Posted on 02/25/2015 5:24:14 PM PST by smoothsailing
Fenruary 25. 2015
Secretary of State John Kerry sought to discredit Benjamin Netanyahu’s views on what needs to be done to stop Iran Wednesday — but in so doing, he set a standard that discredits the top national security officials in the Obama administration, himself included.
Appearing before the House Foreign Committees hearing Wednesday, Kerry suggested that Netanyahu’s support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq invalidated his current position on what needs to be done to stop Iran’s nuclear program.
“The prime minister was profoundly forward-leaning and outspoken about the importance of invading Iraq under George W. Bush,” Kerry said. “We all know what happened with that decision.”
But Kerry, too, supported the 2003 Iraq war.
In 2002, Kerry voted to give President George W. Bush the authority to invade Iraq. He also defended that vote during his 2004 presidential campaign.
“I would have preferred if we had given diplomacy a greater opportunity, but I think it was the right decision to disarm Saddam Hussein, and when the president made the decision, I supported him, and I support the fact that we did disarm him,” he said during a 2003 Democratic primary debate.
Vice President Joe Biden, another key member of President Obama’s national security team, voted to give Bush the authority to use force against Iraq in 2002 when he was in the Senate as well.
Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice expressed support for military action to remove Saddam Hussein from power in the lead up to the Iraq war.
“I think the United States government has been clear since the first Bush administration about the threat that Iraq and Saddam Hussein poses,” she said in an interview with National Public Radio in November 2002. “The United States policy has been regime change for many, many years, going well back into the Clinton administration. So it’s a question of timing and tactics… We do not necessarily need a further Council resolution before we can enforce this and previous resolutions.”
President Obama famously opposed the 2003 Iraq war, so Kerry’s comment didn’t end up burning his boss. But it did burn the presumptive 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, who also voted when in the Senate to give Bush the authority to use force in Iraq.
No word on whether Kerry plans to resign since he apparently believes his foreign policy advice should not be trusted.
What a lying incompetent piece of utter crap this jerk is. Par for the course. The course is set for this administration and Iran’s possession of nuclear arms.
Just another thing he was for before he was against it.....
Hoard ammo and rope.
And wooden stakes...
Now you know why we did the book ‘Unfit for Command”: Swift Board Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry”. To show that he was not only a lying self-serving bastard, but to warn the world of what kind of leftist, backstabbing weasel he has always been and always will be.
Now you know why Netanyuhu is wearing body armor. He doesn’t fear the Arabs - he fears Kerry, Rice and Powers, as well as Dur Furher, Komraden Obama.
Hard to discredit something that had no credibility to begin with..
I still say Obama will Ban Netanyahu from entering the US ,but then you say Skype or something ,Obama will own the Internet by then
Buffoon thy name is Kerry!
I don't even consider Kerry to be smart enough to be a 'backstabbing weasel.' The guy is just a pure opportunist who only gets away with his s**t because he has a 'D' after his name.
He only does what he is told to do. He is defiantly not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but to his credit, he is a lot sharper than Joe Biden.
He just keeps saying it.
“You know, Senator Chuck Hagel, when he was senator, Senator Chuck Hagel, now secretary of defense, and when I was a senator, we opposed the president’s decision to go into Iraq, but we know full well how that evidence was used to persuade all of us that authority ought to be given.”
— Secretary of State John F. Kerry, in an interview with MSNBC, Sept. 5, 2013
Glenn Kessler at WaPo awards Kerry four Pinnochios:
Many politicians have a tendency to look back at their past statements with rose-colored glasses. But given that Kerry has now twice in recent months made the claim that he opposed the war in Iraq, this is clearly not a case of a momentary slip-up.
For Kerry, the uncomfortable fact remains that he voted to authorize the use of force against Iraq, he believed the intelligence that Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and he said there was little choice but to launch an invasion to disarm him. Kerry may have been highly critical of Bush’s diplomatic efforts in advance of the invasion, but that is not the same thing as opposing the war when it started.
It’s time for the secretary to stop making this claim. In trying to make a distinction between his vote to authorize the war and his later dismay at how it turned out, Kerry earns Four Pinocchios.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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From the administration's perspective I can see how Israel supporting the US is a bad thing.
Kerry in his younger days reminds me of my college days and the radical potheads that hung around the vending machines, talking about joining the SDS or who they humped the night before. Big head, no brain.
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