Kerry demands US troop pullout - Regrets his vote for war resolution ("I WAS WRONG")

Boston Globe ^ | June 14, 2006 | Rick Klein, Globe Staff

[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."

[Northern Yankee]

John Kerry just inserted his foot into his mouth again.

I am trying to remember if he ever took it out?

[Northern Yankee]

Must be that Nuance` style of his.

What's his butler doing these days?

[cvq3842]

Good article!

[sgtbono2002]

The biggest jerks are the people of Mass. who keep bringing this crap back to the Senate year after year.

Is there any way we can force mass. to secede?

[verity]

A man without honor.

[Humble Servant]

"Kerry has no clue how he comes across does he?"

I just LOVE that Kerry picks the morning Bush is in Baghdad shaking the hands of the new PM and his cabinet, days after the elimination of the enemy's leader and his "spiritual leader" (I still can't square spiritual leadership with sawing off the heads of people who came to help people, but then I'm not a lib), with poll numbers showing a big turnaround for the American public's perception that we will win this war, to come out with his most definitve, hard to renounce postion against the war yet.

ALL RIGHT, ALL YOU MOONBATS, STAND TOGETHER OVER THERE WHERE WE CAN SEE YOU, WITH THAT TRAITOROUS S.O.B. KERRY!

[hawkaw]

What a loser. How in the hell did the Rats ever nominate such a goof.

[KenD]

Hatred can make the most intelligent do and say stupid things.

My brother, who has expressed hatred of GWB, swallows all of the trash from the press that is anti-bush. He does genetic research and has PhD and MD degrees from Duke and yet his ability to apply critical thought processes to politics with GWB in the White House has disappeared.

I don't understand it and we just don't bring up politics on the rare occasions when we do talk.

[C210N]

"Our soldiers cannot bring democracy to Iraq at the barrel of a gun." - J. F. Kerry

Sometime, over 200 years ago, some folks here in America created a democracy at the barrel of a gun.

[Humble Servant]

"We need a "flip flop" picture to go along with this thread."

I'm thinking of making a waffle iron with Kerry's caricature in the design. Any takers? How much would you pay? Well don't answer, because we're not going to charge you anything! That's right, it's all FREEEE! We just raise your taxes by (only seventy-five installments of) $19.95, and it's all FREEEE!!!

[Northern Yankee]

It's amazing how emotion can overtake logic.

Whenever I get into political discussion with my liberal friends, they begin shouting.

At that point its done. They don't want to hear anything that might make sense.

[nikos1121]

I've said this many times before so I'll say it again, "crisply".

Question: Why is it that you can't circumcize John Kerry?


Answer: Because there's simply no end to that pri*k.

[Northern Yankee]

Sometime, over 200 years ago, some folks here in America created a democracy at the barrel of a gun.

And the sad thing is that this SOB is from Mass.

I guess that's what you call irony.

[AmericaUnited]

Ketchup Boy has IMPECCABLE TIMING! Just when a major, positive, turning point is being made, DUFUS comes out with this.

[OldFriend]

Proving once again that he is willing to betray the troops.

I hope all who served in Iraq remember this betrayal when it's time to vote in November.

By constantly agitating for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq these scum put our troops lives in more danger.

[sr4402]

I was right about the war before I was wrong, just as I was right about Christmas in Cambodia before I was wrong.

/Sarcasm off

[NavyCanDo]

I WAS FOR THE WAR BEFORE I WAS AGAINST IT.

[Humble Servant]

"And the sad thing is that this SOB is from Mass.

I guess that's what you call irony."

Waffle iron-y?
(See earlier post-hurry; they're going like hotcakes! Want a hotcake iron?)

[sr4402]

Don't worry, I will make sure their votes count as much as they did in 2000, not at all.

/sarcasm off

[Huck]

I like where Kerry said "you can't have it both ways" on the war. LoL. He oughta know!