Posted on 07/10/2009 2:34:34 PM PDT by Libloather
John Kerry Will Hold Oversight Hearings on Obama’s Afghanistan Surge
July 10, 2009 01:25 PM ET
By John Aloysius Farrell, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
I caught up with Sen. John Kerry this week and asked him about, among other things, the U.S. war in Afghanistan.
Kerry, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, disclosed that he's decided to hold oversight hearings on the Obama administrations handling of the war. You can read about it at GlobalPost.
Kerry is one of the few top government officials who can impact U.S. policy to have fought in Vietnam. He soured on the war, and came home and enlisted in the antiwar movement, which made him a hero to American liberals.
Liberals today are wary of Obama's decision to boost the number of troops in Afghanistan, and even though he is a Democratic president, several dozen members of the House have refused to vote for appropriations to fund his escalation.
That puts Kerry in a key spot. If he continues to endorse the Obama administration's handling of the war, he will lend his credibility to its efforts. On the other hand, if he emerges from the hearings as a critic of the war, he will complicate life at the White House considerably.
It was the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, during the chairmanship of Democratic Sen. William Fulbright, that gave the antiwar movement its first national platform, and official credibility, during the Vietnam War, when it held oversight hearings in 1966.
One can dream can't they?
Kerry was in Vietnam? Gee... didn't know that.
I think it’s hilarious...BO’s poll numbers dropping like a stone, probably because of liberals who are also pissed off at him for the Afghanistan surge and the ‘trigger’ language in the health care package. Doesn’t matter how—he’s still losing popularity, and he can’t get below 50% fast enough for me.
I don’t know if you guys know this but John Kerry served in Vietnam.
kerry should have been hung for treason long ago.
LLS
If he says anything critical of Dear Leader, he’s gonna be eligible for another Purple Heart!
John’s gonna get himself in some deep doo-doo if he’s not careful.
The Chosen 0ne brooks little dissent.
I’m not sure I believe it. I mean, wouldn’t he have mentioned it?
Seriesly?
You’ld think he would have mentioned it.
I like good ole John Kerry (haha).
Really? I wonder why he's never mentioned it.
That’s a no-win situation and probably will be.
Cambodia, too.
I wouldn’t to excited by this, it will end up as great praise and idolization for our Great Leader.
did you also hear that US soldiers raided villages?, not unlike Ghengis Khan?
he’s still losing popularity, and he can’t get below 50% fast enough for me.’
I won’t be happy until he is below .5 %. And proven to be not eligible in the first place.
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