Kerry Says Bush, Cheney Must 'Apologize' Over Iraq

Yahoo! News ^ | October 12, 2003 | Reuters

[Bubba_Leroy]

DemocRATic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) said on Sunday President Bush (news - web sites) and Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) should apologize for misleading the American people about the war in Iraq (news - web sites) and called the international fighting force there a "fraud."

Kerry criticized Bush and Cheney for justifying the war, in part, by saying Iraq was "on the road" to building nuclear weapons, which the senator said has been proven not to be true.

He also slammed the administration for not working adequately with the international community to win backing for the war and not building the broad military coalition in Iraq that was promised.

"I'm asserting very clearly that they misled America," Kerry said on ABC's "This Week" news program. "I think the president and Vice President Cheney should be apologizing to America," he added.

Kerry said the shortage of international troops fighting in Iraq created a "fraudulent coalition" because the forces are mainly from the United States and the United Kingdom, and there was not enough participation from other countries.

"We have a fraudulent coalition, and I use the word fraud," Kerry said. "It's a few people here, a few people there," he added.

Kerry said the Bush administration should be faulted for rushing to war with Iraq "without a plan for the peace," and now asking U.S. taxpayers to pay $87 billion to rebuild Iraq and maintain troops.

"This administration did not have a plan, still does not have an adequate plan for how you minimize the cost to Americans and minimize the threat to our troops," he said.

Kerry said he was "inclined" to vote against the president's $87 billion package that is being considered by Congress, if he can't convince lawmakers to make changes to the funding proposal.

[NonValueAdded]

Seems to me that Kerry is the fraud.

[Peach]

Memo to Kerry: Hold your breath waiting for that apology, you POS.

If anyone should apologize, it's Kerry who would rather see the Iraqis being murdered and raped and tortured.

[sinkspur]

Lurch is a stiff.

Fading fast, so he's trying to get a headline.

[WHBates]

Exactly what did they mislead us about? I still very confused about this claim.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

Dear Ketchup Boy:

STFU.

Sincerely,

JR

(ps...did you know he was in Vietnam?!)

[sweetliberty]

Gee, I didn't realize that Bush and Cheney were taking their orders from from Kerry. What a hateful and disgusting little man.

[Bubba_Leroy]

"[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."
- Letter to President Clinton, signed by Sens. Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and others Oct. 9, 1998

"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

"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

[onyx]

Did Lurch neglect to mention his Vietnam stint?

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[umgud]

I really liked an email Tony Snow read on Fox today. The emailer said that if WMD's don't exist because we haven't found them, then Saddamn Husein doesn't exist because we haven't found him either.

[Aeronaut]

"I think the president and Vice President Cheney should be apologizing to America," he [Kerry, a Vietnam veteran] added.

Pound sand Ketchup boy!

[lavrenti]

Kerry is fast becoming the Pedro Martinez of American politics.

[Clara Lou]

"We have a fraudulent coalition, and I use the word fraud," Kerry said. "It's a few people here, a few people there," he added.
I see-- it doesn't qualify as a coalition if Kerry doesn't approve it. Politicians are frauds.

[cp124]

You mean the Jeff "Gutless" Nelson of American Politics.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Kerry's remarks are a perfect example of the brain dead Democrat politicians in general. They are confused, they can't understand, they are idiots lacking comprehension and suffering from terminal attention deficiency disorder and thus think they have been misled, when they are just absent minded; and in desperation attempt to convince everyone else that we have all been misled, so they won't feel alone and isolated in their foggy minded stupor.

[A CA Guy]

Kerry needs to get a laugh track added to all his comments at this point.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

This just in: "The French-looking Senator Kerry demands that Bush and Cheney surrender to Iraq immediately"

[The Wizard]

can you spell a-s-s h-o-l-e

[Texas Eagle]

Yo, Mr. Heinz. You might want to read this:


http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2003/10/11/145715.shtml

Saturday Oct. 11, 2003; 2:37 p.m. EDT
Saddam's Forgotten WMD Confession

The elite media continues to insist that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction when the U.S. attacked in March, citing the scant evidence of any actual weapons finds by U.S. arms inspector David Kay.

But if it's true that Saddam Hussein was actually innocent on the WMD charge, then why did he confess in 1998 that his country had amassed huge stockpiles of highly toxic weaponized poisons - along with the delivery systems to take them beyond Iraq's borders.

That's right - lost in the debate over why U.S. weapons inspectors have yet to uncover the Iraqi version of the Manhattan Project is this salient factoid: Not only did Saddam's regime admit to possessing thousands of tons of lethal chemical and biological agents - Baghdad gave a detailed inventory of their WMD arsenal to the United Nations.

This week's Weekly Standard revisits Baghdad's 1998 WMD mea culpa - complete with a laundry list of the frightening weapons that the press continues to suggest were a figment of the Bush administration's imagination.

Just before Iraq kicked out U.N. weapons inspectors in 1998, Saddam admitted he had:

• At least 3.9 tons of deadly VX nerve gas, along with 805 tons of precursor ingredients for the production of more VX.

• 4,000 tons of ingredients to produce other types of poison gas.

• 8,500 liters of anthrax.

• 500 bombs fitted with parachutes for the purpose of delivering poison gas or germ payloads.

• 550 artillery shells filled with mustard gas.

• 107,500 casings for chemical weapons.

• 157 aerial bombs filled with germ agents.

• 25 missile warheads containing germ agents, including anthrax, aflatoxin, and botulinum.

Again, the above arsenal is NOT what U.S. or European intelligence suspected Baghdad had. These are the WMD's that Saddam himself admitted he had.

It's also worth noting that the overwhelming majority of the WMDs Saddam confessed to went completely undetected by U.N. weapons inspectors who combed Iraq for 12 years.

Still, thanks to the media's five-month-long campaign to discredit the Iraq war - not to mention the horrible job done by the White House public relations team - most Americans have no idea that questions about whether Iraq was in recent possession of WMD's have already been answered - and answered by no less an authority than Saddam Hussein himself.


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