Posted on 01/30/2005 9:31:32 AM PST by kattracks
A bitter-sounding Sen. John Kerry dismissed the historic Iraqi election on Sunday, warning Americans not to "overhype" the watershed event."No one in the United States should try to overhype this election," Kerry told NBC's "Meet the Press." The failed presidential candidate questioned the historic referendum's legitimacy, saying, "It's hard to say that something is legitimate when a whole portion of the country can't vote and doesn't vote."
Kerry also pooh-poohed reports of a surprisingly high 72 percent turnout by Iraqi voters, insisting instead that the election has "gone as expected."
Asked if he thought Iraq was now less of a terrorist threat, Kerry at first said, "No, it's more. And, in fact, I believe the world is less safe today than it was two and a half years ago."
But he changed his answer moments later, after "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert pressed him on the bizarre claim.
"I'm glad Saddam Hussein is gone, and I've said that a hundred times," he insisted.
Doesn't this jerk ever tire of being proven wrong?
Yeah maybe collectively but our job as republicans is to seperate the wheat from the chaff among dems. I imagine if you confront a democrat individually with the pictures of the iraqis weeping because they now have the right to vote and ask them was it the wrong war at the wrong time? many would have a hard time swallowing that.
Who's John Kerry? The name seems to vaguely ring a bell.
This is so disgusting. Of course, his comments are already being jubilantly reported in the European press.
I can't understand why the Europeans care what a has-been (or never-was) like Kerry thinks about anything, but I suppose finding a reliable source for anti-Bush statements gives them great delight.
LOL~
More sour grapes, Senator?
LOL
But then, the libs don't believe in studying history - only revising it
Now he's on the coast of Cambodia, delivering arms to Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge? Last time he was up the Mekong River where it crosses the border from Cambodia to Vietnam. I can't believe anyone would think delivering arms to the Communist Khmer Rouge, supported at that time, IIRC, by the North Vietnamese, was something the US Navy and CIA would have been doing.
I can't believe what he said...the more I listen to him the more I get shocked...
Would Uber-Wanker do?
Apparently someone forgot to tell him the 2004 campaign is over.
Actually that post "War of Southern Secession" election was much less legitimate than yesterday's Iraqi vote. Sunnis were not prohibited from voting, they chose not to on their own. Texans *were* prohibited from voting in the 1868 election.
Indeed. LOL!
J. F'n K.
Don't go away mad, just go away.
While you're at it, STFU.
For some reason, I think I remember somebody telling me he was Vietnam....
oh wait...it was Kerry who said it...
over and over and over and over.....
TRANSLATION-
"Democrats don't like freedom. We are more supportive of despots, dictators, and communists. This is why we oppose freedom. This is why we rigged the election in Washington State. I'm John Kerry...and I am a dumba$$ loser....
By the way, did I mention that I was in Vietnam..."
This is from the interview you posted, Tonk.
"MR. RUSSERT: Specifically, do you agree with Senator Kennedy that 12,000 American troops should leave at once?
SEN. KERRY: No.
MR. RUSSERT: Do you believe there should be a specific timetable of withdrawal of American troops?
SEN. KERRY: No."
AMAZING...during the campaign he said we should have a timetable.
FLIP FLOP!
Personally, I don't want any exit strategy...I want a success strategy.
I don't mind taking on difficult assignments but separating the wheat from the chaff among dems requires a person with parents named Mary and Joseph.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6886726/
I am proud of the campaign, Tim.- Kerry
Soros Says Kerry's Failings Undermined Campaign Against Bush... -Drudge Report.
It's not a nation divided folks....its the Dems that are divided.
KERRY IS SUCH A LYING PIG>
SEN. KERRY: We were right on the border, Tim. What I explained to people and I told this any number of times, did I go into Cambodia on a mission? Yes, I did go into Cambodia on a mission. Was it on that night? No, it was not on that night. But we were right on the Cambodian border that night. We were ambushed there, as a matter of fact. And that is a matter of record, and we went into the rec-- you know, it's part of the Navy records. It's been documented by the other guys who were on my boat. And Steve Gardner, frankly, doesn't know where we were. It wasn't his job, and, you know, he wasn't involved in that. But we did go five miles into Cambodia. It was on another day. I jumbled the two together, but we were five miles into Cambodia. We went up on a mission with CIA agents--I believe they were CIA agents--CIA Special Ops guys. I even have some photographs of it, and I can document it. And it has been documented.
MR. RUSSERT: You'll release those photographs?
SEN. KERRY: I think they were shown. I gave them to the campaign, but...
MR. RUSSERT: And you have a hat that the CIA agent gave you?
SEN. KERRY: I still have the hat that he gave me, and I hope the guy would come out of the woodwork and say, "I'm the guy who went up with John Kerry. We delivered weapons to the Khmer Rouge on the coastline of Cambodia." We went out of Ha Tien, which is right in Vietnam. We went north up into the border. And I have some photographs of that, and that's what we did. So, you know, the two were jumbled together, but we were on the Cambodian border on Christmas Eve, absolutely.
MR. RUSSERT: Nixon was president-elect, not president, at that particular time. He wasn't sworn in until...
SEN. KERRY: In 1968, he wasn't sworn in yet.
MR. RUSSERT: But he was president-elect, not president.
SEN. KERRY: That's correct.
MR. RUSSERT: Many people who've been criticizing you have said: Senator, if you would just do one thing and that is sign Form 180, which would allow historians and journalists complete access to all your military records. Thus far, you have gotten the records, released them through your campaign. They say you should not be the filter. Sign Form 180 and let the historians...
SEN. KERRY: I'd be happy to put the records out. We put all the records out that I had been sent by the military. Then at the last moment, they sent some more stuff, which had some things that weren't even relevant to the record
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