Posted on 04/09/2006 9:15:35 AM PDT by Carl/NewsMax
2008 presidential hopeful John Kerry said Sunday that he opposes a U.S. strike against Iran's nuclear facilities that would involve nuclear bunker-busting bombs - and announced his support for Sen. Russ Feingold proposal to censure President Bush.
Asked about reports that U.S. contingency plans include using "tactical nuclear devices" in a possible Iran attack, Kerry told NBC's "Meet the Press":
"I think that is another example of the move from the hip, shoot for the hip, cowboy diplomacy of this administration . . . For us to think about exploding tactical nuclear weapons in some ways is the height of irresponsibility. It would be destructive to any non-proliferation efforts. And the military assessment is [that] it won't work; that even this bombing strategy itself would not work."
Kerry said that instead, the Bush administration should beef up diplomatic efforts and enlist the help of other nations to persuade Tehran to abandon it's nuclear weapons program.
Asked if his opposition to military strike meant he would accept Iran obtaining nuclear weapons, Kerry said: "No, I'm not accepting it. And I've said point blank that you leave that option on the table for the end. But I don't think using tactical nuclear weapons still makes sense."
Kerry was also asked if he would vote for Sen. Russ Feingold's proposal to censure President Bush for wiretapping U.S.-based terrorists who are in contact with al Qaida.
"Yes," the Massachusetts Democrat told "Meet the Press." "[Bush] violated the law, in my judgment . . . A censure for inappropriate behavior is appropriate."
Asked if Bush should be impeached - an option that Feingold says remains open - Kerry said: "I think this impeachment talk is a waste of time. I don't want to go down that road."
That settles it, then. Nuke strike it is.
Tell Kerry to take another Prozac and don't call in the morning.
That Kerry, he's widdit. He reads all doz big headlines on dem newspapers. Unlike de rest of doz Dems dat can't read.
And the sun came up this morning.... Yawn
kerry proves himself ineffective and totally incapable of thinking on his own...his life is a lie!!
Doogle
And also utterly ineffective.It probably should precede any other action. Only remaining option after diplomacy and censure fail would be internal regime change. But if that's in play the progress toward it is imperceptible and thus not nearly fast enough.
Hey John... are you sure?
Why can't we just elect mullah's for our Senators... cut out the middlemen?
ROFL!!!
Talk about how low our media and the dems can go.
Hersch puts out a completely fabricated story about using bunker nukes and then the dems come out and say Bush shouldn't use nukes even though he is considering it. And people actually fall for this tripe.
OOOOH what a surprise!! Kerry's play book just reads:
"If it's Bush's idea it's bad & I'm against it"
Sure John, good thinking as usual.
We must wait until they are used against us first?
Well, then he could proclaim, "I was against it before I was for it".
Of course he does. He's a friggin' weak dweeb idiot and ALWAYS on the wrong side of any issue (that is, before he changes his position).
Oh, John Kerry's opinion on nuke strikes against Iran? We've finally gotten John Kerry's advice on this issue? John Kerry has spoken?
Who cares?
It was a good horse and plowed a lot of fields, but it is dead.
He has not changed.
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