Kerry on Mideast conflct: 'If I was president, this wouldn't have happened'...

Drudge ^ | 7/23/2006 | Valerie Olander

[aceintx]

Kerry knocks Bush on handling of Mideast conflict

Valerie Olander / The Detroit News

U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D- Mass., who was in town Sunday to help Gov. Jennifer Granholm campaign for her re-election bid, took time to take a jab at the Bush administration for its lack of leadership in the Israeli-Lebanon conflict.

"If I was president, this wouldn't have happened," said Kerry during a noon stop at Honest John's bar and grill in Detroit's Cass Corridor.

Bush has been so concentrated on the war in Iraq that other Middle East tension arose as a result, he said.

"The president has been so absent on diplomacy when it comes to issues affecting the Middle East," Kerry said. "We're going to have a lot of ground to make up (in 2008) because of it."

Kerry lost by a narrow margin to Bush in 2004 and plans to seek the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 2008.

Today marks the 12th day of fighting between Israel and Lebanon. Israel launched air strikes after Hezbollah militants, whom operate within Lebanon, kidnapped two Israeli soldiers in an attempt to swap them for prisoners.

Israel began a ground invasion, sending tanks and troops across the border as thousands of Lebanese have fled to escape the fighting.

Hezbollah guerillas should have been targeted with other terrorist organizations, such as al-Qaida and the Taliban, which operate in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Kerry said. However, Bush, has focused military strength on Iraq.

"This is about American security and Bush has failed. He has made it so much worse because of his lack of reality in going into Iraq.…We have to destroy Hezbollah," he said.

[aceintx]

Kerry would have supported Isreal before He voted not to.....

[aceintx]

Is there anything this guy can't do....we should make him President...he's such a know it all!!

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Kerry lost by a narrow margin to Bush in 2004 and plans to seek the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 2008.

Really?! Has anyone told Hillary!?

[Crim]

So Mr Kerry...are you saying you would have INVADED Lebanon to take out hezbolla?

Er...eh...no...

[Republican Wildcat]

Shew. Mental illness is a terrible thing.

[Paleo Conservative]

"If I was president, this wouldn't have happened," said Kerry during a noon stop at Honest John's bar and grill in Detroit's Cass Corridor.

He's pandering to a Muzzie crowd in Detroit. Obviously "Honest John" doesn't refer to John Kerry.

[Hugin]

"If I was president there would be world peace, the streeets would be paved with gold, and we would all live in candy castles with lemonaide moats."

[aragona]

The Big Dig and tunnel disaster/fiasco happened under his watch. While corruption, murder, and chaos run rampant in his hometown, he tries to convince people that things would be better if he was in charge. Jeez, what a moron.

[msnimje]

Why is it he can solve all the world's complicated problems yet he has been unable to get a single piece of meaningful legislation passed in the US Senate?

[Bush gal in LA]

Please, please, somebody make Lurch shut up!!!,,,,,and Dean too..........

[attiladhun2]

If Yon ibn Qerri were elected Pres. the tsunami wouldn't have happened, there would be world peace by now, the birds would sing sweeter, the grass would be greener, we'd all be drinking free Bubble-Up and eating that rainbow stew.

[American in Singapore]

There is an upside to Kerry flapping his gums and making himself look like the idiot, sack-of-s^^t that he is: I get to hear Rush's Kerry impression, which is pretty damned funny!

[Brad from Tennessee]

When Kerry was named to co-chair the Senate Committee investigating U.S. POWs and MIAs in Indochina many in Congress thought if anyone could clear up this controversy it would be a "war hero." Not only did Kerry hide, cover-up and shred evidence, his cousin, Stuart Forbes got a multi-billion-dollar contract from communist Vietnam to build ports and other infrastructure. He comes out of the most corrupt political machine in America. The same one that built the Big Dig.

[pillut48]

...and Christopher Reeve would be walking.

He'd be dead, but he'd still be walking.

Wait a minute, that's not quite right...

[hsalaw]

Kerry said. "We're going to have a lot of ground to make up (in 2008) because of it."

So many terrorists to surrender to; so little time.

[M1 Garand 30-06]

Who's Kerry?

[goresalooza]

Add to that...Christopher Reeve would be alive and walking.

LOL@Yon Ibn Qerri....good one!

[Salamander]

"If I was president, this wouldn't have happened,"

If frogs had wings they wouldn't bruise their @sses so much.

[rawcatslyentist]

>"Who's Kerry?"

Johnny's a Hero..... a VC Hero!

Zippo Hero

Seven Dead Monkeys Page O Tunes

[Salamander]

It's happened before;

[attiladhun2]

And there's Jimmu ibn Qarter, Tedi ibn Qenedi, Bil ibn Qalinton, Ali Ghor al-Oudi, and Yon al-Murtha--not just Dhimmis, but jihadi enablers.

