Posted on 04/12/2004 11:10:02 AM PDT by PsyOp
Remarks of Senator John Kerry on Iraq
He was for it, before he was against it...
GAD! So sorry I missed this first time around. Have been doing the same kind of research (read Marshall, anyone?), and this makes my point far better than I'd have done. Absolutely superb. Thank you.
Which Marshall? O'm not familiar with the name unless you're referring to the one that authored the Marshall Plan. BTW, glad you liked the article. It was reprinted on the Wintersoldier.com website.
Chief Justice John Marshall, under Washington, Adams, Jefferson (maybe more)--lots of attention given to treason in those early days.
BTTT
"It was an important step towards ending the administration's aimless, open-ended course in Iraq and having Iraqis stand up for Iraq."
— John Kerry, shortly after his senatorial colleagues overwhelmingly voted down the Kerry-Feingold proposal to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq by July 2007.
"Why is it so hard to believe John Kerry?... Overcoming skepticism about Kerry's change of heart on Iraq will be especially challenging. For one thing, it tracks nicely with the general public's change of heart and coincides conveniently with the liberals' search for an antiwar champion. In addition, the antiwar fervor that Kerry displayed this week also coincides with an early poll from Iowa that puts John Edwards in first place with Democrats in that presidential caucus state. The two former running mates now seem to be vying for the antiwar political left." —Joan Vennochi
"Like the Sunni insurgency, the national Democrat Party and its congressional contingent has demonstrated time and again that they will willingly sacrifice the welfare and security of the American people to get their way... In the end, all that matters to them is regaining the power the American people took from them in 1994..." —Michael Reagan, "Patriot Post".
"The detainees at Guantanamo are not innocent unfortunates swept up in an indiscriminate dragnet. These people were captured on the field of battle where they intended to kill Americans and Britons." — Cal Thomas.
From the Leftmedia Psychosis Files:
"This trip was not only surrounded in secrecy, there was a bit of deception as well." — ABC's Martha Raddatz incredulous that the President's visit to Iraq wasn't carefully detailed to the press in advance.
"I wonder to what degree anybody in the White House thought maybe it might undermine our point if we have to take such excessive security precautions in order to go claim victory or whatever it was the President was trying to accomplish?" — PBS's "Washington Week" host Gwen Ifill.
Trying to hide the white flag: "[A]re you comfortable with characterizing the Democrats as people who want to cut and run?" — CBS's Bob Schieffer to Tony Snow.
From the "Dan Rather" School of Journalism: "Inside the insurgency: Documents purportedly from insurgents speak of their failures and coalition successes. Are the documents genuine?" — ABC's Charlie Gibson **Try asking Mary Mapes.
That 70s Show:
"Do you see, as some of your critics do, a parallel between what's going on in Iraq now and Vietnam?" — ABC's Ann Compton to President Bush.
"Do you ever have a moment where you feel this just won't end well, that no matter how many Zarqawis are killed, the insurgents are just never going to give up?" — CBS's Jim Axelrod to President Bush.
From the "Cut and Run" Files:
"I don't know how many times we have heard the president say, 'We will stand down as the Iraqis stand up.' I don't want to hear that anymore. It seems to me that that mantra no longer stands. That is, we have to start bringing our troops home." — Harry Reid, who voted against bringing our troops home.
"We need to redeploy our troops... They've become the targets, they're caught in the civil war, and I feel very strongly about it." — John Murtha.
"[T]he people that are cutting and running are the administration when it comes to truth about Iraq and about their policies in Iraq, about the misguided information, the lack of intelligence, and the misinformation that they gave the American people as a basis for the invasion of Iraq, and the continued misinterpretation." — Ted Kennedy.
"I don't know why we are so afraid to stand up and say, look, we want to see an end to this thing... Three years and three months into a mission that was supposed to take 30 or 40 days... That isn't cutting and running." — Dianne Feinstein **Who said it would take 30 or 40 days?
