Posted on 08/13/2004 5:27:14 AM PDT by OESY
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On Monday ... Mr. Kerry ... acknowledged he would still have voted for the October 2002 Iraq war resolution even if he had known we wouldn't find WMD -- but only as a way to give the President more clout to negotiate. [H]e would have wanted the authority to go to war but without any intention of actually fighting it. How this admission will make the Kim Jong Ils and Ayatollahs of the world more pliable is hard to fathom.
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Mr. Kerry is now talking openly about bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq: ... "we're going to get our troops home where they belong."
Mr. Kerry says he would do this by replacing U.S. troops with foreign ones. But what if that doesn't happen, regardless of how well he speaks French? The message ... heard in Baghdad is that Mr. Kerry is planning a date-certain U.S. retreat. Such a pledge only emboldens the Baathist insurgents to fight on, rather than accept Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's offer of amnesty. And it encourages the terrorists to believe that their strategy of car-bombing has worked to weaken U.S. resolve after all.
Even more destructive is the effect Mr. Kerry's promise could have on ordinary Iraqis. It signals to those who are risking their lives by fighting the insurgents that the U.S. might not stay until stability is restored. It also subverts his promise to secure more international help. What country would want to sign on to Iraq if the U.S. is headed for the exits?
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Mr. Cheney noted that "America has been in too many wars for any of our wishes, but not a one of them was won by being sensitive. ... The men who beheaded Daniel Pearl and Paul Johnson will not be impressed by our sensitivity."
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Who knows what Kerry will say tommorrow?
He changes his mind daily, and the fact is he has no idea himself what he will say or do tommorrow.
Anyone who would vote for this guy needs their head examined.
Kerry is unfit to command.
Plain and simple.
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Kerry, "If you elect me, I will do as the French would, retreat and surrender!"
Good stuff!
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