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Kerry: I'd have us in a 'different place'
CNN ^ | 11/17/05 | John Kerry

Posted on 11/18/2005 11:40:01 AM PST by Xanadu2112

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A top House Democrat called for a swift U.S. withdrawal from Iraq on Thursday amid a White House counteroffensive against allegations that the Bush administration misled the country over prewar intelligence. CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer spoke with Sen. John Kerry -- the Massachusetts Democrat who lost to President Bush in last year's election -- beginning by asking about the president recently quoting Kerry's prewar comments on Saddam Hussein. "I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a threat, and a grave threat, to our security," the president quoted Kerry saying, in part. BLITZER: You firmly believed that, going into the war -- that's why you voted for that resolution? KERRY: Providing he had those weapons, and providing -- which the president didn't quote, as he distorted again to America our position and the truth -- providing that he did the other things, which are: a follow-through on the inspections; not go unilaterally; build a legitimate coalition; plan carefully and go as a last resort. All of which the president said he would do; none of which he did do. The record is now clear. So I said in that very same speech, which the president did not quote, that if you proceeded too rapidly, if you didn't do the things I just described, you could make a volatile region more dangerous, you could attract more terrorists and you would make America less secure, not more. The president needs to stop being selective, and he needs to start to level with the American people. That speech on Friday, on Veterans Day -- a sacred day for veterans, which was a political-attack day for the president -- was not an honest speech.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
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To: Xanadu2112
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Elmer Fudd

41 posted on 11/18/2005 12:20:57 PM PST by Fred911
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To: pabianice

it is so difficult to listen to him, because all that I can concentrate on is him licking his lips and I can not stop counting, I wish Laura Ingraham had not mention that he reminds of a creepy lizard.


42 posted on 11/18/2005 12:24:16 PM PST by dubyawhoiluv
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To: Fred911

John F. Kerry-the most shameful and dispicable vermin produced in my generation. He is a useless, pompous fool. Only a place like Mass. could come up with a tag team of Kerry and Kennedy and reelect them every time.


43 posted on 11/18/2005 12:26:27 PM PST by AlphaOneAlpha
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To: bert

If he were President, Kerry would give each of the soldiers in Iraq three Purple Hearts, so they could all come home.


44 posted on 11/18/2005 12:33:52 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Xanadu2112
Is this the different place John?


45 posted on 11/18/2005 12:40:52 PM PST by Beckwith (The liberal press has picked sides ... and they have sided with the Islamofascists)
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To: Xanadu2112

yeah, in a different place alright..like up shit creek.


46 posted on 11/18/2005 12:45:07 PM PST by GeorgiaDawg
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To: GeorgiaDawg

Just ask the Gerbil about that..


47 posted on 11/18/2005 12:46:27 PM PST by Drammach (Freedom; not just a job, it's an adventure..)
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To: Xanadu2112

does that different places include high unemployment, an economy in a recession, and every american either dead or praying to allah.


48 posted on 11/18/2005 12:46:57 PM PST by Element187
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To: Xanadu2112

Who is John Kerry?


49 posted on 11/18/2005 12:47:04 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Xanadu2112

Cambodia on Christmas Eve?


50 posted on 11/18/2005 12:48:44 PM PST by TC Rider (The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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To: Cicero

I heard Theresa reads that to him every night at bed time.


51 posted on 11/18/2005 12:50:19 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum.)
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To: Xanadu2112

Cleaning his pool, mowing his lawn, soaking raisins in gin for the missus?


52 posted on 11/18/2005 12:55:16 PM PST by TheSpottedOwl ("President Bush, start building that wall"!)
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To: Xanadu2112

I am convinced that if Kerry had been President on 9/11 that on 9/12 he would have issued an apology for having built our buildings too high.


53 posted on 11/18/2005 1:04:30 PM PST by ops33 (Retired USAF Senior Master Sergeant)
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To: Species8472

Chilling! Just chilling! Instead, thanks to the efforts of the current administration, Al Qaeda is running short on money to fund its terrorist efforts.


54 posted on 11/18/2005 1:09:02 PM PST by rwa265 (The Promise of the Lord, I Will Proclaim Forever)
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To: Xanadu2112
JOHN KERRY: "Before America showed up, Iraq was a happy place. They had flowery meadows and rainbow skies, and rivers made of chocolate, where the children danced and laughed and played with gumdrop smiles."
55 posted on 11/18/2005 1:15:35 PM PST by isthisnickcool (Eternity? Smoking or nonsmoking?)
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Kerry: I'd have us in a 'different place'


56 posted on 11/18/2005 1:49:04 PM PST by Jaxter ("Vivit Post Funera Virtus")
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