"If I'd known the president was going to be this incompetent in his administration, I would not have given him the authority [to go into Iraq]. Had I been president, I would have asked for the authority." — Joe Biden, who also voted against bringing our troops home.
Off the charts: "The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism. Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country... I don't see why people care about patriotism." — Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks.
Speaking of patriotism: "They're moral human beings who don't want to go to Iraq and kill innocent people to line the pockets of George Bush and the war machine." — Cindy Sheehan.
Jay Leno: President Bush went to Iraq to boost the new government. That shows how rough the situation is in Iraq when a guy with a 30% approval rating stops by to give you a boost. ... President Bush sneaked into Iraq without any formal paperwork, which I guess would make him an undocumented leader. ... President Bush returned safely from his surprise trip to Iraq. A lot of people criticize him, saying he was only in Iraq for five hours. Hey, it's still five hours longer than the French were there. ... Democrats are refusing to give President Bush any credit for killing al-Zarqawi. Like today Al Gore blamed it on global warming. And John Kerry said of the two 500 pound bombs that hit the safe house, he voted for the first bomb—not the second one. ... Gore said they could have gotten the same job done with one hybrid mini bomb that runs on vegetable oil. Less pollution. ... What's the difference between al-Zarqawi and Patrick Kennedy? Patrick Kennedy will get bombed again. ...
19 June 2006 | PatriotPost.US | Patriot No. 06-25
"One presidential visit to Baghdad is worth a thousand pathetic declarations of defeat from Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean or Ted Kennedy—none of whom has shown the least respect for the democratically elected and courageous leaders of reborn Iraq. Bush's visit forced the media to briefly stop whining about the phony issues of Haditha and Gitmo and to acknowledge that Iraq has a free, functioning government. But for ambitious journalists, inventing or exaggerating American misdeeds will always be more rewarding than telling the truth: Zarqawi's death was written off, while Haditha was written up. Still, glints of truth force their way through. And the truth is: We've got a president with guts; our efforts in Iraq are paying off, and their new government is far more important to Iraqis than Gitmo or Haditha." — Ralph Peters.
"I don't know how many times we have heard the president say, 'We will stand down as the Iraqis stand up.' I don't want to hear that anymore. It seems to me that that mantra no longer stands. That is, we have to start bringing our troops home." — Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, June 2006.
"[T]he Swift Boat vets lied and lied and lied about everything. How many lies do you get to tell before someone calls you a liar? How many times can you be exposed in America today?" — John Kerry, who has been exposed as a liar regarding his Purple Hearts, a liar regarding his "Christmas in Cambodia," a liar regarding the release of his complete military records, ad infinitum...
"Now, as a result of the massacre-hungry media blitz, Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki has denounced U.S. indifference to civilian casualties in the most virulent terms, accusing troops of near-daily attacks against innocent Iraqis. While John Kerry and his war-crimes contingent, together with their media lemmings, will see this as a confirmation of U.S. atrocities and the hopelessness of the situation in Iraq, the reality of Maliki's remarks is far different. Maliki's denouncement represent a calculated move—likely with U.S. assent—to hold together the country's fragile new governing coalition, which is dependent on keeping the Sunnis at the table in the face of media-fed popular discontent. It's one more example of domestic constraints driving international relations in the Muslim world.
"These savage media attacks received their biggest shot in the arm with Congressman John Murtha's pronouncements describing the incident as though he were an eyewitness: "There's no question in my mind about what happened here... They killed four people in a taxi and then, in addition to that, they went into the rooms and killed them. [I]t's something that we cannot excuse." Even if—God forbid—Murtha is correct, his use of our troops as a lever to slam the Commander in Chief, publicly condemning the American military in wartime, is absolutely unforgivable. His accusations place our soldiers in even greater jeopardy as tempers run high on the "Arab street." In short, Murtha & Co. have once again given aid and comfort to the enemy at this critical time. We pray the good citizens of Pennsylvania remember this treason come November.
~ Editor, Patriot Post.
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