Not prepared: Is Kerry even paying attention?

Unuin Leader ^ | 7/14/03

[kattracks]

SOMEONE on John Kerry's staff ought to show the senator a newspaper every now and then.

In Washington on Thursday, Kerry held a news conference in which he likened Iraq to Vietnam and accused the Bush administration of being too proud to let other nations help stabilize Saddam's former playground.

"I learned a long time ago in Vietnam what happens when pride gets in the way of making honest decisions," Kerry said. "We carried that war on for too many years because of pride. And I refuse to see us now put American soldiers in risk because we are unprepared to say, 'Where the world is prepared to be part of this, winning the peace in Iraq is not just an American interest, it's a global interest.'"

Kerry's comments came the day after Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced that 19 countries had people in Iraq assisting in the rebuilding and that another 19 had committed to helping out.

"Our goal is to get a large number of international forces from a lot of countries," Rumsfeld said at the press conference, which was covered by virtually every big media organization in the country. How could Kerry have missed that?

That wasn't the first time Rumsfeld announced the administration's intent to involve other nations in Iraq. In May he said the United States was in discussions to bring in other countries and the United Nations.

Either Kerry is not paying attention to what's going on, or he's deliberately misleading the voters.

[kattracks]

I'll go with the latter.

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[Miss Marple]

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[Ed_in_NJ]

When has a rat EVER let facts or the truth interfere with something they wanted to say?

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[EllaMinnow]

Either Kerry is not paying attention to what's going on, or he's deliberately misleading the voters.

Kerry is not paying attention to what's going on, and he is deliberately misleading the voters.

[Gabrielle Reilly]

GREAT! This obviously annoyed me yesterday. :) Glad someone did a story on it. Here is a related thread from yesterday.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/945428/posts

Posted by Gabrielle Reilly to JeanS
On News/Activism ^ 07/13/2003 4:16 PM CDT #12 of 24 ^

>>>>>>>>>>"The obligation of the United States government and the president is to rapidly internationalize the effort in Iraq, get the target off of American troops, bring other people, particularly Muslim-speaking and Arab-speaking Muslim troops, into the region," Kerry said.

"The president clearly doesn't have a plan to do that, and we're paying a price for it," he said. >>>>>>>>

The Administration are actively trying to recruit support, this is HIGH on the priority list. Keep up to date with your issue's Kerry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[cricket]

"Either Kerry is not paying attention to what's going on, or he's deliberately misleading the voters."

Kerry feels compelled to use his 'Vietnamspeak'; imagining that it gives him some authority he otherwise would not have.

His comments have nothing to do with the truth of anything in Iraq (much less his Vietnam experience). . .

But,we know that truth has no relevance, of course, for these Democrats; and they know that the creative context approach apparently works for their audiences. . .

[BMiles2112]

I learned a long time ago in Vietnam...

Can anyone find a quote from this a**bag that doesn't begin with some reference to his experience in Vietnam??

[George W. Bush]

Kerry's overplaying his but-I'm-a-vet trump card. Just trying to stay relevant and get a little free press in the slow summer months maybe.

[ravingnutter]

Heck, even the reporters are slow...I caught Kerry's error on 07/10/03 and posted it here

[Peach]

Kerry - not ready for prime time.

[johnny7]

My experience in Vietnam taught me that war dissenters always get full media coverage with unlimited photo-ops.

My experience in Vietnam taught me that big windmills should not be built off Nantucket harbor... only in states that voted for Bush.

My experience in Vietnam taught me that SUVs are not meant for the masses and that they yearn for small, slow and unreliable vehicles that haven't been invented yet.

And finaly, my experience in Vietnam taught me that a Johnson could get us in a quagmire but we could blame it on a Nixon.

-John Forbes Kerry

[pt17]

Kerry is, to quote Monty Python, a pusillanimous piece of puke masquerading as a presidential candidate. To say that I don't like the guy is an understatement.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

"I learned a long time ago in Vietnam what happens when pride gets in the way of making honest decisions," Kerry said. "We carried that war on for too many years because of pride.

The reason we stayed in Viet Nam for 10 tears was commitment. The reason we didn't wipe the Viet Cong off the map in short time was the strategy of limited proxy wars in our struggle with the Soviet Union. US and probably Soviet leaders preferred this strategy over an all out nuclear war. In other words, in those times it was the only way we could conduct war.

Put Kerry in the liar category for assigning an emotional attribute to the American chanracter.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

John Kerry's brain is still in Viet Nam.

[eyespysomething]

Was he in Vietnam?






/sarcasm

[Maceman]

"I learned a long time ago in Vietnam what happens when pride gets in the way of making honest decisions,"

Kerry served in Viet Nam? Gee, this is the first I've heard about it.

[TigersEye]

I guess he doesn't read the extremely liberal Times-Argus of Montpelier, VT. The headline Saturday was ...

Iraq to form a post-war government.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Kerry was (and still is) too young and immature to understand America's world view in the early 1950's that got us into S. Viet Nam. We had stopped Facism in Japan and Germany, pushed back Communism in Greece and South Korea and many in government believed we could remake most of Asia in our image. This view was widely held by the very liberal white-shoe folks in the State Department who had Ike's approval to spend billions to do it. China was not a serious threat and there were a few in Foggy Bottom who thought the Nationalist forces in Taiwan might retake at least some of mainland China. Even JFK liked the idea (ignore the current Liberal effort to re-write Kennedy history).
Kerry's reference to Viet Nam is all "me, me, me, I, I, etc."