Kerry told a gathering of the Pacific Council on International Policy. "Yet our current leadership has arrogantly discarded this basic principle…. All too often they disdained diplomacy as little more than an inconvenient detour on the chosen path to armed conflict."
The result, he said, was an ill-advised rush to war in Iraq that alienated other governments and diminished sympathy for the U.S. generated by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. America's current isolation, and the presence of thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq, is "playing right into Iranian hands…. The Iranians are delighted," Kerry said.
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And that experience has shown him how geopolitically effective both short and long term that declaring a war is over and showing heels and ass can be, especially when the long term enemy is still interested in fighting and conquest.
JFK is seared in his memory. He has such a geat
image of himself, he lives vicfaiously with any
past politician ..Democrat, that is. He will be
pushing Ketchup all over the planet in '08...will he
outspend Hillary? Will Bill come up with a
Clintonism and sink him? Dems will be more entertaining
in '08...LOL.... Jake
Kerry's a do-nothing traitorous, backstabbing, neocopperhead.
Hasn't Tah Ray Sah cut off his allowance yet?
This is why these idiots must never be let back into power positions. War is the ultimate form of diplomacy. The military knows it is a tool of diplomacy... I know I knew it when I served...
Instead, these fools think that talking about problems is progress and acting to fix intractible situations is failure. May God have mercy on us all.
Kerry wins the 2006 Neville Chamberlain Award for his dedication to "peace in our time"........ of course, he's won the award just about every year for the past 35 or so years.
Memo to John "Vichy" Kerry: there are times when more "diplomacy" with dictators is merely appeasement and acquiescence with whatever they are doing. Kerry, for you and your fellow weasels surrender is always the first option, and retreat is a close second. Either way, you are dhimmis who will submit to any humiliation and degradation merely to pretend to preserve a fraudulent "peace" for a little bit longer.
"War is the ultimate failure of diplomacy," Kerry told a gathering of the Pacific Council on International Policy
So to this dork, diplomacy never fails and evil dictators always negotiate in good faith. Boy! there's a strong national defense policy.
"Those who doubted whether Iraq or the world would be better off without Saddam Hussein, and those who believe today that we are not safer with his capture, don't have the judgment to be President, or the credibility to be elected President.
No one can doubt or should doubt that we are safer -- and Iraq is better -- because Saddam Hussein is now behind bars."
Senator John Kerry (Democrat, Massachusetts)
Speech at Drake University in Iowa
December 16, 2003
http://www.jsonline.com/news/gen/dec03/193182.asp?format=print
"I think it was the right decision to disarm Saddam Hussein. And when the president made the decision, I supported him, and I support the fact that we did disarm him."
Senator John Kerry (Democrat, Massachusetts)
During a Democratic Primary Debate at the University of South Carolina
May 3, 2003
http://www.vote-smart.org/debate_transcripts/trans_1.pdf
"I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force - if necessary - to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security."
Senator John Kerry (Democrat, Massachusetts)
Addressing the US Senate
October 9, 2002
http://www.johnkerry.com/news/speeches/spc_2002_1009.html
"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime. We all know the litany of his offenses. He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation. He miscalculated an eight-year war with Iran. He miscalculated the invasion of Kuwait. He miscalculated America's response to that act of naked aggression. He miscalculated the result of setting oil rigs on fire. He miscalculated the impact of sending scuds into Israel and trying to assassinate an American President. He miscalculated his own military strength. He miscalculated the Arab world's response to his misconduct. And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction. That is why the world, through the United Nations Security Council, has spoken with one voice, demanding that Iraq disclose its weapons programs and disarm.
So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real, but it is not new. It has been with us since the end of the Persian Gulf War.
In U.N. Security Council Resolution 1441, the United Nations has now affirmed that Saddam Hussein must disarm or face the most serious consequences. Let me make it clear that the burden is resoundingly on Saddam Hussein to live up to the ceasefire agreement he signed and make clear to the world how he disposed of weapons he previously admitted to possessing."
Senator John Kerry (Democrat, Massachusetts)
Speech at Georgetown University
January 23, 2003
http://kerry.senate.gov/bandwidth/cfm/record.cfm?id=189831
Just A Gigolo
Words & Music by Julius Brammer, Irving Caesar & Leonello Casucci
Recorded by Louis Armstrong, 1930
Just a gigolo, everywhere I go
People know the part I'm playing;
Paid for every dance, selling each romance
Every night some heart be - tray - ing.
There will come a day youth will pass away --
Then what will they say about me?
When the end comes, I know, they'll say, "Just a gi-go-lo"
As life goes on with - out me.
Has Harry Truman announced the withdrawal timetable for Korea yet?
I tell ya, its those pickled raisins missus theeeerrrrzzzzaaaa makes....screws up his mind and he thinks there are 2 United States of Americas, and he heads one of them....
Thanks for posting those great cartoons -- they are still applicable.
More Kerry traitor ping
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