Posted on 05/06/2006 1:39:47 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Kerry Accuses White House of Intolerance
By MIKE GLOVER, Associated Press Writer 15 minutes ago
Sen. John Kerry accused the Bush administration on Saturday of stirring up a "spirit of intolerance" to suppress dissent over the war in Iraq.
Kerry said the Bush administration is targeting opponents of the Iraq war in much the same way he was attacked for protesting failed policies in Vietnam in the 1970s.
"Dismissing dissent is not only wrong but dangerous when America's leadership is unwilling to admit mistakes, unwilling to engage in honest discussion and unwilling to hold itself accountable for the consequences of decisions made without genuine disclosure or genuine debate," said Kerry, D-Mass.
"Although no one is being jailed today for speaking out against the war in Iraq, the spirit of intolerance for dissent has risen steadily, and the habit of labeling dissenters as unpatriotic has become the common currency of the politicians currently running our country," he said.
Kerry, the Democratic nominee for president in 2004, spoke at Grinnell College. During his visit to Iowa he repeated his call for a deadline for American troops to be pulled out of Iraq by the end of the year.
"The Iraqis have shown they only respond to deadlines," he said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I think you've got to be tough here."
Kerry first drew public attention 35 years ago when, as a decorated Navy veteran, he testified to Congress in opposition to the Vietnam war. Some fellow veterans criticized him then, and his opposition to the war has been a point of controversy throughout his political career.
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Oh! Would that someone with access to Hanoi John Effing Kerry's DD-1080 "leak it!"
Lotsa other stuff "leaks." Whay not that one piece of paper?
For the good of the country?
Kerry is unpatriotic. He just doesn't realize it.
I think he finally did sign it and it showed he had a worse college score that Bush (The man he claims to be stupid) and then he tried to excuse the bad score by claiming to have been a drunk (What he tried to label Bush as).
You can't invent this pathetic stuff!
Please make him go away.
Maybe it's time for another thread on Alternate Universes. Surely Kerry has not been observing the events in the same universe as we have.
The Left is pathetic.
Sorry but those who would use the first amendment to DO AWAY with the first amendment ARE UNPATRIOTIC.
WHERE IS KERRY'S SECRET PLAN TO "WIN THE WAR"?
HAS DEAN FOUND OSAMA AT ANY OF HIS DNC MEETINGS?
Er, you are a traitor, Hanoi John!
What is intolerant about calling your a$$ out for treasonous speech and behavior?
Every time Kerry opens his mouth the only thing that comes out is BS. There should ba a crowd at every Kerry speech shouting BULLSHIT.
"BREATHES there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
'This is my own, my native land!'
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd
From wandering on a foreign strand?
If such there breathe, go, mark him well;
For him no Minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim;
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung."
~Sir Walter Scott
Oh contraire mon frair! He has the utmost loyalty to socialist rule!
Johnny's a hero in his mind!
Kerry is talking about himself here, right?
Kerry Says Bush Stifling Dissent
Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), in an address to a standing ovation at Boston's historic Faneuil Hall, said that those who disagree with the Bush administration's policies are being stifled. "Some, like Cindy Sheehan, have been arrested," said Kerry. "One man has been shot by Vice-President Cheney. Others are frightened into silence by stories of torture and terror of those who have fallen into the clutches of this evil administration."
"Bush Administration demands that the media be fair and unbiased in their reporting have sent a 'chill' through newsrooms across America," Kerry continued. "Broadcasters and editors have been intimidated into withholding criticism of the President's reckless war on terror. As a result, voters are inundated with pro-administration propaganda from virtually every news media outlet. My friends, our country is headed into a dark abyss of fascist oppression unless voters return control of congress to the Democratic Party."
Kerry went on to predict that his speech would be ignored by the media and he, himself, most likely arrested or assassinated by the CIA.
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He is a person with a deep grudge against parts of this country which have made it great. That grudge and its associated hate caused him to betray it.
They also have the mainstream media on their side, college professors, public schools, organized unions, the EEO police which are imbedded throughout federal govt. and big corporations, a legal activist organization ACLU, liberal jusges and law schools. Actually it is a miractle that there is any conservative or libertarian thinkers left in this country. We really have an uphill battle ahead of us.
It is really amazing to me that John Kerry doesn't see what an utterly clueless, ridiculous and irrelevant figure he is.
He's sort of a cross between Don Quixote and Leslie Nielsen.
ROFLOL!! You nailed it, Howlin!
Leave it to Lurch to suddenly blurt out that he's being put upon for being a traitor.
>>"The Iraqis have shown they only respond to deadlines," he said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I think you've got to be tough here."<<
I wonder if Senator Kerrey can see any downside to promising the insurgents we will leave on a certain date?
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