He is, he was, he did, he didn't...
Posted on 06/14/2006 8:57:54 AM PDT by george76
Anti-war activists at a liberal gathering booed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday for opposing a set date for pulling U.S. troops from Iraq. Facing down the jeers, Clinton said Democrats need to have "a difficult conversation" about the war.
Another potential presidential candidate, Sen. John Kerry, spoke to the group later in the day and offered an emphatically anti-war appeal.
Kerry, who was widely criticized as the party's standard-bearer in 2004 for being too cautious in his criticism of the war, said Tuesday that politicians "cannot have it both ways."
In remarks that could have been aimed at Clinton, Kerry said: "It's not enough to argue with the logistics or to argue about the details. ... It is essential to acknowledge that the war itself was a mistake. ...
It was wrong, and I was wrong to vote for that Iraqi war resolution."
The Massachusetts senator is offering an amendment to withdraw troops from Iraq by the end of this year.
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is this Mrs. Bill Clinton?
Added keyword chutzpah.
OK, John, but were you right before you were wrong?
We must be on the verge of total victory. There is no other explanation for their abject fear of success in Iraq.
Ms. Clinton needs to REMIND Kerry's Koolaid drinkers that KERRY urged BILL Clinton to go after Saddam WITHOUT U.N approval...Kerry ONLY objects to going into Iraq if a REPUBLICAN is in the Whitehouse.
"Even today, Iraq is not nearly disarmed. Based on highly credible intelligence, UNSCOM [the U.N. weapons inspectors] suspects that Iraq still has biological agents like anthrax, botulinum toxin, and clostridium perfringens in sufficient quantity to fill several dozen bombs and ballistic missile warheads, as well as the means to continue manufacturing these deadly agents. Iraq probably retains several tons of the highly toxic VX substance, as well as sarin nerve gas and mustard gas. This agent is stored in artillery shells, bombs, and ballistic missile warheads. And Iraq retains significant dual-use industrial infrastructure that can be used to rapidly reconstitute large-scale chemical weapons production." -- Ex-Un Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter in 1998
"What is at stake is how to answer the potential threat Iraq represents with the risk of proliferation of WMD. Baghdad's regime did use such weapons in the past. Today, a number of evidences may lead to think that, over the past four years, in the absence of international inspectors, this country has continued armament programs." -- Jacques Chirac, October 16, 2002
"I am absolutely convinced that there are weapons...I saw evidence back in 1998 when we would see the inspectors being barred from gaining entry into a warehouse for three hours with trucks rolling up and then moving those trucks out." -- Clinton's Secretary of Defense William Cohen in April of 2003
That's like Ted Kennedy preaching temperance
I think the Democrats are in for another disappointing election.
Now that Bush isn't on the ballot to motivate the loonies to get out and vote, the only challenge now is for Republicans to excite the Right to show up and vote.
And really, the Republicans should know that it doesn't take much to get conservatives excited to vote. Immigration reform/enforcement, pro-life resolve, lower taxes, fiscal responsibility, social security reform, and energy independence in the form of loosening up some of the limits on drilling. All they have to do is pass a few of these measures and the Repubs will win in a landslide. Heck, pass any three of these measures and liberals will fulfill their promise and move to Canada... illegally.
I was playing with Google earth today and looking around Iraq. It's amazing the enormous expanses of empty desert that look like no one has set foot in them for a thousand years. The fact that they look untouched doesn't mean they are.
"If you allow someone like Saddam Hussein to get nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, chemical weapons, biological weapons, how many people is he going to kill with such weapons?
He's already demonstrated a willingness to use these weapons.
He poison-gassed his own people.
He used poison gas and other weapons of mass destruction against his neighbors.
This man has no compunction about killing lots and lots of people...."
-- Al Gore, Dec. 16, 1998
IIRC,Colin Powell showed satellite photos at the UN that showed an enormous number of trucks crossing the Iraq/Syria border in the weeks leading up to the invasion. Syria is lead by a Baathist dictator just like Sadaam.
Combine that with the fact that you're talking about find 55 gallon drums in a country the size of California and you've got a darn good explanation for not having found "the smoking gun" yet.
That may be the biggest laugh out loud ironic statement of the year.
Jim Webb needs to declare what camp he's in on this issue; HRC's or Kerry's?
Does this man (I use the word loosely) have even an ounce of conviction about anything? What a spineless, wishy-washy, wuss.
Oh, yeah. Webb must declare and, yes, he can have it "both ways"---dumb or dumber.
Go George Allen.
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