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Senator Kerry urges dialogue with Iran, Syria
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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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iran; iraq; kerry; lurchmeister; lurchtoirrelevancy; suckuptoterror; syria; thelurchster; wot
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1 posted on 12/14/2006 7:54:04 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Pull a Nelson and do it himself.


2 posted on 12/14/2006 7:55:40 AM PST by tobyhill (The War on Terrorism is not for the weak.)
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To: Sub-Driver

This guy's complete ignorance of his irrelvance is getting embarrasing..


3 posted on 12/14/2006 7:55:50 AM PST by cardinal4
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To: Sub-Driver

Ah yes... Kerry visits Syria and supports talks with Iran... and has then the nerve to visit our troops in Iraq!?


4 posted on 12/14/2006 7:56:57 AM PST by SolidWood
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To: Sub-Driver

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?


5 posted on 12/14/2006 7:57:14 AM PST by RexBeach ("In war there is no substitute for victory." Douglas MacArthur)
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To: Sub-Driver

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.


6 posted on 12/14/2006 7:57:19 AM PST by EagleUSA
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To: Sub-Driver

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.


7 posted on 12/14/2006 7:57:20 AM PST by BenLurkin ("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
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To: Sub-Driver
"Syria needs to understand that and Iran needs to understand that, but I think it's important to begin a discussion," added Kerry,

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.

8 posted on 12/14/2006 7:58:42 AM PST by Snardius (How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?)
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To: BenLurkin

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!!


9 posted on 12/14/2006 7:59:15 AM PST by mmyers
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To: Sub-Driver
Iran has already said "convert to Islam or die".

Not a great starting place for a dialog, but maybe if we send the senator over there he can work out a schedule that both the US and Iran can abide by.

The logistics problem alone is daunting! The ceremonies, rugs, and books for those converting, the executions and graves for those who refuse, and running dhimmi issues with the fence-sitters would strain administration and supply chain both, unless carefully managed.

Is Kerry up to the task, I wonder?
10 posted on 12/14/2006 7:59:41 AM PST by DBrow
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To: Sub-Driver

Kerry is a fool, a coward, and a traitor to this nation.


11 posted on 12/14/2006 7:59:47 AM PST by OB1kNOb (This is no time for bleeding hearts, pacifists, and appeasers to prevail in free world opinion.)
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To: RexBeach
How about having those talks on the flight deck of an American aircraft carrier - at sea?

...while hooked up to the catapult.

12 posted on 12/14/2006 7:59:48 AM PST by Snardius (How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?)
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To: Sub-Driver

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.


13 posted on 12/14/2006 8:02:33 AM PST by JHBowden (President Giuliani in 2008! Law and Order. Solid Judges. Free Markets. Killing Terrorists.)
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people prefer doublethink over evidence. Ahem.
14 posted on 12/14/2006 8:03:25 AM PST by JHBowden (President Giuliani in 2008! Law and Order. Solid Judges. Free Markets. Killing Terrorists.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Peace in our time
15 posted on 12/14/2006 8:03:37 AM PST by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: Sub-Driver

...old habits are hard to break.


16 posted on 12/14/2006 8:06:56 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Sub-Driver

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/


17 posted on 12/14/2006 8:07:21 AM PST by DTogo (I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
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More and more Americans are wishing that Kerry would take up a dialogue with Mr Smith and Mr Wesson (as in sticking one end in his mouth and pulling the trigger).


Maybe he could use that otherwise unfired expensive gun that he used for his 'hunting' photo ops last election cycle. I recall that the Japanese had a technique of pulling the trigger with a toe.....
18 posted on 12/14/2006 8:08:38 AM PST by wodinoneeye
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To: Sub-Driver

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.


19 posted on 12/14/2006 8:08:48 AM PST by hgro
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To: Sub-Driver

20 posted on 12/14/2006 8:11:47 AM PST by ASA Vet (The WOT should have been over on 9/12/01.)
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