Posted on 07/31/2006 7:32:29 PM PDT by bitt
It takes chutzpah, as they might say in Haifa, to declare that Hezbollah and Israel wouldn’t be fighting now if John Kerry were president.
Kerry, who did declare that, apparently has more chutzpah than nuance, as it turns out.
“If I was president, this wouldn’t have happened,” said the senator from Massachusetts.
“The president has been so absent on diplomacy when it comes to issues affecting the Middle East. … We’re going to have a lot of ground to make up (in 2008) because of it.” Because of Bush’s focus on Iraq, Kerry said, the president failed to address threats posed by other terrorist organizations.
“He has made it so much worse because of his lack of reality in going into Iraq,” said Kerry. And then, “We have to destroy Hezbollah.”
It’s impossible, of course, to know what we’d have been watching on television the past several days had Kerry been elected president. Would Hezbollah not have attacked Israel? To answer that, we have to back up a few steps and first ask whether we would have been less focused on Iraq had Kerry been elected in 2004.
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...Let’s pretend — after all, Kerry is pretending — that he could have soothed insurgents and terrorists alike and that, by now, most American troops would be home and Iraq would be enjoying the fruits of a fully functioning stable, democratic government.
We’ll give him that tea leaf. Having managed postwar Iraq better than the Bush administration, what about Iran? Without Iran’s support and provision of munitions, Hezbollah wouldn’t be kidnapping Israeli soldiers and launching rockets into Israel right now. Might we also assume that under the aura of a President Kerry, the Iranians would have passed on electing the Jew-hating, Holocaust-denying Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
What kind of people do we have in our government?
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Oh, I don't know, people who have been educated past their intelligence?
HAD to add 'de-nutted panty boy' to keywords...
Don't worry, when the time comes, he will have that healthy glow again, just like a ripe pumpkin.
You just keep on wishing in one hand and
ROFLOL!!!
yes, he has TOLD us that if he were President we would all be living in harmony, and probably we WOULD all be praying to the East by now...
stole that pic, been looking for it... :)
..so did I...(raspain.org)...:).
Doogle
http://www.seadogbytes.com/sbimages/KerryButthead_2a.gif
my latest favorite....
..my favorite, only cuz I'm a big Daffy fan
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