Posted on 06/14/2006 4:37:20 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
WASHINGTON -- Senator John F. Kerry is placing himself at the center of congressional action over the war in Iraq this week with a crisply worded resolution to require President Bush to withdraw almost all US troops by the end of this year.
The measure has exposed Kerry to attacks from Republicans and some Democrats, as critics rushed to tag the plan as a ``cut-and-run" strategy. But it also has made him a rallying point for antiwar activists.
The sweeping resolution amounts to the senator's sharpest condemnation of the war and his broadest repudiation of his own vote to authorize force. It also stands in contrast to his handling of the war issue during his campaign for president two years ago.
``My friends, war is no excuse for its own perpetuation," Kerry said before a group of cheering liberal activists who had gathered in Washington yesterday for a ``Take Back America" conference. ``It is essential to acknowledge that the war itself was a mistake -- to say the simple words that contain more truth than pride. . . . It was wrong and I was wrong to vote for that Iraqi war resolution."
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
"Hey... I voted for the war."
lurch is flip flopping on his flip flops, this could and still might be your president... or algore or the beast.
At one point?
I remember that being one of the most ludicrous charges he made toward Bush, that he might suddenly get weak and cave to 'pressure'.
This man was within several thousand votes of being our president. Thank you, Ohio.
I see that all the time with the dems that I work with. (not the picture, but the concept! ;) )
Not an ounce of sense.
"No matter how brave our soldiers are, no matter how valiant, no matter what their caring," said US Senator John Kerry, pictured here, "Our soldiers cannot bring democracy to Iraq at the barrel of a gun." Opposition Democrats used President George W. Bush's secret visit to Iraq as an opportunity to renew their calls for speedy end to America's military involvement there.(AFP/Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla)
The fact that this miserable turd ran for president is a national disgrace. I bet he spends his nights awake... questioning his right to exist.
For a man of so many varied and often opposite positions, Kerry takes exceptional pride in being wrong about all of them.
If they get any worse, they'll need a scanning electron proctoscope to find any grey cells left...
Yep... tell that to Zarqawi.
We need to invade Heinz ketchup and shut Lord Haw-Haw down.
John Kerry just inserted his foot into his mouth again.
Of course when we have the likes of Kerry to work with, it almost seems too easy. ; )
Pandering puke.
Jean Francois is truly the gift that keeps on giving :)
Kerry you didn't get elected as CIC, so no have no right to "demand" anything.
Another "Lookat Me!" moment by the losing candidate.
The very same day Bush goes to Baghdad.
Traitor.
The contrast between the Republicans and the Democrats couldn't be clearer.
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