Posted on 05/27/2013 9:39:55 AM PDT by Nachum
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry straddled the diplomatic boundary this weekend between presenting the best face of America and a misleading one.
In a question-and-answer session with young Ethiopians on Sunday, Kerry exaggerated the U.S. record on climate change, appeared to conflate past U.S. policy on drones with President Barack Obama's new policy and gave an incomplete account of how he opposed the Iraq war. A day earlier, he struggled with economic data as well as the contents of his own department's terrorism blacklist.
Here's a look at how some of his statements measured up against the facts:
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KERRY on drones: "The only people that we are going after are confirmed terrorist targets, at the highest level. ... We will not fire when we know there are children or collateral damage. ... I am convinced that we have one of the strictest, most accountable and fairest programs."
THE FACTS: President Barack Obama's recently amended drone policy includes some of these elements, but that was not always the case. According to the New America Foundation, the CIA and U.S. military have killed 3,364 militants and civilians with drones over the last decade. Although the number of noncombatants killed is not known, the dead have not all been "highest level" terrorists.
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Isn’t this the jackass who threw SOMEBODY ELSE’S MEDALS over the fence at the White House?
JF’nK has always been a liar. Apparently, it is a requirement for holding the job as Sec. of State in the Obama administration.
These old 60’s activists are just reruns.
They do not fit in this era.
Didn't he vote for the war, before voting against it?
“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.”
— Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Oct. 9, 2002
LOL! Wow just funny. Yet it is nice to see this AP fact check. I won’t hold my breath for more article fact checks, after all it is AP!
“Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America’s response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real...”
— Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003
Our government is out of control!!! Obama, Holder, Kerry, the IRS, the State Department, the Military, Homeland Security, etc. are useless under the Obama takedown of America!!! America.......you all are in harms way!!!!
Yes.
Sheeesh.
He even lies about Ethiopia!
John Kerry has never been held responsible for anything he has said.
He called American soldiers war criminals, when he himself shot a disarmed Viet Cong Teen just to see how it felt to kill someone.
He tossed someone else’s medals while he saved his to hang in his Senate office. He got three Band-Aid wounds and claimed purple hearts. He went to Paris and met with our enemies. Traitor.
If he has never been held responsible for his statements, why should he think he will be held responsible now.
Only 4 Republicans voted against making this lying ,conniving ,Traitorous, piece of dung Secretary of State, so Fug the Republicans too, those sorry slime buckets.
..he’s been a coward since his early twenties and was able to convince some he may be knowledgeable. The more he talks, the more he exposes.
If everyone was as SMART as Kerry we would still be living in caves! You know why he got all those Purple Hearts so fast? So he could get out before his fellow service men fragged him!
5.56mm
Can you think of anyone more suited to represent the Obama State Department than Kerry?
Plastic, pretentious, he got his money by marriage, kickbacks and a government paycheck, bigoted, devoid of a soul, arguably a traitor to thousands of vets (and the USA), educated but lacking common sense and wisdom, over-confident, short-sighted....
While Obama’s “transformation of America” is running at full speed he openly claims he has no idea what is going on in any of the departments that operate under the umbrella of his administration.
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