Posted on 06/16/2006 4:00:35 PM PDT by bitt
JOHN Kerry has joined John Murtha and other Democrats in saying he erred in voting for the liberation of Iraq.
"It is essential to acknowledge that the war itself was a mistake. . . . It was wrong, and I was wrong to vote for that Iraqi war resolution," Kerry told a Democratic Party gathering in Washington this week.
If the junior senator from Massachusetts truly believes that his judgment was so clouded that he sent thousands of American men and women to their deaths needlessly, then he should do the honorable thing and resign from Congress.
Senators and congressmen who stand by their votes nearly four years later do not have this problem.
But I have a major problem with those who send in 150,000 troops only to abandon the cause in a year (in Murtha's case) or three (in Kerry's case).
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.com ...
You are far too forgiving!
I always respected the Japanese Samurai traditions.....
Seppuku (Hari-Kari)is how REAL earn forgiveness....
Semper Fi
thanks for your great post...i gotta put it on my hot links
and print them all out...
Those Dems...they think everyone forgets what they did...
what a bunch of clowns....
It is a pathetic reminder that they are doing it cause
they think they can get more folks to believe it from a
completely forgetful (in many, many cases) public pool.
Hypothetical interview with John Kerry (where Kerry is unable to tell a lie)
Interviewer: Mr Kerry, why did you vote for the Iraq war to begin with?
Kerry: Because I thought it would help me get elected President.
Interviewer: Why do you now say that was a mistake?
Kerry: Obvious isn't it. It didn't work. I'm still just a flunky Senator. You got any hard questions?
Very nice!
Can I suggest one more addition, which will make it perfect, and also directly relatable to Murtha?
Victory - 403 - 93 - 256
Cut & Run - 3 - 6 - 153
(I know the 403-3 was from late last year, but it is indicative of the utter foolishness of these leftists. Don't get me wrong, the graphic is great as it stands.)
Excellent article!
That Pinch Sulzberger gave a graduation speech at a college and all he could say/cry is how sorry he was about how horrible to world is that they are now going out into.
I just don't get these people!!!???
Make-up? Naw , he should burn in hell with his soul mate ,Zarqawi.
Worth repeating.
You are most welcome!
When liberals say that this is Bush's War or that Bush statred all this talk leading to Iraq I show them these quotes that were made before Bush was even in Washington DC.
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"If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow by the knowledge that they can act with impunity, even in the face of a clear message from the United Nations Security Council and clear evidence of a weapons of mass destruction program."
President Clinton
Address to Joint Chiefs of Staff and Pentagon staff
February 17, 1998
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"Iraq is a long way from Ohio, but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face."
Madeleine Albright, President Clinton's Secretary of State
Town Hall Meeting on Iraq at Ohio State University
February 18, 1998
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"Imagine the consequences if Saddam fails to comply and we fail to act. Saddam will be emboldened, believing the international community has lost its will."
Sandy Berger, President Clinton's National Security Advisor
Town Hall Meeting on Iraq at Ohio State University
February 18, 1998
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"No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators."
Madeleine Albright, President Clinton's Secretary of State
Town Hall Meeting on Iraq at Ohio State University
February 18, 1998
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"Dear Mr. President: ... We 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 Iraq sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."
Sincerely,
Letter to President Clinton
Signed by Senators Tom Daschle, John Kerry and others
October 9, 1998
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"As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, I am keenly aware that the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons is an issue of grave importance to all nations. Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (Democrat, California)
Statement on US Led Military Strike Against Iraq
December 16, 1998
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"His regime threatens the safety of his people, the stability of his region, and the security of all the rest of us.
What if he fails to comply, and we fail to act, or we take some ambiguous third route which gives him yet more opportunities to develop this program of weapons of mass destruction and continue to press for the release of the sanctions and continue to ignore the solemn commitments that he made?
Well, he will conclude that the international community has lost its will. He will then conclude that he can go right on and do more to rebuild an arsenal of devastating destruction.
