Kerry Balks at Sending Troops to Sudan

So Kerry would allow genocide to happen and blame it on Iraq and Afghanistan.

Translation: "I won't do a damned thing and it's all Bush's fault."

"Our moral leadership is not what it ought to be."

That's the motto of the Kerry/Edwards ticket.

Democrats, the new isolationists of the United States!

No he'd blame it on Bush.

Did you hear his crack today about how by the time he took the Presidency he didn't know how he'd solve things in Iraq, he might be looking at another Lebanon.

Anyway, he's already making excuses and placing blame for his failure as a President (should he get elected...God forbid.)

Of course not - Sudan didn't pass the GLOBAL TEST yet !!

I wish that Kerry would just go away but unfortunately he is Senator here from Massachusetts for at least another 2 years, and likely for far beyond that despite his horrific attendance record.

Hey, his lack of voting is actually preferable to his actual voting in my opinion.

Kerrry is scum.

Democrats, the new isolationists of the United States!

Unless there's a chance to bomb outgunned Christians.
(e.g., in the Balkans)

Hey Kerry, we have more than enough troops up to the task... they are stationed in Germany...

"So Kerry would allow genocide to happen and blame it on Iraq and Afghanistan."

Yep... following the Clinton example in Rwanda.

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October 07, 2004, 8:53 a.m.
Seared in Their Memories
Former POWs remember Kerry all too painfully well.

Amid the controversies over John Kerry's and George W. Bush's real and invented military records, the Mainstream Media spotlight has avoided one amazing fact: Former Vietnam POWs remember their captors using Kerry's words as instruments of intimidation and torture.

"The interrogator went through all of these statements from John Kerry," recalls James Warner, a Marine pilot who was shot down and held near Hanoi for five years and five months. "He starts pounding on the table. 'See, here, this naval officer. He admits that you are a criminal and that you deserve punishment.' ...I didn't know what was going to come next. In other words, for the rest of the time we were in that camp, I was very ill at ease."

Warner — who earned a Silver Star and two Purple Hearts — appears in Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal. This 45-minute documentary, produced by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Carlton Sherwood, is available via stolenhonor.com. It presents POWs who argue that John Kerry's fallacious spring 1971 claims that U.S. atrocities occurred "on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command" amplified their agony under America's North Vietnamese enemies. (See, also, Kate O'Beirne, "Honor Reclaimed.")

"That was a very difficult time," says former Air Force pilot Leo Thorsness, a Congressional Medal of Honor winner who spent five years and 19 days in North Vietnamese hands. "The things he [Kerry] said were just devastating, because he was using words like 'war criminal' and that kind of stuff. As a prisoner of war, we were being told we were war criminals, and that we'd be tried for war crimes, and unless we confess, and ask for forgiveness, and badmouth the war, and take their side in the war, we'd never go home."

Adds retired Air Force colonel Ken Cordier: "I was outraged and still am that he [Kerry] willingly said things which were untrue — the very same points that we took torture not to write and say." Cordier was incarcerated for six years and three months.

Stolen Honor describes the conditions in which POWs were detained. They were held in solitary confinement and communicated among each other by tapping coded messages through the dark, dank walls. Some prisoners were hung from the walls with their wrists behind their backs, causing shoulder injuries that persist even today. Others, who broke limbs in combat, were forced to sit or stand in positions that exacerbated their agony. The North Vietnamese constantly tormented them psychologically, to fracture their will and shatter their morale. John Kerry's voice aided those efforts.

Former Navy pilot Paul Galanti remembers his jailers at the so-called Hanoi Hilton playing English-language radio broadcasts of Kerry's April 22, 1971 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

"They made a big deal about this guy who was a naval officer, talking about all these atrocities and war crimes," Galanti told Human Events. "They'd been for years saying, 'You're not prisoners of war, you're war criminals. You're never going home. We're going to try you after the war, and you'll all be found guilty of war crimes.'"

Not long ago, Galanti linked that voice from yesterday with the man running for president today. While recently watching a documentary on the peace movement, Galanti heard Kerry claim that American GIs in Vietnam "razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan." Kerry distinctly pronounced "Genghis" with soft Gs (as in "gelatin") rather than hard ones (as in "grit").

"Right away, I said, 'Hey, wait a minute. That's the guy I heard in Hanoi,'" Galanti concluded.

Former Air Force captain Tom Collins also remembers his North Vietnamese captors forcing him to listen to Kerry's statements as well as Jane Fonda's antiwar remarks.

"I wasn't necessarily disappointed in Jane Fonda," Collins told Human Events. "I figured she's just some airhead Hollywood actress. So what? But then along comes this military officer...I expected more out of a Navy lieutenant. That's why I was so demoralized. It was far worse for him to do it."

Put yourself in these men's shoes: Imagine the prospect of hearing from the Oval Office the same voice your jailers used 33 years ago to break your mind in two.



	http://www.nationalreview.com/murdock/murdock200410070853.asp

"Our moral leadership is not what it ought to be."

There are no words that can describe the contempt I hold for John Kerry. Spitting would come close as nasty as that would be.

No he will blame everything on Bush... The people need to see thru this charade... I fear the end of our society if Kerry wins.

"I don't want to be a country that allows a second genocide
in a decade
to take place," Kerry said.

D-mn, Kerry is good.
Seeing how the Rwanda genocide was (mostly, IIRC) a 1994 event...
by the time a President Kerry would get sworn in, that decade will be elapsed.

Kerry is even slicker than Bubba.

If Kerry wins, the ruling Arab Muslims and janjaweed murderers are gonna'
have one heck of a party.
Then get back to the rapin' and pillagin'.

Wait an Edwards-blushing minute.

Kerrry would not send troops to the Sudan?

But, but, but he said this during the Debate just last week Thursday!

Where the heck is he going to send the two whole Divisions he's intent on creating?

Okay, to be fair and accurate, here's what Kerry said last Thursday with respect to the genocide in the Sudan:

"Now, with respect to Darfur, yes, it is a genocide. And months ago, many of us were pressing for action.

"I think the reason that we're not saying send American troops in at this point is severalfold.

"Number one, we can do this through the African Union, providing we give them the logistical support. Right now all the president is providing is humanitarian support. We need to do more than that. They've got to have the logistical capacity to go in and stop the killing. And that's going to require more than is on the table today... "...in my plan, I add two active duty divisions to the United States Army, not for Iraq, but for our general demands across the globe...

"But I'll tell you this, as president, if it took American forces to some degree to coalesce the African Union, I'd be prepared to do it because we could never allow another Rwanda.

"It's the moral responsibility for us and the world."

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This buffoon is all over the place.

other other non-Muslims (e.g., the Sudan)

if it took American forces to some degree to coalesce the African Union

What the devil does this mean?

Didn't he say he would be willing to send US troops during the first debate ?

Kerry balks at sending troops anywhere. If only we were French and willing to appease everyone (heavy sarcasm).