Posted on 09/12/2004 4:07:59 PM PDT by Presto
Today on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, one of Senator Kerry’s top advisors, former Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, declared that the situation in Iraq is worse than America’s defeat in Vietnam.
Here is the excerpt from that interview:
WALLACE: ...I want to give you, as one of his top advisers, a chance to clear that up. We're going to first play a series of statements by the senator and also one by one of his opponents in the Democratic primaries. Take a look.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIPS)
U.S. SENATOR JOHN KERRY, D-MA: I think it was the right decision to disarm Saddam Hussein. And when the president made the decision, I supported him and I support the fact that we did disarm him.
HOWARD DEAN, FORMER GOVERNOR OF VERMONT: I think this was the wrong war at the wrong time. KERRY: It's the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time.
(END VIDEO CLIPS)
WALLACE: Ambassador Holbrooke, simple question: Does John Kerry now support the decision to take Saddam Hussein out of power or not?
HOLBROOKE: As I just said, Chris, twice in 1998 and 2002, John...
WALLACE: That's not the question I'm asking you, sir. I'm asking you, does he support the decision now to disarm and oust Saddam Hussein?
HOLBROOKE: Let me try to answer, Chris, and then I want to make a general comment about what I consider a very one-sided coverage of this issue. Because it's President Bush who's changed his positions much more than anyone else.
WALLACE: If I may, sir, I'd like to get an answer to my question. Does he support disarming Saddam Hussein or not?
HOLBROOKE: Senator Kerry has supported getting rid of Saddam Hussein from the beginning. But giving the authority to the president is quite different from the president taking that authority and creating a mess worse than Vietnam, which is the mess we are now in. And the effort to find Senator Kerry's nanonuanced differences in his position, as opposed to the massive changes in the Bush administration's position, is quite...
WALLACE: Wait a minute, Mr. Ambassador. You're telling me that you think that Iraq is worse than Vietnam?
HOLBROOKE: Yes. It is strategically worse than Vietnam.
You can read the whole interview at: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,132156,00.html
"Holbrooke isn't merely a "supporter." He speaks for the Kerry Kampaign."
Kerry won't speak for himself! He hasn't answered any questions from the press in over a month.
excerpt from the sensitive war song
"The Good Ship Lollipop
On the good ship lollipop.
Its a sweet trip to a candy shop
Where bon-bons play
On the sunny beach of Peppermint Bay.
The Democrats wanted us to lose in VietNam and they want us to lose in Iraq....same group...different place. They DETEST Victory for America!!! why?
His obsession with Vietnam consumes his life.
America is beginning to understand his sickness.
Kerry just can't go without using that "V" word....
These Democrats are total defeatists. Everything that comes out of their mouths these days are always negative towards the United States. The American people can't keep getting duped by these same anti-American themes being put out by the Dems. The Dems are in desperation mode.
I was thinking today that to hear the Kerry campaign tell it - and liberals in general - nothing should ever happen in world affairs that we don't like or that is a threat to us. If it does, it must be the Republicans fault, and to make it stop, just get rid of the Republicans. Further, if we do have a war, then the only possible option, as you said, is that the other side just surrenders. If they don't, well, then we just don't deal with it anymore.
Just think of it as 'spoiled child syndrome' diplomacy.
Good post. Thanks for the link.
Richard Holbrooke. The war criminal who arranged the bombing of Belgrade and the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo.
My prediction is that the Kerry campaign is going to issue a statement that Mr. Holbrooke misspoke and that senator Kerry does not think that Iraq is worse than Vietnam. Then Mr. Holbrooke will follow up by making a back pedaling “clarification”. And then the Kerry campaign will make sure that Mr. Holbrooke does no more interviews in the name of the Kerry campaign.
But I sure hope I’m wrong. I’d love for the Kerry campaign to be stupid enough to let Holbrooke’s comment stand just as it is.
If the political buzz were to become that Kerry believes that Iraq is worse than Vietnam, voters would rightly conclude that Kerry thinks that the situation in Iraq is hopeless. At that point, the overwhelming number of voters would realize that they cannot trust Kerry to manage the situation in Iraq. They would realize that in fact Kerry wants to cut and run – just like in Vietnam.
Their tune hasn't changed, lest we forget:
Mark Steyn: Quagmire Watch!
SteynOnline ^ | April 6, 2004 | Mark Steyn
Posted on 04/06/2004 9:19:52 AM PDT by quidnunc
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1112408/posts
"Whatever Happened to Kabul's Bleak Midwinter?
Daily Telegraph UK Filed: 12/01/2002 By Mark Steyn
http://www.viridiandesign.org/notes/251-300/00294_brutal_afghan_winter.html
Bombarded by brutal rhetoric
Mark Steyn National Post
January 7, 2002
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/archives2/archives2mail/mail187.html
"Top Aid to Kerry declares Iraq worse than Vietnam!"
1971 peacenik lollypop story repeat. TAKE A FRIGGIN HIKE KERRY.
In Vietnam we lost over 50,000 soldiers and (thanks to turncoats like Kerry) we lost
In Iraq we've lost about 1,000 and won.
As usual liberals and the truth are complete strangers.
on a friend's couch.
Without daddy and the wives,what makes you think he would have any friends?
What a complete MORON Holbrooke is....we have lost about 1,000 troops to date in this 16 month war....at this rate, Itaq will be JUST like Viet Nam in 58 years!!!!!!!!
He is a dangerous individual when in a position of power. No Kerry administration, no power for Dicky. He will have to make his money on the screaming head shows.
5.56mm
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