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Kerry: Iraq Election No Big Deal
NewsMax.com ^ | 1/30/05 | Carl Limbacher

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.



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To: hflynn

And we can do all things through that strength.


181 posted on 01/30/2005 12:14:12 PM PST by Walkingfeather (q)
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To: kattracks

He won't sign the 180...but he will smear those who have.
Kerry should understand that he will never be president.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6886726/
MR. RUSSERT: Would you sign Form 180?

SEN. KERRY: But everything, Tim...

MR. RUSSERT: Would you sign Form 180?

SEN. KERRY: Yes, I will. But everything that we put in it, Tim--everything we put in--I mean, everything that was out was a full documentation of all of the medical records, all of the fitness reports. And I'd call on those who have challenged me, let's see their records. I want to see the records of each of those people who have put up a challenge, because some of them have some serious questions in them, and it hasn't been appropriate...

MR. RUSSERT: So they should sign Form 180s for themselves as well?

SEN. KERRY: You bet.


182 posted on 01/30/2005 12:14:14 PM PST by ArmyBratproud
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To: Kristian
I can only guess she is a client at the Betty Ford clinic.

Never. TeRAYza doesn't have the honesty to admit she's an addict and never will. And why should she? She has enough paid companions around her to allow her to remain addicted to whatever while covering for her, picking her up off the floor, keeping her out of the press.

183 posted on 01/30/2005 12:18:04 PM PST by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: Condi4Prez

I'm shocked that Tim Russert asked him the stuff below.
I guess Tim realizes that he needs to get some crediblity back after going in the hole for the dems like the rest of the MSM during the campaigns.

MR. RUSSERT: Our affiliate, Channel 7 in Boston, WHDH, and Suffolk University took a poll asking Massachusetts voters, "Should Kerry run for president in 2008?" Yes, 33; no, 59. And the man who runs the poll, David Paleologos, has said that--"`Massachusetts voters have built a presidential ceiling over John Kerry's head,' said David Paleologos, director of Suffolk's Political Research Center." Six out of 10 Massachusetts voters don't want you to run again. Why?


184 posted on 01/30/2005 12:20:57 PM PST by ArmyBratproud
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To: kattracks

Kerry promised to release all his miliary papers. Someone should hold his feet to the fire. This guy does not do what he promises!


185 posted on 01/30/2005 12:21:11 PM PST by Revererdrv (e)
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To: kattracks
Kerry: Iraq Election No Big Deal

John Jacques Strap Effin Shove It Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes Ferreira Kerry today was the a**hole we all knew he was.

He is a classless, pretentious cold sh*thead.

186 posted on 01/30/2005 12:37:30 PM PST by beyond the sea (Barbara Boxer is Barbra Streisand on peyote ......and is the north end of a south bound mule.)
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To: socal_parrot

My metaphorical view concerning kerry is as follows, when rat&monkey feces morph into sub-human form. NSNR


187 posted on 01/30/2005 12:39:41 PM PST by No Surrender No Retreat
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To: kattracks

It's getting harder and harder to tell John Kerry from a horse's a$$


188 posted on 01/30/2005 12:50:13 PM PST by KosmicKitty (Well... There you go again!)
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To: kattracks

He will forever be HO CHI MINH KERRY

Traitor

Gigalo

Political has-been

Consumate liar

Unmerited honor

Fair-weather backstabber

Clymer

Deadbeat ex-husband

A no-show politician

Elite internationalist

French


189 posted on 01/30/2005 12:57:58 PM PST by sully777 (our descendants will be enslaved by political expediency and expenditure)
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To: kattracks; Alamo-Girl

Kerry always was a joke, and it appears after Russert's exchange this morning, that the party might send Kerry the way of Algore.

How will we know if a Clinton political hit on Kerry is taking place?

I can't imagine her not being the Democratic nominee in 2008. If she is not, then the only way that can come to pass is if one of her fellow democrats begins a clandestine war against her in the next 24 months. How will we recognize that when it takes place?

You KNOW Hillary had to have gotten hold of Kerry's FBI file.


190 posted on 01/30/2005 1:03:25 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
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To: xzins
Thank you so much for the ping and for your insights!

Indeed, I imagine she has already seen and perhaps organized very private information on all potential opposition to her candidacy - inside her party or not.

191 posted on 01/30/2005 1:12:51 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: kattracks
"No one in the United States should try to overhype this election," Kerry told NBC's "Meet the Press.

If Bush had lost the election, does anyone think that he would have been on "Meet the Liberal Press" this week? The only thing being overhyped is Kerry.

192 posted on 01/30/2005 1:24:18 PM PST by Starboard
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To: kattracks

Kerry/Kennedy...just pathetic!


194 posted on 01/30/2005 1:40:01 PM PST by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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To: smonk

Because he was the alternative to W.


195 posted on 01/30/2005 5:23:11 PM PST by Gondring (They can have my Bill of Rights when they pry it from my cold, dead hands!)
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To: stylin19a
Sometimes newsmax drives me nuts.

"Who cares about facts; you've got NewsMax!" :-(

196 posted on 01/30/2005 5:33:41 PM PST by Gondring (They can have my Bill of Rights when they pry it from my cold, dead hands!)
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To: kattracks
Here's the other guy with the "stinkie pinkie" (sort of) finger: John Frenchie Kerry, just like Jerry Rivers.


197 posted on 01/30/2005 5:53:50 PM PST by jws3sticks (Hillary can take a very long walk on a very short pier, anytime, and the sooner the better!)
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To: Fafhrd

I understand on quite a few of the ballots in Iraq the voters wrote in "not Kerry".


198 posted on 01/31/2005 8:25:43 AM PST by Beowulf9
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