Posted on 01/06/2010 11:44:45 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Kerry slams Cheney's 'hysteria' By Eric Zimmermann - 01/06/10 01:47 PM ET
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) is taking up the Democrats' cry against the GOP for "politicizing" the Christmas Day attack.
From a statement Kerry issued this afternoon:
“Unfortunately, too many Republicans have treated this episode as a political opportunity. Led by former Vice President Dick Cheney, they have resorted to partisan denunciations that serve no legitimate purpose and have no place in the nation’s vital debate over how to fight terrorism. The hysteria of Mr. Cheney and some of his fellow Republicans is sadly reminiscent of the days when the previous administration substituted fear mongering for sound policy and led us into an unnecessary and tragic war in Iraq while starving a necessary conflict in Afghanistan."
Full statement after the jump.
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) released the following statement this afternoon in reaction to GOP criticism following the attempted Christmas Day attack two weeks ago:
“The failed attempt to bring down a commercial aircraft on Christmas Day is a sober reminder that combating international terrorism remains an extremely urgent foreign policy priority and a top national security mission for the administration.
“Unfortunately, too many Republicans have treated this episode as a political opportunity. Led by former Vice President Dick Cheney, they have resorted to partisan denunciations that serve no legitimate purpose and have no place in the nation’s vital debate over how to fight terrorism. The hysteria of Mr. Cheney and some of his fellow Republicans is sadly reminiscent of the days when the previous administration substituted fear mongering for sound policy and led us into an unnecessary and tragic war in Iraq while starving a necessary conflict in Afghanistan.
“President Obama was right to demand a full and immediate review of the intelligence failures that permitted the would-be bomber to board a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. The president acted quickly and decisively while avoiding the sensationalism Americans too often witnessed over the last eight years. He should be applauded for forthrightly pinpointing the failure of our intelligence agencies to connect the dots available to them and demanding reforms that will reduce the chances of this sort of mistake occurring again.
“Congress has a vital role to play and critical questions to ask in ensuring that the reforms required to protect the American people will be implemented quickly and effectively.
“American foreign policy is strongest when it is bipartisan and there is no room for those who try to exploit a potentially tragic incident for political gain. We need a better discussion, and a bipartisan one, on these questions, and that will be an agenda for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 2010. Based on an ongoing staff investigation, the Committee will conduct a hearing on counter-terrorism policy in Yemen when Congress returns from recess in mid-January.
Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch seems to agree with us, on this one, and Koch is no Republican:
http://newsmax.com/Koch/Koch-Obama-Napolitano-Krauthammer/2010/01/05/id/345400
Isn’t Kerry the guy that was hysterically slapping people down on c-span for questioning Global Warming right before the emails broke the scam open?
Now that’s hysterical. That’s Kerry.
You mean like hammering GWB every day of his admin?
Kerry is truly an AHOLE to quote Dick "big time".
Another “upriver” moment.
I think he went to Cambodia for Christmas Eve and heard the Natives singing Christmas Carols.
Sorry all the clues are gone, he has to buy a consonant. Oh, wait. That's vowels and consonants not clues. Thinking of Jeopardy! I guess.
Hmm, who politicized the Vietnam war by supporting the commmunist enemy?
Kerry is a traitor. Pure and simple.
Kerry tell us how you wrote your own recommendation and citation for the Silver Star?
If it had been OK’d, here is Johnnie Kerry upon arrival in Tehran...
“Reporting for duty...”(saluting)
Didn’t Kerry just have his 2nd hip replaced this week? Did he interview from his Boston hospital room?
The word slam and johnfu-kingkerry just dont go together.He couldnt slam his way out of anything and he better not piss off Dick Cheney or he might just take him hunting.
ABC News obtained a copy of WRC-TV’s 1971 interview with Kerry and aired it Monday morning, re-igniting the controversy over Kerry’s anti-war past.
In the 1971 interview, Kerry told Washington’s WRC-TV he “gave back ... six, seven, eight, nine” medals. He answered a questions specifically about “medals.” He said nothing about giving back ribbons only. He made no distinction then, as he does now.
Flash forward to Monday.
In a somewhat heated interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Monday, Kerry insisted, “I stood up in front of my nation and took the ribbons off my chest” in front of TV cameras, he noted, and then threw those ribbons over a fence.
Traitor and Liar.
I wish Cheney was president. You can pool the I.Q. of the entire group of jerks in the government now and not have half of the intelligence of Cheney. The man is brilliant and he really cared about our country. John Kerry’s slur about him is silly.
“I draw a direct comparison of General Benedict Arnold of the Revolutionary War, to Lieutenant John Kerry. Both went off to war, fought, and then turned against their country. General Arnold crossed over to the British for money and position. John Kerry crossed over to the Vietnamese with his assistance to the anti-war movement, and his direct liaison with the Vietnamese diplomats in Paris. His reward- Political gain.”
Col. Geo. “Bud” Day
Awarded Medal of Honor
Congress can start by demanding that Kerry sign Form 180.
Why is it that when the dims are called on an issue where American lives and security are at stake, they respond by saying the GOP is “politicizing” it?
Kerry is just mad because the Army wanted to use his long chinny chin-chin to dig foxholes with. Seems as though he always has a problem with things happening around Christmas time, what with his going to Cambodia on that “secret spy mission”, and now the Fruit-of-the-boom-bomber on Christmas Day.
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