Yes, but he and John Kerry pose the most intimate threat.
Posted on 07/08/2004 9:37:23 PM PDT by adam_az
Edwards urged military action on Iraq instead of North Korea with John King, who was subbing for Wolf Blitzer.......
KING: Senator Edwards, when discussing the North Korean problem, the president wants to confront the regime, deal with its own missiles program plus its exports. There is not a reasonable military option when it comes to North Korea is there?
EDWARDS: Well, I don't think we're focused on military options right now, John.
I think it was important, in answer to your last question, it was important for the president to go to the region. I think he did help alleviate some of the concerns that people in that area had about this "axis of evil" comment.
But I do think that the more serious question going forward is, what are we going to do? I mean, we have three different countries that, while they all present serious problems for the United States -- they're dictatorships, they're involved in the development and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction -- you know, the most imminent, clear and present threat to our country is not the same from those three countries. I think Iraq is the most serious and imminent threat to our country.
And I think they -- as a result, we have to, as we go forward and as we develop policies about how we're going to deal with each of these countries and what action, if any, we're going to take with respect to them, I think each of them have to be dealt with on their own merits.
And they do, in my judgment, present different threats. And I think Iraq and Saddam Hussein present the most serious and most imminent threat.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Isn't the internet wonderful?
Finally we hear the words "imminent threat" uttered and they are spoken by Johnny Reid Edwards!
I'm beginning to think Kerry is a plant... and now I'm starting to believe in some global cabal.
It was on Fox News tonight.
Yes, but he and John Kerry pose the most intimate threat.
Crosslink to Hardball interview thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1167848/posts
"It was on Fox News tonight."
That's why I looked up the transcript - just saw it on Special Report.
This is great stuff, eh? :-)
GOP attack ad office, paging karl rove.
It would be great if we could get the transcript from today's "rally" in Florida where he said the exact opposite.
Of course, he WILL say it all again, over and over!
Tonight, Laura Ingraham played a clip of Edwards on Hardball (from O2 or 03) Mathews asked him if he would go into Iraq without France, Russia or Germany. John Davidson...I mean John Edwards replied, "Yes".
John Edwards
Think we'll hear that term applied to Edwards name that many times on CNN?
Didn't think so...
MATTHEWS: Let me ask but the war, because I know these are all students and a lot of guys the age of these students are fighting over there and cleaning up over there, and they’re doing the occupation.
Were we right to go to this war alone, basically without the Europeans behind us? Was that something we had to do?
EDWARDS: I think that we were right to go. I think we were right to go to the United Nations. I think we couldn’t let those who could veto in the Security Council hold us hostage.
And I think Saddam Hussein, being gone is good. Good for the American people, good for the security of that region of the world, and good for the Iraqi people.
MATTHEWS: If you think the decision, which was made by the president, when basically he saw the French weren’t with us and the Germans and the Russians weren’t with us, was he right to say, “We’re going anyway”?
EDWARDS: I stand behind my support of that, yes.
MATTHEWS: You believe in that?
EDWARDS: Yes.
Oh, look! Dog found the transcript from Hardball.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:KpbdWqsDFMIJ:msnbc.msn.com/id/3131295/+Hardball+transcripts+with+John+Edwards&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
and?
Hurt me Howlin, Hurt me!!!
YEEEEEEEEEEAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH (best Dean I can do *cough*)
;)
I see a campaign commercial.
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