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Kerry: Bush officials 'so discredited' they're not relevant to Syria debate
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Posted on 09/05/2013 6:06:04 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Kerry: Bush officials 'so discredited' they're not relevant to Syria debate By Julian Pecquet - 09/05/13 08:41 PM ET

Bush administration officials are “so discredited” by the war in Iraq that their criticism of President Obama on Syria is irrelevant, Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday.

Kerry's comments on MSNBC's “All in with Chris Hayes” come after former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday called Obama the nation's “so-called commander in chief.” And Bush's hawkish ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, said Tuesday he'd vote “no” to avoid “taking sides.”

“It just doesn't make a difference to me, because they're so discredited by their own judgments that it's hard to see that they have a judgment today that is relevant to this,” Kerry said. “I'll listen to people whose judgment I clearly trust and respect.”

Kerry went on to vow that the limited action considered for Syria won't turn into another Iraq or Afghanistan, the two wars that began under Bush.

“We are not presenting to the American people the same shoddy intelligence that was presented to the American people back in Iraq,” he said. “We will not put American boots on the ground. We will not take over a civil war in which the United States clearly has no interest being directly involved.”

Bush has decided to remain silent.

“The president's got a tough choice to make,” he told Fox News last week, "and if he decides to use our military, he'll have the greatest military ever backing him up.”

Kerry's appearance on the liberal show aimed to shore up support for the authorization to use force in Syria, which faces an uphill battle in the House.

While Republicans make up 80 of the 110 House members leaning towards voting “no,” according to The Hill's latest whip count, 30 are Democrats. Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) is even rallying support against the measure: His online petition had garnered more than 50,000 signatures as of Thursday evening.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: brzenzski; corruptstate; israel; johnkerry; liar; nwo; russia; saudipuppets; syria; unitedkingdom; waronterror
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To: Sub-Driver

Half of the loudest voices FOR attacking Syria ARE former Bushies!!

Obama really wants somebody else to blame for NOT acting.


41 posted on 09/05/2013 7:09:23 PM PDT by G Larry (Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
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To: Gamecock

That pic is photoshopped. There are plenty of stupid pics of Kerry without posting this one.


42 posted on 09/05/2013 7:11:14 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Governor Sarah Heath Palin for President of the United States in 2016)
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To: JudyinCanada
Kerry is just as pathetic as his boss. He looks like a fool and when he opens his big mouth he proves it. Kerry claimed the terrorist rebels were becoming more moderate by the day. He was immediately discredited when a video came out showing his rebels executing captured Syrian soldiers who they also tortured. Talk about shoddy evidence.
43 posted on 09/05/2013 7:24:26 PM PDT by peeps36 (I'm Not A Racist, I Hate Douchebags f All Colors)
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To: Sub-Driver
This is beyond comedy............


“We are not presenting to the American people the same shoddy intelligence that was presented to the American people back in Iraq,”

Technically, that is not a lie by Kerry.

The Obama Administration is presenting absolutely no evidence or intelligence what so ever to justify their attack on Syria.

44 posted on 09/05/2013 7:30:44 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: Sub-Driver

““We will not put American boots on the ground.”

Just like there was no red line.


45 posted on 09/05/2013 7:35:23 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Just wanted to say I hope you great NSA folks are enjoying my posts here.)
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To: Sub-Driver

why won’t any Republican ask lurch why they should believe this administration on anything considering how they lied about Libya and covered up Fast & Furious...


46 posted on 09/05/2013 7:38:25 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: SusaninOhio

None of this matters to the boots (on the ground) licking press.


47 posted on 09/05/2013 7:46:54 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: Sub-Driver

But but Saddam gassed his own people...do the Iraqi victims of Saddam matter less cause a Republican regime intervened???


48 posted on 09/05/2013 8:15:53 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: Sub-Driver

In true Orwellian fashion, any memory of the Democrat’s very substantial support for the war was thrown down the memory hole.


49 posted on 09/05/2013 8:36:10 PM PDT by Red Dog #1
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To: All

wait, didn’t he vote for the authorization to use force? Or was it just his predecessor. Does he not trust her?


50 posted on 09/05/2013 8:52:05 PM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: Sub-Driver

This was true of Kerry in the 70s and now he’s doubling down. What a colossal dumbass.


51 posted on 09/05/2013 8:53:17 PM PDT by JerseyDvl (Cogito Ergo Doleo Soetoro, ABO and of course FUBO!)
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To: Sub-Driver

STFU you giant Smurf booger.

52 posted on 09/05/2013 10:02:00 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (The Presidency is broken.)
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To: Sub-Driver

53 posted on 09/05/2013 10:08:51 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Sub-Driver

Someone please publish a copy of his full SF-180.

Traitorous bastid.


54 posted on 09/05/2013 10:09:32 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Girlene

It’s more than Botox this time. That looks like a botched chin-chop.


55 posted on 09/05/2013 10:12:10 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Uncle Miltie: Obama poisoned race relations for a generation. Everything is racial now.)
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To: Gamecock; Registered

That pic is a photoshop created by ‘Registered’. They were both at that rally that day but did not stand/speak at the podium together. That photoshop pic has been used to discredit the right for years.

There are pics of them both sitting in the audience at that rally a couple rows apart but have been scrubbed. There are probably Freepers who still have those pics.


56 posted on 09/05/2013 10:21:42 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Gamecock

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Fonda_2004_election_photo_controversy


57 posted on 09/05/2013 10:23:44 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Sub-Driver
Struck a nerve concerning your drug using, homosexual, Muslim messiah there lurch?
Or maybe you're just angry because that kind of person did what you were to stupid to accomplish.
You both suck either way. Say, did you check the WH lawn for your discarded medals again recently?
58 posted on 09/05/2013 10:47:11 PM PDT by MaxMax (If you're not pissed off, you're not paying attention)
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To: Sub-Driver

US servicemen in Vietnam were barbarians who cut off arms and legs and ears and electrocuted people with their radio batteries and killed innocents like Jenjus Khan, and the Marines in Iraq were wanton murderers who woke people up in the middle of the night to terrorize their familes, but the Syrian rebels are “moderates”....

This assclown John Kerry was the perfect choice for the African communist Ubama’s regime - - he’s a liar and a fraud and in way, WAY over his head. I hope congressional Republicans spit in his face and tell him, “No. Now beat it, you scumbag.”


59 posted on 09/05/2013 10:55:53 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Sub-Driver
"“We are not presenting to the American people the same shoddy intelligence that was presented to the American people back in Iraq,"

So far, they have presented NOTHING to us. NOTHING. At least Bush sent Powell to the UN to show all kinds of things. What has Obama done besides blow hot air?

60 posted on 09/06/2013 12:58:25 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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