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."
All of his demoralizing comments aside, .....................what the heck is he doing over there?
I hope there is a shadow over there watching this guy. Considering his shaded history, I do not trust this guy one bit!!!!!
I love you man, but "take me off your ping list" means "Don't ping me anymotre." At least not about this Kerry stuff. We have other fish that need immediate frying.
I didn't see a press release about what he talked about with Jordan's King Abdullah nor do I expect to read one about what he says to Assad of Syria when he goes there.
Drop him instead of the ball in Times Square next New Year's Eve.
Leni
Two thoughts occur:
First, this is an absolutely unconscionable act. For him to say these things in a foreign country is bad enough. For him to do so in a country where our troops are in contact is designed to undermine their support for their commander in chief and is traitorous. That they saw through him before the election and will certainly do so now is the only saving grace, here.
Second, this is the liberal definition of "support our troops", and it's a definition that they don't understand meets the traitorous definition above. You can't support the troops while undermining support for their mission, no matter how 'fraudulent' you think that mission is. If you undermine the troops' sense that they are doing the Right Thing for the Right Reasons, you creat doubt in them -- and self-doubt can be deadly in combat.
John Freakin' Kerry is a move(ment), bowel that is!
Time to "begin the healing," right, Senator Slimehead?!
I had to count to twenty to keep from typing rampant profanity!!!
well, kerry will be kerry. He just keeps proving me right. I knew President Bush had more class then skerry and I knew I worked hard for the right man for the job.
The sourpuss, sceptical, angry looks on the faces of the two soldiers standing to Kerry's right say it all.
"KERRY TRASHES BUSH IN BAGHDAD".....hummmmmmmmm. Headline at home read "KERRY TAKEN OUT WITH THE TRASH ON ELECTION DAY".
And none of the soldiers beat the crap out of him?
He must be interviewing for Baghdad Bob's old Job!!!!
This subhuman should be brought up on charges
"For once I agree with Kerry, Bremer should not have disbanded the Iraqi army."
Its not whether he's right or wrong, its about the audience and the locale; poor judgement (as usual for this moron).
They call it SEDITION, friends, and it should be pushed.
Or, the new documentary from Michael Moore: HANOI, PART DEUX
I was under the impression that the Iraqi Army disbanded itself in the face of our army's advance.
all Massachusetts residents, please go to this page:
http://kerry.senate.gov/bandwidth/home.html
where, ONLY AS A RESIDENT, can you complain about his behavior.
Don't forget the premium he places upon listening to his 'people'; when the whistle-blower tried to inform him of the poor security at Logan Airport, Kerry didn't follow-up, because "the man wasn't a constituent".
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