Kerry: Bush officials 'so discredited' they're not relevant to Syria debate

The Hill ^

[Sub-Driver]

Kerry: Bush officials 'so discredited' they're not relevant to Syria debate By Julian Pecquet - 09/05/13 08:41 PM ET

Bush administration officials are “so discredited” by the war in Iraq that their criticism of President Obama on Syria is irrelevant, Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday.

Kerry's comments on MSNBC's “All in with Chris Hayes” come after former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday called Obama the nation's “so-called commander in chief.” And Bush's hawkish ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, said Tuesday he'd vote “no” to avoid “taking sides.”

“It just doesn't make a difference to me, because they're so discredited by their own judgments that it's hard to see that they have a judgment today that is relevant to this,” Kerry said. “I'll listen to people whose judgment I clearly trust and respect.”

Kerry went on to vow that the limited action considered for Syria won't turn into another Iraq or Afghanistan, the two wars that began under Bush.

“We are not presenting to the American people the same shoddy intelligence that was presented to the American people back in Iraq,” he said. “We will not put American boots on the ground. We will not take over a civil war in which the United States clearly has no interest being directly involved.”

Bush has decided to remain silent.

“The president's got a tough choice to make,” he told Fox News last week, "and if he decides to use our military, he'll have the greatest military ever backing him up.”

Kerry's appearance on the liberal show aimed to shore up support for the authorization to use force in Syria, which faces an uphill battle in the House.

While Republicans make up 80 of the 110 House members leaning towards voting “no,” according to The Hill's latest whip count, 30 are Democrats. Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) is even rallying support against the measure: His online petition had garnered more than 50,000 signatures as of Thursday evening.

[svcw]

SHUT UP you traitor!
Good lord, how did this mane not get shot decades ago?

[Billthedrill]

Kerry said. “I'll listen to people whose judgment I clearly trust and respect.”

Uh, look, Johnny, taking plastic surgery advice from Michael Jackson probably wasn't your finest moment. Just sayin'.

[faithhopecharity]

that might actually work... Lord knows nothing else he proposes does

[Diogenesis]

“I'll listen to people whose judgment I clearly trust and respect.”

"The former leader of the Islamic Society of Boston is Abdurahman Alamoudi,
who recently pled guilty to smuggling hundreds of thousands of dollars
from Libya’s Jihad fund, to plot the assassination of Saudi Prince Abdullah.
Another influential figure in the Islamic Society of Boston is the infamous
Sheikh Yusef al-Qaradawi, virulently anti-American spiritual leader
of the Muslim Brotherhood. Al-Qaradawi’s name was listed on the
Arabic language brochure for the ISB’s new mosque—but omitted from the English version.
Yet, the Boston Redevelopment Authority sold them the land
for their proposed new mosque—a vast complex estimated
to cost $22 million, much of which is coming from Saudi Arabia—
at far less than fair market value, and is now being sued
by concerned citizens of the area."

John Kerry was then the key beneficiary of Berger's Burglaries
Rescued: Data the Kerry/Edwards Campaign Tried to DELETE from its site! (grandpa dave found cache)

Kerry failed to act on pre-9/11 tip

[NonValueAdded]

FUJK

[novemberslady]

stay out of the balloon house Kerry...

[Gamecock]

[Carl Vehse]

John F’n Kerry is a traitor to the United States who should have been tried, convicted, sentenced, and hanged decades ago. So whatever he says now should have no more value than the dried poop left behind by the maggots who fed on his rotting corpse.

[Venturer]

96 Senators voted to accept this guy, Many of the people who he now calls discredited.

I hope they all still love this traitorous a-hole they put in high office.

[MeshugeMikey]

“beyond comedy”...and utterly SURRREAL...

in fact it may actually qualify as being beyond SURREAL given Kerry’s Huge foundation of undeniable GRAVITAS.

Mr. Discredited Himself has opened himself up for yet another MAD Magazine Cover with this batch o’ hooey!

[MeshugeMikey]

the unknown factor in the bottom photograph..most curious.

[marron]

“We will not put American boots on the ground. We will not take over a civil war in which the United States clearly has no interest being directly involved.”

The key word in the first sentence is "American" boots. We have boots on the ground, they just happen to be Al Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood.

The key word in the second sentence is "directly". We're working with the Turkish Army to run this op. So, no, not directly. Though, if you're an ambassador in Benghazi, it probably felt pretty "direct".

[HangnJudge]

Thanks to
WILLIAMBANZAI7

[beethovenfan]

No ...he’s just a prick, period.

[outofsalt]

Maybe he could use a new Sec Def

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Sub-Driver.

"We are not presenting to the American people the same shoddy intelligence that was presented to the American people back in Iraq," he said. "We will not put American boots on the ground. We will not take over a civil war in which the United States clearly has no interest being directly involved."

What's his FR nick?

[Girlene]

Uh, look, Johnny, taking plastic surgery advice from Michael Jackson probably wasn't your finest moment. Just sayin'.

lol....I thought it was Nancy Pelosi who had given him some advice on Botox.

[onedoug]

This is ridiculous. I want to see Kerry’s DD-214 right now.

[skeeter]

Leftists sure are nasty little cow chips, aren’t they.

[popdonnelly]

Way to go Kerry, toss out a gratuitous insult. Any Republican who votes for this crap is a stupid stooge of the Democrats. How many kicks in the ass can you take?