And some day, some way, I guarantee you, he'll use the arsenal."
President Clinton
Address to Joint Chiefs of Staff and Pentagon staff
February 17, 1998
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"It should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and to promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace that regime."
Iraq Liberation Act of 1998
105th Congress, 2nd Session
September 29, 1998
http://www.freedomagenda.com/iraq/wmd_quotes.html
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20060615-084029-2600r.htm
Kerry flip-flops, again
TODAY'S EDITORIAL
June 16, 2006
John Kerry's sorriest moment, until now, sounded like this: "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it." But this week he has arguably outdone that equivocation.
"It is essential to acknowledge that the war itself was a mistake," the Massachusetts Democrat told a crowd of cheering leftists Tuesday at the "Take Back America" conference in Washington. "It was wrong, and I was wrong to vote for that Iraqi war resolution." He called on President Bush to withdraw all troops from Iraq by the end of the year. Sen. Hillary Clinton disagreed and was booed. Thus, Mr. Kerry, in his bid to remake himself as the antiwar partisan his liberal base has wanted all along, has flip-flopped his way to an even bigger self-contradiction than the one that did him in two years ago.
This is just too convenient. The supposed change of heart comes at the very moment President Bush's polling numbers ticked up on news of terrorist Abu Musab Zarqawi's death; at the very moment an Iowa poll places Mr. Kerry behind John Edwards among Democratic voters there for 2008; at the moment other Democratic hopefuls like Mrs. Clinton are being called formidable by Republican commentators; at the moment John Kerry is being written off as a has-been among presidential contenders.
Consistency has never been Mr. Kerry's strong suit, but this is exceptional. We don't know whether the actions are sheerly cynical or a cynical calculation coupled with colossal bumbling. It would be "bumbling" because prospects in Iraq are looking better this week than they have in some time, and American voters are noticing. The Iraqi government has filled key cabinet posts. A massive raid on insurgent positions is underway (452 raids and 104 insurgent deaths have reportedly happened since Zarqawi's death). Even if this is not "the beginning of the end" of al Qaeda in Iraq, the way that bullish officials in Baghdad were quoted as saying yesterday, the timing suggests that Mr. Kerry might not even care if it was. The position he espoused this week would doubtlessly unintentionally play right into the hands of the enemy's strategy, which is to survive long enough to grind away the American will to fight.
Mr. Kerry was a flip-flopper during the 2004 campaign. Now, apparently, he is an even bigger flip-flopper. He seems not to have learned anything from 2004. Even now, with more than two years to go until his next shot at the presidency, his finger in the wind still directs him, even on matters as vital as Iraq.
Kerry now clear: Let’s abandon Iraq
By Boston Herald editorial staff
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Call it Sen. John Kerry’s coming out party. At long last Kerry has adopted a coherent position on the war in Iraq - and thrown in his lot with the Howard Dean/bring the troops home now wing of his party.
“It is essential to acknowledge that the war itself was a mistake,” Kerry told some 2,000 liberals assembled for the “Take Back America” conference in Washington, D.C. “It was wrong and I was wrong to vote for that Iraq war resolution.”
Kerry is nothing if not brilliant at telling people what he thinks they want to hear. And if that means pandering to a group so to the left of the mainstream that they would boo and attempt to shout down Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), then so be it.
“I have to just say it: I do not think it is a smart strategy either for the president to continue with his open-ended commitment,” Clinton said, “nor do I think it is smart strategy to set a date certain. I do not agree that that is in the best interest of our troops or our country.”
It was then that many in the crowd chanted, “Bring the troops home, now.”
Yep, they’re now John Kerry’s people. And we truly hope they’ll all be very happy together.
Kerry has launched his back to the future-style campaign, drawing parallels between Vietnam, which he protested after returning from service there, and Iraq.
“And as in Vietnam, we have stayed and fought and died even though it is time for us to go,” Kerry said. “It was right to dissent from a war in 1971 that was wrong and could not be won. And now, in 2006, it is both a right and an obligation for Americans to stand up to a president who is wrong today.”
