Kerry: Iraq a Great Failure of Judgment

AP ^ | 04/07/04 | Associated Press

[Pikamax]

Kerry: Iraq a Great Failure of Judgment

Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on Wednesday called the situation in Iraq "one of the greatest failures of diplomacy and failures of judgment that I have seen in all the time that I've been in public life."

"Where are the people with the flowers, throwing them in the streets, welcoming the American liberators the way Dick Cheney said they would be?" Kerry said in an interview with American Urban Radio Networks.

"Since I fought in Vietnam, I have not seen an arrogance in our foreign policy like this."

[goodnesswins]

"Since I fought in Vietnam, I have not seen an arrogance in our foreign policy like this."

I'll admit I did not read past this.....BUT, he was only there for FOUR FRICKEN MONTHS!!! And he dances on the corpses of those who have fought for FREEDOM, the holier than thou...ignoramus.

[SuziQ]

John Al-Query is at it again, huh?
Keep it up, twit! Folks in America are not buying the 'Vietnam' crap, no matter how hard you, the Dems, and your media lapdogs try to peddle it!

[Owen]

The Administration is frankly too busy dealing with the issues to respond. Where are the GOP Congress people to label these people as they should be?

[Viking2002]

KERRY IS LIVING, WALKING PROOF THAT BEING AN AMERICAN GOES MUCH DEEPER THAN YOUR BIRTHRIGHT. THERE SHOULD BE A PLACE SET ASIDE ON PLANET EARTH FOR FREAKS LIKE THIS TO BE EXILED.

[malia]

What makes a war hero?

Why is Kerry a Vietnam hero?

Yes, I know all about his going to Vietnam, getting wounded three times, and getting medals and his leaving Vietnam all in 4 months time.

[Spruce]

John Kerry sucks.

[claudiustg]

---Scumbag!

That doesn't even come close to describing him.---

Traitor!

That's a good fit.

[Mr. Buzzcut]

Didn't Botox Boy vote to give GWB the authority to wage this war? Or did I dream that?

[jungleboy]

Red- you say "The left in this nation and worldwide has formulated a temporary alliance with evil."

And I say...TEMPORARY?! You call 30 years TEMPORARY?!

[claudiustg]

---BUT, he was only there for FOUR FRICKEN MONTHS!!!---

He wrote himself up for a chest full of medals and left the men under his command to fight the war. Then he betrayed them again when he got home. Kennedy and Kerry, what a sorry fate for the cradle of American liberty, Massachusetts.

[wolicy_ponk]

This just in...

[Toespi]

"[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 (D-MI), Tom Daschle (D-SD), John Kerry( D - MA), and others Oct. 9,1998

"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

"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

[Mr. Buzzcut]

Then I didn't imagine it ... thanks! Sometimes I feel like I'm in the Bizzaro World!

[sport]

About 20 million years after hell freezes over.

[Defender2]

kerry(not capitolised on purpose) and the demoCommiecRAT party orchestrated mouthpieces of the enemy!!!!

[Paradox]

"Where are the people with the flowers, throwing them in the streets, welcoming the American liberators the way Dick Cheney said they would be?" Kerry

Uh, Mr. Kerry, where were you when Baghdad fell? Did you not see the people celebrating in the streets? Have you not seen the reports from the troops about how much the majority of Iraqi's like them there? Mr. Kerry, as great as our military is, didn't it occur to you that one of the primary reasons the US was able to invade so successfully was because alot of the people there were WAITING for the Americans, so they could get rid of Saddam? I mean, WHERE are you COMING from? I have heard this mantra now, with the "flowers" comment, from a couple other democrats, I think it was in their talking points memo or something. They are hoping that the latest fighting, due to a small minority in Iraq, will erase the memory of the glorious fall of Baghdad.

Ya know, they just might be right, no one ever got poor betting against the attention span of the average American.

[sangoo]

"Since I fought in Vietnam, I have not seen an arrogance in our foreign policy like this."

I guess he doesn't remember Jimmy Carter and his Iran mess.

[luvbach1]

throwing flowers in the streets, welcoming the American liberators...

Why blame Cheney for underestimating the stupidity of the Iraqis? Who would have thought sane people would not welcome those who liberated them from the unspeakably cruel heel of the dictator Saddam? [of course many do, but the Demonrats seize upon those who do not] Particulary when that liberator was prepared to rebuild their infrastructure to better than it was before their liberation, give $billions in aid, help them in a myriad of other ways, and return the country to them with a chance for democracy for the first time. How arrogant is that John Kerry!? How fair is it to blame the US and Bush for it all the ensuing problems? And how fair is it to the sacrifice and struggle of our fine troops executing our policies?

[Jorge]

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on Wednesday called the situation in Iraq "one of the greatest failures of diplomacy and failures of judgment that I have seen in all the time that I've been in public life."

This is funny coming from someone who made a huge case FOR the Iraq war back in 2002.
What a two faced double-talking phony Kerry is.

"Where are the people with the flowers, throwing them in the streets, welcoming the American liberators the way Dick Cheney said they would be?" Kerry said in an interview with American Urban Radio Networks.

I have hours of them cheering the Americans as we liberated Iraq on video tape.

Maybe Kerry thinks the Iraqis would prefer to go back to the days of the rape rooms, torture chambers and mass graves filled with 300,000 Iraqi citizens?

What exactly is Kerry's position? This man is a such a hypocrite.

[finnman69]

Sicne Kerry loves pimping his Vietnam service for political gain it seems appropriate that he continues his TED (Kennedy) Offensive against the US and our troops.