Posted on 01/06/2005 8:49:58 AM PST by Carl/NewsMax
Visiting with U.S. troops in Baghdad on Thursday, failed presidential candidate John Kerry trashed Commander-in-chief George Bush for making "horrendous judgments" and "unbelievable blunders" that have undermined the war effort.
In a series of demoralizing comments first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, the defeated Democrat griped, "What is sad about what's happening here now is that so much of it is a process of catching up from the enormous miscalculations and wrong judgments made in the beginning."
Kerry said that because of the Bush administration's mistakes, "the job has been made enormously harder."
Among the errors cited by the disgruntled Democrat: the decision by former U.S. occupation leader Paul Bremer's to disband the Iraqi army and purge the government of former members of Hussein's Baath Party.
Both moves were have fueled the Sunni insurgency, he claimed, lamenting, "Mistakes have been made."
Then, perhaps sensing he'd gone too far, the 2008 White House hopeful cut short the Bush-bashing, saying, "Now, it's a different time and different set of judgments that have to be made. I'm here to make judgments about what moves are available to us."
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I hope this is not true but somehow it seems plausible. Do the Democrats have no shame, sense of pride or love for their country. I think not judging by the shenanigans going on in the Senate and house today over the election.
That's hillarious! Too bad so few will catch your Zarqawi pun...
I'm afraid that since he is still a U.S. Senator, booing him would be considered insubordination. Or something similar.
Every time I see the word "Osama" I'm thinking "Obama". How is that going to help the new rising star?
Oh Tonk, your pics bring it all back...do you think that Lurch is trying to do with Iraq like he did with Viet Nam?
oh we'll be still be there in 2008 probably we'll be there for the next 10 years at least. thousand of people will be dead because jr. made a mistake. bummer....
Among the errors cited [about] the disgruntled Democrat...
continuing to run for the presidency after getting his ass kicked eight weeks ago.
LOL! Duh..... I hadn't caught it, thanks for the explanation.
I'm not usually this dense-normally I'm much denser.
Not that I know of.
Well .. maybe we should pile on the Pentagon and ask them why they allowed this TRAITOR to speak with our troops and speak evil of the President of the United States.
I'm really outraged about this. Hillary was bad enough .. but this idiot should has no business TELLING OUR TROOPS ANYTHING.
The decisions about the WAR are NOT his to make - he needs to shut up.
Why am I suddenly drooling.........hope it isn't indicative of a stroke.........
"do you think that Lurch is trying to do with Iraq like he did with Viet Nam?"
Of course he is.
Once a traitor, always a traitor.
"Jane Fonda" bump.
Who knows? Maybe he wants to be Saddam's defense attorney.
That's pretty damn low, even for John Kerry!
Yeah, I wonder how many letters home he wrote in the four months he was there when he wasn't writing up medal recommendations for himself or making movies of his heroic exploits.
When's sKerry going to share that marvelous plan of his with the rest of us?
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