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THE CASE FOR FLIP-FLOPPING (John Kerry alert!)
The Washington Post ^ | 12/24/2006 | John F. Kerry

Posted on 12/24/2006 6:53:58 AM PST by KCRW

There's something much worse than being accused of "flip-flopping": refusing to flip when it's obvious that your course of action is a flop.

I say this to President Bush as someone who learned the hard way how embracing the world's complexity can be twisted into a crude political shorthand. Barbed words can make for great politics. But with U.S. troops in Iraq in the middle of an escalating civil war, this is no time for politics. Refusing to change course for fear of the political fallout is not only dangerous -- it is immoral.

I'd rather explain a change of position any day than look a parent in the eye and tell them that their son or daughter had to die so that a broken policy could live.

No one should be looking for vindication in what is happening in Iraq today. The lesson here is not that some of us were right about Iraq or that some of us were wrong. The lesson is simply that we need to change course rapidly rather than perversely use mistakes already made and lives already given as an excuse to make more mistakes and lose even more lives

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: flipflopping; french; hanoijohn; insufferable; iraq; jeanfrancois; kerry; loser; pinhead; traitor; unfit; wot
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To: KCRW

OMG ... this isn't scrappleface, it really is JonCarry doing a self-parody.


21 posted on 12/24/2006 8:26:06 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Prayers for our patriot brother, 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub, now more than ever my FRiends.)
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To: KCRW

If idiots liberals had been patriotic and backed this war, it would have been over with.


22 posted on 12/24/2006 8:42:18 AM PST by Cobra64 (Why is the War on Terror being managed by the DEFENSE Department?)
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To: KCRW

Quoth the French Poodle:

Yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap!


23 posted on 12/24/2006 8:47:02 AM PST by Fresh Wind (All we are sa-a-a-ying, is give Beast a chance.)
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To: KCRW
Image hosted by Photobucket.com look at me... LOOK at ME!!!

Yooo Hooo... I'm over HERE!!!
24 posted on 12/24/2006 9:04:16 AM PST by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: KCRW

Why would President Bush need to change in Iraq since Kerry went to Syria and got their commitment to change their ways?


25 posted on 12/24/2006 9:10:53 AM PST by tobyhill (The War on Terrorism is not for the weak.)
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To: KCRW

Once a moron, always a moron.

The new babe who now runs the Outlook (editorial) section of the Washington Post (all articles except the official editorials) has made no secret that she is going to turn the already far-left slant of the section into a Daily KOs for the liberal limosine set. The occasional conservative article they would post to give them a cover of "balance" was thrown out and it now is just a flood of poorly written and reasoned columns from the Kerrys and Dodds and any RINO they can sucker in with a little ouff coverage in their Style section.

Even the comics in the Post are heavily loaded with ultra-left and reverse racist comics like Doonesbury, Boondocks, etc. This is the drivel that replaced classics like Calvin and Far Side.


26 posted on 12/24/2006 10:33:18 AM PST by oldbill
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To: KCRW

The biggest question? When will Jean-Fraude announce his candidacy for the RAT nomination?


27 posted on 12/24/2006 10:41:10 AM PST by freespirited (If it weren't for John McCain, George Soros would be just another rich guy.)
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To: KCRW

What a loser.


28 posted on 12/24/2006 11:06:40 AM PST by Kitten Festival
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To: KCRW

What a fool.


29 posted on 12/24/2006 11:07:39 AM PST by Kitten Festival
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To: All; KCRW

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No Joke.


JOHN KERRY =

Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education Camp (Communist SLAVE LABOR Camp)

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts

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30 posted on 12/24/2006 5:22:47 PM PST by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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To: Always Right


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HILLARY in a NY Cap =

DUKAKIS in a TANK

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31 posted on 12/24/2006 5:24:11 PM PST by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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To: Vaquero; All



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NEVER FORGET



Praise GOD that...
President BUSH has promised...


Freedom's Return to:

Communist Vietnam
Communist North Korea
Communist Cuba



..as well as..



Freedom's Arrival to:

All the Countires of the Middle East


...as America's own best self-protection against future Terrorist Attacks here at home.



NEVER FORGET

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32 posted on 12/24/2006 5:34:49 PM PST by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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To: KCRW

John Kerry needs a strait jacket and a Hannibal Lecter mask.


33 posted on 12/24/2006 5:37:49 PM PST by hershey
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To: johnny7

That's it in a nutshell.


34 posted on 12/24/2006 5:38:44 PM PST by hershey
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To: KCRW
Ha! I thought this said "Lip" flopping. Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

John, I done tol' you once! SHUT. YER. PIE. HOLE. !

Your Friend an butt buddy,

Teddy Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

35 posted on 12/24/2006 5:39:52 PM PST by Gunny Gene
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To: ALOHA RONNIE

Bush has been negligent of America in giving freedom to these horrid lands...

We need freedom FROM these lands, not for them.

I say bomb em back to the stone age.....then they will think twice about messing with us....and will gladly become a Democratic Nation, just like Japan did, tail between their legs, after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I dont drink the Bush Koolaid.


36 posted on 12/24/2006 5:48:18 PM PST by Vaquero (Moderate Islam is Radical Islams Trojan horse in the West)
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To: Vaquero


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http://www.orgs.cc/RAHS60/

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37 posted on 12/24/2006 5:55:14 PM PST by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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To: KCRW
John Kerry does not realize, in his baited ignorance, that it is 1938 all over again. Islamofascism will attempt a World Caliphate. We have seen these kind of tyrants before, under the lovely icons of the Third Reich, which was supposed to last a thousand years.

Well the Islamofascisist have lasted over a thousand years, and mean to conquer the world.With the help of ignorant fools like Johns Kerry, they might actually come out of their chocks fast enough to do it.

I am reminded of those historical sychophants to the National Socialists of Germant, Charles A. Lindbergh and Joseph Kennedy,both ignorant liberals who could not stand on the strength of fact and evidence, but went wool gathering into the presumed friendly arms of tyrants.Even today liberals are still trying to reconstruct them.

Like Kerry they were fools who too readily abandoned the basic American tenant that a human being, more than anything, longs for personal freedom. The human spirit thirsts for it and wilts without it. Men like Kerry too soon forget, impressed like parrots that look in mirrors and listen to their own words so much that they believe they have discovered more important truths, fooling themselves and as many others as they can take with them.

Nuts to you John Kerry. You are simply on the wrong side of history, and this weekend, the Ethiopians show us the way, as they have for countless centuries in this battle.

When all is said and done, this is how John Kerry will be remembered:

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38 posted on 12/24/2006 6:48:12 PM PST by Candor7 (Into Liberal flatulance goes the best hope of the West, and who wants to be a smart feller?)
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To: Egon

Nice post-

Do you write a blog?

If you do send me a link, if not- you should consider starting one. Most blogs are free and easy to start up.

This is well thought out, well written and easy to read and follow.

IMO, John Kerry has forgotten about one important ingredient when it comes to Iraq. He has completely forgotten about the Iraqi people and their needs.

I wonder if John Kerry has ever spoken to any of the Iraqi leaders?


39 posted on 12/24/2006 8:41:52 PM PST by KCRW
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To: Candor7

Wow- you should write a blog too!


40 posted on 12/24/2006 8:43:09 PM PST by KCRW
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