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Kerry calls Iraq vote his greatest regret
Boston Glob ^ | 10/11/06 | Rick Klein, Globe Staff

Posted on 10/11/2006 9:56:15 PM PDT by bitt

WASHINGTON --Four years to the day after voting to authorize war in Iraq, Senator John F. Kerry today asserted that the vote is his greatest regret of his political career, and said all lawmakers who voted for the war should admit that it was a mistake.

"There's nothing -- nothing -- in my life in public service I regret more, nothing even close," Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, wrote in a dispatch on the liberal blog HuffingtonPost.com. "We should all be willing to say: I was wrong, I should not have voted for the Iraq War Resolution."

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Throughout his 2004 presidential campaign, Kerry said that he would not have changed his vote to authorize force to topple Saddam Hussein. His struggles to articulate his position on the war epitomized his difficulty in communicating his campaign message.

Today's pronouncement marks Kerry's latest attempt to establish himself as a firmly anti-war senator as he prepares for another possible run for the White House. ..............

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


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To: bitt
""There's nothing -- nothing -- in my life in public service I regret more, nothing even close," Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, wrote in a dispatch on the liberal blog HuffingtonPost.com.

Oh, I can think of quite a few things you should be ashamed of, John F'ing Kerry, you scumbag.

How about being a traitor to the Nation and meeting with the enemy??
How about shooting an unarmed kid in the back then claiming a medal for it?
How about fleeing your fellow servicemen when they hit a underwater mine, leaving them to drown?
How about distributing the enemies propaganda used to torture POWS?<

And the list goes on and on.
If I were you John, I would deeply regret being alive knowing what a traitor to the nation and it's people you have been. A traitor, A coward, a LIAR. At the very least, you belong in prison John. In any other country, you would have been executed long ago, along with your accomplices.

61 posted on 10/11/2006 11:07:33 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You are on GOOD turf here. ;o)

Why don't you tell us about yourself on your page?

If you are military, the wimmen will love you. ;o)

As for me, I thank you for serving this great nation.


62 posted on 10/11/2006 11:09:19 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators. ~~ Will Rogers)
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To: george76

This video should be played by every news media in the country every night until the Nov election. Of course, they wouldn't do that - doesn't fit with their warped view of the world.


63 posted on 10/11/2006 11:09:34 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Father of a 10th Mountain Division Soldier fighting in Mahmudiyah)
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To: Nathan Zachary
A White Flag Fella - they aren't born every day and few of them sit in the august councils of our nation. In that respect Kerry is very special. Indeed.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

64 posted on 10/11/2006 11:11:08 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: bitt

ROTFLOL .. he's just trying to get to the left of Hillary.

What a putz!


65 posted on 10/11/2006 11:11:12 PM PDT by CyberAnt (Drive-By Media: Fake news, fake documents, fake polls)
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To: DoughtyOne
I've got to hand it to the Japanese. At least their failures in olden times would fall on their own sword. Kerry just falls on his face.

Must be the reason his face is so elongated.

66 posted on 10/11/2006 11:12:02 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Father of a 10th Mountain Division Soldier fighting in Mahmudiyah)
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To: bitt


What is....signing a 180
67 posted on 10/11/2006 11:17:02 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life)
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To: CyberAnt
" he's just trying to get to the left of Hillary{"

He's not worried about Hillery, he wants to get to the left of Fiengold.
68 posted on 10/11/2006 11:18:02 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Demonrats want the Gays out of Congress.....stand back and let them purge their base.)
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To: Beagle8U

Oh really .. Kerry's worried about Feingold ..?? What a hoot!


69 posted on 10/11/2006 11:20:25 PM PDT by CyberAnt (Drive-By Media: Fake news, fake documents, fake polls)
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To: CyberAnt
Fiengold voted against it, now all the far left RATS want him to run in 08. Kerry is screwed and he knows it.
70 posted on 10/11/2006 11:23:40 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Demonrats want the Gays out of Congress.....stand back and let them purge their base.)
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To: Beagle8U

Awwwwwe! Isn't that too bad ..?? Sorry .. I chocked up there for a minute.


71 posted on 10/11/2006 11:25:10 PM PDT by CyberAnt (Drive-By Media: Fake news, fake documents, fake polls)
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To: hdstmf
"His momma made an even greater mistake. Abortion wasn't legal at the time, but coat hangers were.

I bet she felt that regret the instant she saw that giant long head coming out. He must have been the ugliest baby she ever saw. That explains the lack of baby pics of the buffoon.

72 posted on 10/11/2006 11:26:58 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: CyberAnt
The true barking moonbats don't like Kerry anymore, they want Feigngold or Owl Gore. Those are their heroes at the moment.
73 posted on 10/11/2006 11:29:44 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Demonrats want the Gays out of Congress.....stand back and let them purge their base.)
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To: george76

I still say, somebody high up needs to read a laundry list of what the Democrats said in support of action against Saddam, and when they said them (right around x42's impeachment and right around the midterm election in 2002), and finish these JAMF's right then and there.