[goldstategop]

Kerry would have been against Hezbollah before he was for it. Just like the French.

(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em, Down Hezbullies.)

[napscoordinator]

Why is it he can solve all the world's complicated problems yet he has been unable to get a single piece of meaningful legislation passed in the US Senate?



Thank God! Can you imagine the legislation he would try to pass. Remember big difference between what we think is meaningful and what he does. I would rather him not do anything and blabber on about nothing because it makes him more foolish.

[Luke Skyfreeper]

"If I was president, this wouldn't have happened."

Damn straight. If you'd been elected President, we would've withdrawn from Iraq by now and defending ourselves from Islamofascist uprisings in Detroit and Chicago.

[WashingtonStateRepublican]

If John Kerry 'were' President..... I don't think ANYTHING would have happened.

Thank the good Lord that he's Not President!

[ECM]

Man, all the ingredients that make dentists dream sweet dreams.

[skimask]

If I were President.........

[Roy Tucker]

Don't tell me...he had a plan. He can't reveal it right now but he has a plan that he will unveil when elected.

[Redcloak]

Is it true that John Kerry served in Vietnam?

[Zeon Cowboy]

Yeah, right, and there would have been no September 11 attacks if Gore had won in 2000!

What a jackass.

[dennisw]

John Kerry is still a useless backbencher in the Senate. He has never achieved anything of note there. Love him or hate him, you read of Arlen Spector, Chuck Schumer, Hillary and John Cornyn in the Senate. When have you ever read of John Kerry's activities? He's a jerk and a misfit who has no socializing ability with his Senate colleagues and exhibits zero leadership capabilities there. Yet he wants to lead this nation and STUPIDLY BOASTS how he could have done better with this Lebanon/Israel conflict

 

[radiohead]

Jebus, Mary and Joseph. Does this man ever just STF up??

He reams the President and then says we have to get rid of Hezbollah. What does he think GWB is letting Israel do?

[EQAndyBuzz]

"Kerry on Mideast conflct: 'If I was president, this wouldn't have happened'..."

EQ on MIdeast conflict: "'If I was president, this wouldn't have happened'..."

Just as relevant...

[ChiMark]

What a two faced coward Kerry is! Say,do Muslims use ketchup?

[highlander_UW]

Did Druge get this from Scrappleface?! Even Kerry can't be this silly EVERY SINGLE TIME some event comes about!

[calex59]

If Yon ibn Qerri were elected Pres. the tsunami wouldn't have happened, there would be world peace by now, the birds would sing sweeter, the grass would be greener, we'd all be drinking free Bubble-Up and eating that rainbow stew.

You forgot that all paraplegics would walk again under Kerry's presidency!

[SR 50]

ping

[hershey]

He never shuts up.

[Just mythoughts]

Then why has JFKerry NOT gotten a 'peace' deal all worked out? He was not president in the 70's when he went to Paris and hammered a few well place nails in that peace deal.

[punster]

They call him FUBAR, like in John FUBAR Kerry. If Kaptain Ketchup were President, the terrorists would feel free to over-run the entire world. Kerry is such a monumental screw-up, no wonder so many people think he is a sanctimonious ass.

[AmericaUnited]

Kerry is scarier than Iran and North Korea combined!

[dirtbiker]

You forgot that all paraplegics would walk again under Kerry's presidency!

I believe that was the other John's department, Johnnie Edwards, the medical malpractice lawyer...

[Fresh Wind]

He'd be dead, but he'd still be walking voting.

There, fixed.

[dirtboy]

"If I was president, this wouldn't have happened," said Kerry

Hmmm - can I saw what I want to say about Lurch under the posting guidelines?

Hmmm ... nope.

[dirtboy]

"If I was president, this wouldn't have happened," said Kerry

He has a plan - he'd compare the Israelis to Ghenghis Khan. That would show them.

[HighWheeler]

"So Mr Kerry...are you saying you would have INVADED Lebanon to take out hezbolla?"

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Of course not, Crim, he said:

"Hezbollah guerillas should have been targeted..."

In other words, just point at them and tell them to stop. Or else. That's all that Kerry would need to do to stop them from fighting, just "target" them.

[brityank]

"If I was president, this wouldn't have happened," said Kerry ...

He's right; he would have surrendered on September 12, 2001 and followed the lead of that other great Democrat Middle-East expert Jimmy Carter.

Quisling Benedicts, all.

[Dixie Yooper]

"Kerry lost by a narrow margin to Bush in 2004"

Kerry lost by a margin consistent with the margin of one who loses.

[RetSignman]

"We're going to have a lot of (appeasement) to make up (in 2008) because of it."

[bikerman]

only on camel dung.