Posted on 12/14/2006 7:54:01 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Senator Kerry urges dialogue with Iran, Syria
10 minutes ago
U.S. Senator John Kerry, the Democratic candidate for the presidency in 2004, said on Thursday the U.S. administration should engage in dialogue with Syria and Iraq.
"I think it's important to talk and have dialogue, but you don't give up your principles and you don't make deals that are against your larger interest," Kerry told reporters after talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
"Syria needs to understand that and Iran needs to understand that, but I think it's important to begin a discussion," added Kerry, a Massachusetts senator.
Kerry, who is considering a second bid for the U.S. presidency, cited the example of late President Ronald Reagan calling the Soviet Union "the evil empire" but not hesitating to negotiate with then Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
Kerry left the Uunited States on Wednesday for a nine-day visit of the Middle East, including Iraq, and a meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but not a visit to Iran.
Fellow Democratic senator Bill Nelson of Florida met Assad in Damascus on Wednesday and said he saw an opening for dialogue with Syria.
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Pull a Nelson and do it himself.
This guy's complete ignorance of his irrelvance is getting embarrasing..
Ah yes... Kerry visits Syria and supports talks with Iran... and has then the nerve to visit our troops in Iraq!?
You cannot argue with a drunk, and you cannot negotiate with evil(unless you pull out a .44 magnum, pull back the hammer to full cock and place it on the table before you).
I do not object to talking. How about having those talks on the flight deck of an American aircraft carrier - at sea?
Yes, in typical "give-it-all-away" liberal fashion, Kerry is stumping for Clinton-Carter style STUPIDITY. Most likely, modelling the smashing success of our "negotiations" with North Korea...Kerry hopes to duplicate the excellent results achieved by dealing with totalitarian dictators.
Sure we should talk to Iran and Syria.
Tell them to stop supporting terror.
Give them one month to comply.
If they don't comply -- hit them hard.
This pompous a$$ "needs to understand that" he has been found out by the american public and they know he's a rich woman's poodle, a fraud, and that any fantasy that he'll be elected president is just that...a fantasy.
U.S. Senator John Kerry, the Democratic candidate for the presidency in 2004, said on Thursday the U.S. administration should engage in dialogue with Syria and Iraq.
Was this another mispoke??? We are in dialogue with Iraq!!
Kerry is a fool, a coward, and a traitor to this nation.
...while hooked up to the catapult.
Iran does not want to negotiate.
The Ayatollahs want to buy time so they can build the nukes for their apocalypse. The entire Iranian leadership has told us this EXPLICITLY, and like Mussolini and Hirohito in an earlier era, before prefer doublethink over evidence. Elites tell us the Iranians *must* be playing a game of "chess" we benighted westerners cannot understand, since no one would be that insane to believe in the 12th Mahdi and the end of times.
Well, except for us Republicans, who they claim are "just as bad" in wanting the end of the earth. The world didn't end when Israel bombed Iraq's Osirak facility in 1981, and it won't end if we hit Iran with robust airstrikes periodically.
...old habits are hard to break.
History repeating itself by the same schmuck who negotiated with the Enemy in '71:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/03/25/kerry_spoke_of_meeting_negotiators_on_vietnam/
This piece of excrement never ceases in stinking up the national scene. One would think that Heinz heiress would be overcome with the stench. On the otherhand, maybe she is just drowning her disgust in the sauce.
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