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Kerry demands US troop pullout - Regrets his vote for war resolution ("I WAS WRONG")
Boston Globe ^ | June 14, 2006 | Rick Klein, Globe Staff

Posted on 06/14/2006 4:37:20 AM PDT by 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."

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: basshole; douchebag; flipflopflipflop; hanoijohnny; heinz; iraq; jackasses; kerry; ketchup; ketchupboy; misternuance; rats; traitor; waronterror; wot
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To: Northern Yankee
You wonder just where are the brains of the dems these days?


21 posted on 06/14/2006 4:52:14 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: tdscpa
Next week he'll reverse his opinion as Bush's poll numbers continue to climb.

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

22 posted on 06/14/2006 4:52:21 AM PDT by Northern Yankee ( Stay The Course!)
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To: Chi-townChief

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


23 posted on 06/14/2006 4:52:27 AM PDT by JohnLongIsland
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To: Chi-townChief
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'.

24 posted on 06/14/2006 4:53:10 AM PDT by dangerfield
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To: Chi-townChief
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.

25 posted on 06/14/2006 4:53:41 AM PDT by SlowBoat407 (Truth is the new lie.)
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To: mewzilla
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.

26 posted on 06/14/2006 4:55:37 AM PDT by Northern Yankee ( Stay The Course!)
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To: Chi-townChief

"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)


27 posted on 06/14/2006 4:55:37 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: C210N

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.


28 posted on 06/14/2006 4:56:03 AM PDT by johnny7 (“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
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To: Chi-townChief

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


29 posted on 06/14/2006 4:57:18 AM PDT by usmcobra (A single rogue Marine, yeah that can happen, but a whole Unit, only a liberal would believe that BS)
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To: Northern Yankee

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


30 posted on 06/14/2006 4:57:35 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: AmericanMade1776
"Our soldiers cannot bring democracy to Iraq at the barrel of a gun." - J. F. Kerry

Yep... tell that to Zarqawi.

31 posted on 06/14/2006 4:58:04 AM PDT by Northern Yankee ( Stay The Course!)
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To: Chi-townChief
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.
32 posted on 06/14/2006 4:58:09 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Chi-townChief

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


33 posted on 06/14/2006 4:59:18 AM PDT by sergeantdave (And though getting up in the world attracts attention, it does not establish solid worth.)
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To: AmericanMade1776; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

John Kerry just inserted his foot into his mouth again.


34 posted on 06/14/2006 4:59:36 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: mewzilla
You are on fire this morning!

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

35 posted on 06/14/2006 5:00:35 AM PDT by Northern Yankee ( Stay The Course!)
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To: Chi-townChief


Pandering puke.


36 posted on 06/14/2006 5:00:42 AM PDT by onyx (Deport the trolls --- send them back to DU)
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To: Northern Yankee

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


37 posted on 06/14/2006 5:01:25 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: Chi-townChief

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


38 posted on 06/14/2006 5:02:07 AM PDT by listenhillary (Only the stupidest of animals fouls it's own nest - Democrats provide a fine example of this)
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To: Chi-townChief

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


39 posted on 06/14/2006 5:02:11 AM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll. 17,401+ snide replies and counting!)
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To: Chi-townChief

The very same day Bush goes to Baghdad.

Traitor.

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


40 posted on 06/14/2006 5:02:23 AM PDT by cvq3842
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