Kerry spoke those words even as President Bush was looking Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in the eye and promising “when America gives its word, America keeps its word.”
Kerry insists he wants a “hard and fast deadline” for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq. He is sponsoring a resolution proposing that nearly all of those troops be withdrawn by the end of this year.
Such a resolution would be a betrayal of all this nation has ever stood for, of all our troops have fought and died for. But most of all it would be a clear signal to insurgents, terrorists and the enemies of freedom everywhere that when the going gets tough there will always be an American politician advocating abandonment of this nation’s commitment. This time around it’s John Kerry.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-06-15-troops-ourview_x.htm
Setting deadline for troops' withdrawal will backfire
Updated 6/15/2006
When the public turned against the Vietnam War, many returning soldiers found themselves ignored, disdained and shunned. Iraq is different. Though most Americans now believe the war was a mistake, they still honor the troops.
That support became particularly poignant Thursday when the number of dead in Iraq reached yet another milestone: 2,500.
The grim announcement coincided with the start of a two-day debate in the House of Representatives on Iraq, which has been discussed far too little there in the three years since the United States invaded, the original plan went horribly awry, and the costs in lives and money soared.
Opposing view: 'Enough is enough'
Republican leaders capitalized on the rare good news of the past week in Iraq — the killing of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and the filling of key posts in the new Iraqi government — to put forth a resolution labeling the Iraq war part of the global fight against terrorism and saying an arbitrary date for the withdrawal or redeployment of U.S. forces is not in the national interest.
At one level, the debate is a cynical display of election-year politics that turns the troops fighting in Iraq into political pawns. Because Republicans wrote the resolution to express support for the troops as well as for President Bush's policy, a "no" vote can easily be twisted into a campaign attack ad claiming that anyone opposing the war is hostile to the troops fighting it, which is absurd.
But cheap political stunts aside, the thrust of the resolution, it seems to us, has merit. Iraq has become an important part of the war on terror, even if it wasn't when the war began. It's hard to argue otherwise when the organization led by Zarqawi and his successor calls itself "al-Qaeda in Iraq" and pledges allegiance to Osama bin Laden.
And while the war itself was a mistake based on faulty intelligence and delusional optimism, pulling out now, as advocated by Rep. John Murtha and other Democrats, risks making a bad situation worse.
U.S. troops should not stay in Iraq, as in Vietnam, purely for pride in a hopeless battle. They should remain, however, as long as there is a reasonable chance that they can bring some stability, reinforce the fledgling democratic government and prevent Iraq from becoming a haven for terrorists. Announcing a timetable for withdrawal, as Sen. John Kerry proposes (Kerry's resolution in the Senate was rejected 93-6 on Thursday), would just invite the insurgents to wait out the American presence.
Thursday's fireworks on the House floor did serve to illuminate how Congress has been egregiously missing in action on sustained discussion and oversight of the Iraq war. A two-day debate hardly begins to address the many critical issues: What would success look like? Is the $320 billion allocated to the war effort being well spent? Can more be done to protect the troops from lethal roadside bombings? What is being done to engage surrounding countries? What about the training of Iraqi forces?
Careful, extended examinations of those questions would do more to honor the 2,500 U.S. military dead and 18,490 wounded than would the sensible yet politically loaded resolution poised for passage today.
why aren`t people like these traitors(kerry,murtha,many more)laughed off the scene or chased off.
remember when he was giving a speech at midnight on the night of the Republican convention, and he was so drunk that the TV cameras all developed POWER PROBLEMS as soon as it became apparent? haha, THAT tape hasn't been seen since....hmmm, wonder if Fox has it.....
Kerry should go jump in the lake.
We are winning this war, and the jerk keeps opening his stooopid mouth. What is this moron going to say when we begin downsizing our involvment?
To think he could have been POTUS, scares the hell out of me.
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