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Kerry demands US troop pullout - Regrets his vote for war resolution ("I WAS WRONG")
Boston Globe ^
| June 14, 2006
| Rick Klein, Globe Staff
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 ...
TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: basshole; douchebag; flipflopflipflop; hanoijohnny; heinz; iraq; jackasses; kerry; ketchup; ketchupboy; misternuance; rats; traitor; waronterror; wot
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To: Humble Servant
Back during the 2004 campaign Glenn Beck fans from Ohio made a float. It was a talking Waffle Head. Hilarious. He has a sound bit on his site of them making the soundtrack for the talking Waffle Head. I laugh hard everytime I listen to it.
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posted on
06/14/2006 5:21:43 AM PDT
by
dawn53
To: Chi-townChief
click the Image to watch the video
Transcript: (John Kerry on "Face the Nation" 9/15/02")
I would disagree with John McCain, that it's actual weapons of mass destruction that may be used against us, it's what he may do in another invasion of Kuwait or in a miscalculation about the Kurds or a miscalculation about Iran or particularly Israel. Those are the things that uh, I think present the greatest danger. He may even miscalculate and slide these weapons off to terrorist groups and invite them to be a surrogate to use them against the United States. It's the miscalculation that poses the greatest threat.
(John Kerry on "Hardball 9/17/02")
But the President, as I also wrote in that article, always reserves the right to act unilaterally to protect the interest of our country.
If you have the bandwidth, here is the LINK to the better, longer and larger video. This is a 3:35 long, 4 Mb .wmv Video.
If you want the entire video, it is over 12 minutes long and is good quality, so it is 24.7 Mb in .wmv format. Click HERE. This is good stuff.
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posted on
06/14/2006 5:22:32 AM PDT
by
DocRock
To: Chi-townChief
How can we be sure he is right now? Or that in two months he will say he was wrong to say he was wrong?
Hey Kerry, you don't get a REDO on decisions, you make them with the info you have and then you live with that decision. And "there's no crying in baseball".
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posted on
06/14/2006 5:23:19 AM PDT
by
RobFromGa
(The GOP will retain the Senate and House in 2006- Let's Do Something With It!)
To: Chi-townChief
He wasn't lied to at all. Guess he would prefer Saddamn was still in power murdering by the thousands and Zaqueeri was alive.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
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posted on
06/14/2006 5:23:46 AM PDT
by
bray
(Hey Zaqueeri, how ya like those IEDs???)
To: Chi-townChief
If Kerry ever loses the prestige conferred by being a senator, his raisin brained wife will drop him like a bad habit.
To: Chi-townChief
Proper response:
"When Iraqi people, with faith in their elected government, confident in the justice of their laws, and secure in their strength of arms, ASK us to leave, we will."
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posted on
06/14/2006 5:25:26 AM PDT
by
Little Ray
(If you want to be a martyr, we want to martyr you.)
To: Chi-townChief
So, now he's even flip-flopping on his flip-flopping? I guess his competitive spirit keeps pushing him to pursue and surpass his own personal best...
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posted on
06/14/2006 5:25:37 AM PDT
by
Hegemony Cricket
(Rugged individualists of the world, unite!)
To: Humble Servant
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posted on
06/14/2006 5:27:03 AM PDT
by
dawn53
To: SlowBoat407
Well, that's logical. :-)
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posted on
06/14/2006 5:27:17 AM PDT
by
Hegemony Cricket
(Rugged individualists of the world, unite!)
To: RobFromGa
Just because he said something right yesterday and he says something right today does not mean he didn't waffle.
Behind the scenes of the intervening 24 hours, we don't know how many dozens or even hundreds of times he switched his view.
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posted on
06/14/2006 5:27:43 AM PDT
by
C210N
(Bush SPYED, Terrorists DIED!)
To: Chi-townChief
Isn't this the same straight shooter that promised in 04' that if elected he would increase troop levels?
It must be painful to have such big balls.
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posted on
06/14/2006 5:28:29 AM PDT
by
spikeytx86
(Pray for Democrats for they have been brainwashed by there fruity little club.)
To: sr4402
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posted on
06/14/2006 5:30:36 AM PDT
by
God luvs America
(When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
To: Chi-townChief
Well to reverse the ironic twist of Rush Limbaughs theme song My City was gone by the Pretenders....Way to go Ohio!!!
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posted on
06/14/2006 5:31:14 AM PDT
by
xp38
To: Northern Yankee
I heard his butler has been chastized, more than once, for getting shoe polish on his teeth.
To: DocRock
do any of those videos include the '98 interview with Larry King when he reccomemds unilateral action against Iraq saying "I'm ahead of the President"...
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posted on
06/14/2006 5:33:17 AM PDT
by
God luvs America
(When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
To: RetSignman
To: Chi-townChief
Imagine that...John Kerry waffling.
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posted on
06/14/2006 5:36:27 AM PDT
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayne)
To: Chi-townChief
The terrorists are bummed by the whole Zarqawi thing. So dems like Kerry are trying to buck them up.
To: Chi-townChief
"I voted for it before I wished I had voted against it"
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posted on
06/14/2006 5:47:43 AM PDT
by
Vinnie
To: Northern Yankee
There's a solution for that. Don't have liberal friends. After all as my mother used to tell me you are judged by the company you keep :)
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posted on
06/14/2006 5:56:41 AM PDT
by
D1X1E
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