Kerry demands US troop pullout - Regrets his vote for war resolution ("I WAS WRONG")

Boston Globe ^ | June 14, 2006 | Rick Klein, Globe Staff

[Chi-townChief]

WASHINGTON -- Senator John F. Kerry is placing himself at the center of congressional action over the war in Iraq this week with a crisply worded resolution to require President Bush to withdraw almost all US troops by the end of this year.

The measure has exposed Kerry to attacks from Republicans and some Democrats, as critics rushed to tag the plan as a ``cut-and-run" strategy. But it also has made him a rallying point for antiwar activists.

The sweeping resolution amounts to the senator's sharpest condemnation of the war and his broadest repudiation of his own vote to authorize force. It also stands in contrast to his handling of the war issue during his campaign for president two years ago.

``My friends, war is no excuse for its own perpetuation," Kerry said before a group of cheering liberal activists who had gathered in Washington yesterday for a ``Take Back America" conference. ``It is essential to acknowledge that the war itself was a mistake -- to say the simple words that contain more truth than pride. . . . It was wrong and I was wrong to vote for that Iraqi war resolution."

[Chi-townChief]

Somehow, I just don't think that Ketchup Boy is in a position to demand much of anything (except maybe for an increase in his allowance from Teresa.)

[roaddog727]

J F'n K needs to STFU, sit down, and go back to feeding Momma T her meds.

[pikachu]

This guy regrets doing anything and wantes to take back any vote he did make.

[zarf]

Kerry has no clue how he comes across does he?

Sometimes I don't no who's the biggest jerk: Kerry or Edwards.

[C210N]

crisply worded resolution to require President Bush to withdraw almost...

WOW! I Just love those crisp words. Like "almost". Its as if tomorrow he wants to have the option to claim the opposite.

[highlander_UW]

Can we get a constitutional amendment passed that requires liberals like Kerry to wear a dunce cap anytime they go out in public? This guy flip flops more than a flea on the back of a wet dog.

[mtbopfuyn]

And yet folks keep voting for him and Teddy.

[joonbug]

"I was wrong, before I was right, before I was wrong..."

[Northern Yankee]

Gee... cut and run Kerry.

Who'd a thunk?

He only has done that his entire life. From Vietnam, to his first marriage.

How pathetic. And this guy ran for President?

Sheesh!

[isthisnickcool]

This idiot has a god complex.

[cbkaty]

Would anyone buy a used car from this schlickmeister?

[Farmer Dean]

And he thinks he can run again and win.Just PATHETIC!

[dawn53]

We need a "flip flop" picture to go along with this thread.

[mewzilla]

[tdscpa]

Kerry: I was wrong!

Total consistency. Kerry is always wrong.

[Northern Yankee]

Yeah... a real hero!

You wonder just where are the brains of the dems these days?

[Maceman]

He just gets stupider and stupider.

[MountainMenace]

Does this mean he was against it before he voted for it?

[SlowBoat407]

One "JK Flip Flop" coming up!

[mewzilla]

You wonder just where are the brains of the dems these days?

[Northern Yankee]

Next week he'll reverse his opinion as Bush's poll numbers continue to climb.

"Hey... I voted for the war."

[JohnLongIsland]

lurch is flip flopping on his flip flops, this could and still might be your president... or algore or the beast.

[dangerfield]

Didn't Kerry worry that President Bush might "cut and run"?

At one point?

I remember that being one of the most ludicrous charges he made toward Bush, that he might suddenly get weak and cave to 'pressure'.

[SlowBoat407]

It was wrong and I was wrong to vote for that Iraqi war resolution.

This man was within several thousand votes of being our president. Thank you, Ohio.

[Northern Yankee]

LOL...

I see that all the time with the dems that I work with. (not the picture, but the concept! ;) )

Not an ounce of sense.

[AmericanMade1776]

"No matter how brave our soldiers are, no matter how valiant, no matter what their caring," said US Senator John Kerry, pictured here, "Our soldiers cannot bring democracy to Iraq at the barrel of a gun." Opposition Democrats used President George W. Bush's secret visit to Iraq as an opportunity to renew their calls for speedy end to America's military involvement there.(AFP/Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla)

[johnny7]

The fact that this miserable turd ran for president is a national disgrace. I bet he spends his nights awake... questioning his right to exist.

[usmcobra]

For a man of so many varied and often opposite positions, Kerry takes exceptional pride in being wrong about all of them.

[mewzilla]

If they get any worse, they'll need a scanning electron proctoscope to find any grey cells left...

[Northern Yankee]

"Our soldiers cannot bring democracy to Iraq at the barrel of a gun." - J. F. Kerry

Yep... tell that to Zarqawi.

[Just mythoughts]

IF JFKerry wants that liberal nomination alllll he has to do is leak the Barrett Report..... Until then he is pretending to want to be a 'peace' president.

[sergeantdave]

We need to invade Heinz ketchup and shut Lord Haw-Haw down.

[AmericanMade1776]

John Kerry just inserted his foot into his mouth again.

[Northern Yankee]

You are on fire this morning!

Of course when we have the likes of Kerry to work with, it almost seems too easy. ; )

[onyx]

Pandering puke.

[mewzilla]

Jean Francois is truly the gift that keeps on giving :)

[listenhillary]

Kerry you didn't get elected as CIC, so no have no right to "demand" anything.

[theDentist]

Another "Lookat Me!" moment by the losing candidate.

[cvq3842]

The very same day Bush goes to Baghdad.

Traitor.

The contrast between the Republicans and the Democrats couldn't be clearer.

[Northern Yankee]

John Kerry just inserted his foot into his mouth again.

I am trying to remember if he ever took it out?

[Northern Yankee]

Must be that Nuance` style of his.

What's his butler doing these days?

[cvq3842]

Good article!

[sgtbono2002]

The biggest jerks are the people of Mass. who keep bringing this crap back to the Senate year after year.

Is there any way we can force mass. to secede?

[verity]

A man without honor.

[Humble Servant]

"Kerry has no clue how he comes across does he?"

I just LOVE that Kerry picks the morning Bush is in Baghdad shaking the hands of the new PM and his cabinet, days after the elimination of the enemy's leader and his "spiritual leader" (I still can't square spiritual leadership with sawing off the heads of people who came to help people, but then I'm not a lib), with poll numbers showing a big turnaround for the American public's perception that we will win this war, to come out with his most definitve, hard to renounce postion against the war yet.

ALL RIGHT, ALL YOU MOONBATS, STAND TOGETHER OVER THERE WHERE WE CAN SEE YOU, WITH THAT TRAITOROUS S.O.B. KERRY!

[hawkaw]

What a loser. How in the hell did the Rats ever nominate such a goof.

[KenD]

Hatred can make the most intelligent do and say stupid things.

My brother, who has expressed hatred of GWB, swallows all of the trash from the press that is anti-bush. He does genetic research and has PhD and MD degrees from Duke and yet his ability to apply critical thought processes to politics with GWB in the White House has disappeared.

I don't understand it and we just don't bring up politics on the rare occasions when we do talk.

[C210N]

"Our soldiers cannot bring democracy to Iraq at the barrel of a gun." - J. F. Kerry

Sometime, over 200 years ago, some folks here in America created a democracy at the barrel of a gun.

[Humble Servant]

"We need a "flip flop" picture to go along with this thread."

I'm thinking of making a waffle iron with Kerry's caricature in the design. Any takers? How much would you pay? Well don't answer, because we're not going to charge you anything! That's right, it's all FREEEE! We just raise your taxes by (only seventy-five installments of) $19.95, and it's all FREEEE!!!