74 posted on 10/11/2006 11:32:02 PM PDT by Christian4Bush ("Ma'am, you don't have to thank us. You just go beat him for us." Soldier to Irey re: Murtha)
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To: Nathan Zachary
Kerry was such an ugly baby that the doctor spanked his mother.
75 posted on 10/11/2006 11:33:00 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Demonrats want the Gays out of Congress.....stand back and let them purge their base.)
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To: NonValueAdded
Not his multitude of votes against missile defense? Why, just today the democRATs were trying to convince us they were always supportive of Star Wars. Kerry is the stuff pond scum scrapes off their shoes.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is time to go back in time, to a truth-telling Democrat...rare as they are...you are entering a world of sight and sound, and of character...you are entering...the Zell Miller Zone:

"Together, Kennedy/Kerry have opposed the very weapons system that won the Cold War and that is now winning the War on Terror.

"Listing all the weapon systems that Senator Kerry tried his best to shut down sounds like an auctioneer selling off our national security but Americans need to know the facts.

"The B-1 bomber, that Senator Kerry opposed, dropped 40% of the bombs in the first six months of Operation Enduring Freedom.

"The B-2 bomber, that Senator Kerry opposed, delivered air strikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan and Hussein's command post in Iraq.

"The F-14A Tomcats, that Senator Kerry opposed, shot down Khadifi's Libyan MIGs over the Gulf of Sidra. The modernized F-14D, that Senator Kerry opposed, delivered missile strikes against Tora Bora.

"The Apache helicopter, that Senator Kerry opposed, took out those Republican Guard tanks in Kuwait in the Gulf War. The F-15 Eagles, that Senator Kerry opposed, flew cover over our Nation's Capital and this very city after 9/11.

"I could go on and on and on: Against the Patriot Missile that shot down Saddam Hussein's scud missiles over Israel, Against the Aegis air-defense cruiser, Against the Strategic Defense Initiative, Against the Trident missile, against, against, against.

"This is the man who wants to be the Commander in Chief of our U.S. Armed Forces?

"U.S. forces armed with what? Spitballs?"

(Zell Miller speech at the 2004 RNC, Madison Square Garden)

76 posted on 10/11/2006 11:39:42 PM PDT by Christian4Bush ("Ma'am, you don't have to thank us. You just go beat him for us." Soldier to Irey re: Murtha)
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To: bitt

Please pass my best wishes to Tonk....
I'll pray for him..

Semper Fi


77 posted on 10/11/2006 11:44:06 PM PDT by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: Christian4Bush
You mean Kerry quotes like this?

Johm Kerry talking to Tim Russert on NBC's "Meet The Press," (1/11/04)

"Saddam Hussein took us to war once before. In that war, young Americans were killed. He went to war in order to take over the oil fields. It wasn't just an invasion of Kuwait. He was heading for the oil fields of Saudi Arabia. And that would have had a profound effect on the security of the United States. This is a man who has used weapons of mass destruction, unlike other people on this Earth today, not only against other people but against his own people. This is a man who tried to assassinate a former president of the United States, a man who lobbed 36 missiles into Israel in order to destabilize the Middle East, a man who is so capable of miscalculation that he even brought this war on himself. This is a man who, if he was left uncaptured, would have continued to be able to organize the Ba'athists. He would have continued to terrorize the people, just in their minds, because of 30 years of terror in Iraq."

Flip Flop, flip flop, flip flop.

That's the sounds Kerry makes as he walks. There are so many kerry flip flop quotes, I'd need a separate hard drive to store them all.

78 posted on 10/11/2006 11:49:54 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: bitt
""The president attacks the place that has no weapons of mass destruction and does nothing about the place that does," Kerry told reporters at a campaign stop for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jack Carter.

So I suppose this means that John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, voted to authorize war against "the place that has no weapons of mass destruction" (as if that was the only reason given on the senate resolution, you duplicitous French bred asshole), and advocated action against it while President Bush was still in Texas...

Somebody in authority, tell the truth. The Dims were in lockstep about Saddam Hussein when Clinton brought it up around impeachment, and they were in lockstep about it around the time of the 2002 Elections (ironically, the last time Flipper was up for reelection). When it didn't work, and not only didn't regain the House for them, it lost them the Senate, they showed their true colors. When supporting the war vote didn't work for Flurch and the Breck Girl, they showed their true colors.

Another reason why I'm never voting for these two "chin*adas", and never will. ("chin*ada" = "****head", for our Spanish speaking friends in Rio Linda)

And of course, Flurch says this, while campaigning for someone whose father was an unmitigated disaster as President, and one of the reasons there have been only 2 Democrat presidents in the last 30 years.

79 posted on 10/11/2006 11:51:16 PM PDT by Christian4Bush ("Ma'am, you don't have to thank us. You just go beat him for us." Soldier to Irey re: Murtha)
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To: bitt

I was for it, before I was against it, than I was for it, than I was against it.........again.


80 posted on 10/11/2006 11:53:23 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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