Posted on 07/23/2006 11:59:04 PM PDT by aceintx
Kerry knocks Bush on handling of Mideast conflict
Valerie Olander / The Detroit News
U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D- Mass., who was in town Sunday to help Gov. Jennifer Granholm campaign for her re-election bid, took time to take a jab at the Bush administration for its lack of leadership in the Israeli-Lebanon conflict.
"If I was president, this wouldn't have happened," said Kerry during a noon stop at Honest John's bar and grill in Detroit's Cass Corridor.
Bush has been so concentrated on the war in Iraq that other Middle East tension arose as a result, he said.
"The president has been so absent on diplomacy when it comes to issues affecting the Middle East," Kerry said. "We're going to have a lot of ground to make up (in 2008) because of it."
Kerry lost by a narrow margin to Bush in 2004 and plans to seek the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 2008.
Today marks the 12th day of fighting between Israel and Lebanon. Israel launched air strikes after Hezbollah militants, whom operate within Lebanon, kidnapped two Israeli soldiers in an attempt to swap them for prisoners.
Israel began a ground invasion, sending tanks and troops across the border as thousands of Lebanese have fled to escape the fighting.
Hezbollah guerillas should have been targeted with other terrorist organizations, such as al-Qaida and the Taliban, which operate in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Kerry said. However, Bush, has focused military strength on Iraq.
"This is about American security and Bush has failed. He has made it so much worse because of his lack of reality in going into Iraq.…We have to destroy Hezbollah," he said.
Is there anything this guy can't do....we should make him President...he's such a know it all!!
Really?! Has anyone told Hillary!?
So Mr Kerry...are you saying you would have INVADED Lebanon to take out hezbolla?
Er...eh...no...
Shew. Mental illness is a terrible thing.
He's pandering to a Muzzie crowd in Detroit. Obviously "Honest John" doesn't refer to John Kerry.
"If I was president there would be world peace, the streeets would be paved with gold, and we would all live in candy castles with lemonaide moats."
Why is it he can solve all the world's complicated problems yet he has been unable to get a single piece of meaningful legislation passed in the US Senate?
Please, please, somebody make Lurch shut up!!!,,,,,and Dean too..........
If Yon ibn Qerri were elected Pres. the tsunami wouldn't have happened, there would be world peace by now, the birds would sing sweeter, the grass would be greener, we'd all be drinking free Bubble-Up and eating that rainbow stew.
There is an upside to Kerry flapping his gums and making himself look like the idiot, sack-of-s^^t that he is: I get to hear Rush's Kerry impression, which is pretty damned funny!
When Kerry was named to co-chair the Senate Committee investigating U.S. POWs and MIAs in Indochina many in Congress thought if anyone could clear up this controversy it would be a "war hero." Not only did Kerry hide, cover-up and shred evidence, his cousin, Stuart Forbes got a multi-billion-dollar contract from communist Vietnam to build ports and other infrastructure. He comes out of the most corrupt political machine in America. The same one that built the Big Dig.
...and Christopher Reeve would be walking.
He'd be dead, but he'd still be walking.
Wait a minute, that's not quite right...
So many terrorists to surrender to; so little time.
Who's Kerry?
Add to that...Christopher Reeve would be alive and walking.
LOL@Yon Ibn Qerri....good one!
"If I was president, this wouldn't have happened,"
If frogs had wings they wouldn't bruise their @sses so much.
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