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Kerry: Terrorist Shiite Al-Sadr 'A Legitimate Voice'
NewsMax.com ^
| April 7, 2004
| Carl Limbacher
Posted on 04/07/2004 7:41:39 AM PDT by Carl/NewsMax
In an interview broadcast Wednesday morning, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry defended terrorist Shiite imam Moqtada al-Sadr as a "legitimate voice" in Iraq, despite that fact that he's led an uprising that has killed nearly 20 American GIs in the last two days.
Speaking of al-Sadr's newspaper, which was shut down by coalition forces last week after it urged violence against U.S. troops, Kerry complained to National Public Radio, "They shut a newspaper that belongs to a legitimate voice in Iraq."
In the next breath, however, the White House hopeful caught himself and quickly changed direction, adding, "Well, let me . . . change the term legitimate. It belongs to a voice because he has clearly taken on a far more radical tone in recent days and aligned himself with both Hamas and Hezbollah, which is a sort of terrorist alignment."
But Kerry again seemed to voice sympathy for the Shiite terrorist when asked whether he supported al Sadr's arrest. "Not if its an isolated act without the other kinds of steps necessary to change the dynamics on the ground in Iraq," Kerry told NPR, in quotes first reported by the New York Sun.
"If all we do is make war against the Iraqi people and continue an American occupation, fundamentally, without a clarity as to who and how sovereignty is being turned over, we have a very serious problem for the long run here," Kerry added. "And I think this administration is just walking dead center down into that trap."
On March 28, the U.S.-led coalition authorities closed al-Sadr's newspaper, al-Hawza, for 60 days, the Sun reported. L. Paul Bremer, the chief U.S. administrator in Iraq, charged that said the newspaper had published false stories blaming the coalition forces for local acts of terrorism.
TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: 2004; alsadr; appallingdems; flipflop; irankerry; kerry; ketchup; lurch; religionofpeace; sadr; sympathy; tedoffensive; terrorists
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posted on
04/07/2004 7:57:38 AM PDT
by
kayak
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To: StriperSniper
Tell me there is audio of this.
To: Carl/NewsMax
"Well, let me . . . change the term legitimate..."NO!!!
That's all you DemonicRats know how to do!!!
You CANNOT continually "change the term(s)" and cover your differential(donkey) when you make Freudian slips and blurt out your glaring anti-American verbage/garbage that helps embolden our murderous enemies!!!
63
posted on
04/07/2004 7:58:03 AM PDT
by
SierraWasp
(John Fallujah Kerry! Now we REALLY know what HE meant, by "Bring... It... On!!!" He sure DID!!!)
To: Carl/NewsMax
Speaking of al-Sadr's newspaper, which was shut down by coalition forces last week after it urged violence against U.S. troops, Kerry complained to National Public Radio, "They shut a newspaper that belongs to a legitimate voice in Iraq." al-Sadr's newspaper is the same sort of voice that Kerry was in the U.S. 30 years ago.
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posted on
04/07/2004 7:58:07 AM PDT
by
Amelia
To: Samwise
John Kerry: Chater member of Hate America First.
To: Carl/NewsMax
Kerry would sell this nation down the river even worse than Clinton did.
I can't see the Dems allowing this nutcase to get the nomination. Every time Kerry talks his sticks his foot in his mouth. Truly, foot-in-mouth disease.
66
posted on
04/07/2004 7:58:29 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
(Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)
To: Kaslin
This morning, on another thread, I read a repost from someone in Iraq that called Sadr "a little boy" that leads a bunch of militants that carry burlap sacks around so that when Sadr gains control of the country they can put all the money in the banks in the sacks. He basically said the guy is a dreamer and has no standing as a cleric.
The Iraqi's see throught this guy but Kerry thinks Sadr is a legitmate voice
Kerry must be defeated at all costs
67
posted on
04/07/2004 7:58:36 AM PDT
by
HardStarboard
( Wesley...gone. Hillary......not gone enough!)
To: Carl/NewsMax
He's just trying to pick up another foriegn endoresement. He's a real fighter, you know.
68
posted on
04/07/2004 7:58:37 AM PDT
by
paul51
To: Kaslin
Kerry is a treasonous son of a b*tch.
To: Carl/NewsMax
John Kerry support's the TED(Kennedy) Offensive
70
posted on
04/07/2004 7:59:33 AM PDT
by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
To: spodefly
"a legitamate voice..."
yup, Johnny, of Iran, hoping to abort the birth of a secular state next door.
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posted on
04/07/2004 7:59:39 AM PDT
by
KC Burke
(Men of intemperate minds can never be free....)
To: Samwise
He betrays the honor and memory of the American's that have died over there...and their grieving families.
72
posted on
04/07/2004 7:59:47 AM PDT
by
Jackie-O
To: TomGuy
"Kerry would sell this nation down the river even worse than Clinton did.
I can't see the Dems allowing this nutcase to get the nomination. Every time Kerry talks his sticks his foot in his mouth. Truly, foot-in-mouth disease."
JFKerry sounds like the perfect candidate to run Iraq.
Wonder when he will go over and meet and greet the Shiite Al-Sadr?
To: ladtx
I agree with you. He had to misspoken. *snicker*
74
posted on
04/07/2004 8:00:13 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: Trust but Verify
bears repeating
75
posted on
04/07/2004 8:00:20 AM PDT
by
boxerblues
("We wanted to kill the people inside," said Lieutenant Colonel Brennan Byrne on bombing of mosque)
To: Carl/NewsMax
Kerry just lost the election BIG TIME!
76
posted on
04/07/2004 8:00:31 AM PDT
by
areafiftyone
(Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
To: OXENinFLA; Carl/NewsMax; Matt Drudge
Tell me there is audio of this.Got to ask Carl.
I hope Brit has this tonight.
77
posted on
04/07/2004 8:00:32 AM PDT
by
StriperSniper
(Ernest Strada Fanclub)
To: Carl/NewsMax
This is so unbelievable that if I dont hear it with my own ears I wont believe it.
To: Carl/NewsMax
Kerry is potentially more dangerous to America than the terrorists. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
79
posted on
04/07/2004 8:01:09 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: Carl/NewsMax
...and the local VC tax collector was a "legitimate" servant of the people. For John Kerry, I guess legitimacy increases in direct proportion to one's hatred for "American imperialist, lackey-dogs".
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