"'Today, they have grown disillusioned,' he said of U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq."
Posted on 02/12/2007 10:43:55 AM PST by presidio9
Democrat Senator John Kerry has said that US President George W. Bush's latest plan to send 21,500 additional troops to Iraq "ignores the best advice from the US generals".
He said that the decision "did not keep faith with the courage and commitment of US soldiers" (in Iraq).
Bush had last month unveiled his new Iraq strategy, including sending over 20,000 more troops to Iraq. The plan, however, has met strong resistance from Democrats as well as some Republicans.
Currently there are about 132,000 US troops in Iraq, even as more than 3000 American soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis have been killed in the country since the US' invasion in March 2003.
"Another 21,000 troops sent into Iraq, with no visible end or strategy, ignores the best advice from our own generals and isn't the best way to keep faith with the courage and commitment of our soldiers," The Nation quoted Kerry as saying in a radio address Saturday.
Kerry, a Democratic from Massachusetts and the Democratic Party's presidential nominee in 2004, said: "Today, they have grown disillusioned," he said of U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq. The war fought by American soldiers "to protect the world from Iraq's imagined weapons of mass destruction ended a long time ago, and Iraq "is immersed in a bloody civil war. The 'surge' for Iraq is nothing more than the escalation of a misguided war."
He added: "If there was a yes or no vote this week on whether the US should keep up an indefinite presence in Iraq, it would be voted down."
Kerry further said that the US should change its mission in Iraq to training Iraqi security forces and focusing its efforts on removing the threat posed by foreign fighters in Iraq, not patrolling Iraqi neighborhoods under the threat of roadside bombs, and the United States should "get tough with Iraqi politicians-pressure them to meet tough benchmarks".
He suggested that the Iraqis would work harder to achieve a political solution to their deadly conflict if they realized that they couldn't "rely indefinitely on American troops as a security blanket." "Congress must push this administration to find not just a new way forward in Iraq, but the right way forward," he said.
Senate Republicans too blocked a full-floor debate this week on a non-binding resolution opposing Bush's plan to increase American troop levels in Iraq.
Hey, Lurch...don't you need to go ski or something?
Apparently, Mr. Kerry does not understand that the vast majority of US service folk in Iraq loathe him.
Kerry never speaks in defense of America. He insults his country regularly, and for decades.
To Hell with him.
Fool.
"Bush's plan of more troops for Iraq "ignores" US Generals' advice: John Kerry"
...America's plan of less John Kerry "ignores" wishes of US soldiers.
Please just take your wife's money and retire.
"'Today, they have grown disillusioned,' he said of U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq."
Dear J F'n K:
Which Generals might those be?
Clown.
Or windsurfing in the Caribbean.
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Did you know that I was in Vietnam?
Senator Kerry: 'More Troops Needed In Iraq'
http://www.seacoastonline.com/2003news/07092003/news/38462.htm
MY plan is to ignore John Kerry!
Wonder who old Lurch will cozy up to...Ears or the Breck Girl. He's got to be angling for a Sec of Def position.
Which Generals might those be?
I think he'd prefer Ambassador to Surrendermonkeyland.
I made this pic for someone else. :^)
Kerry knows how to be a great commander. yeah sure.....
He is a commie puppett.
He's going to spend the rest of his life brooding over his loss to Bush.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Yea, but the voters keep electing him. Can you tell me who is the dummy.
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