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The Speech the President Should Give
NY Times ^ | 6/28/05 | Edhallick

Posted on 06/28/2005 1:25:18 PM PDT by EdHallick

The Speech the President Should Give By JOHN F. KERRY

Boston

TONIGHT President Bush will discuss the situation in Iraq. It's long past time to get it right in Iraq. The Bush administration is courting disaster with its current course - a course with no realistic strategy for reducing the risks to our soldiers and increasing the odds for success.

The reality is that the Bush administration's choices have made Iraq into what it wasn't before the war - a breeding ground for jihadists. Today there are 16,000 to 20,000 jihadists and the number is growing. The administration has put itself - and, tragically, our troops, who pay the price every day - in a box of its own making. Getting out of this box won't be easy, but we owe it to our soldiers to make our best effort.

Our mission in Iraq is harder because the administration ignored the advice of others, went in largely alone, underestimated the likelihood and power of the insurgency, sent in too few troops to secure the country, destroyed the Iraqi army through de-Baathification, failed to secure ammunition dumps, refused to recognize the urgency of training Iraqi security forces and did no postwar planning. A little humility would go a long way - coupled with a strategy to succeed.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush43; skerry
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1 posted on 06/28/2005 1:25:19 PM PDT by EdHallick
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To: EdHallick

exit polls kerry next president
oh wait a minute
stfu jr senator


2 posted on 06/28/2005 1:27:21 PM PDT by italianquaker (CONFIRM THE JUDGES BUSH=MANDATE)
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To: EdHallick
You forgot the BARF ALERT!
3 posted on 06/28/2005 1:27:36 PM PDT by pabianice
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So what should the president say tonight? The first thing he should do is tell the truth to the American people.

This coming from that pillar of truth; John Effen sKerry.


4 posted on 06/28/2005 1:28:54 PM PDT by EdHallick (If there`s 5 days during the week and 2 days on the weekend, why is Feb the only month with 28 days?)
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To: EdHallick
John F. Kerry is a Democratic senator from Massachusetts.

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Sadly.

5 posted on 06/28/2005 1:29:15 PM PDT by trisham ("Live Free or Die," General John Stark, July 31, 1809)
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Wait...didn't this Kerry guy play the judge in the movie "My Cousin Vinny"?


6 posted on 06/28/2005 1:29:23 PM PDT by Christian4Bush (The modern Democratic Party: Attacking our defenders and defending our attackers.)
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"I'm scum. I'm firing all my appointments and resigning! God forgive me! People, forgive me for mentioning God! All hail the New York Times! Subscribe today!" That would be perfect for the NYT.


7 posted on 06/28/2005 1:29:33 PM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (<<< Ad Campaign for Durbin the Turban in profile)
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To: EdHallick; Owl_Eagle; Sam's Army; Dashing Dasher; patton; Darksheare; Fierce Allegiance; TheBigB; ..
"John F. Kerry is a Democratic senator from Massachusetts."

It should read, "John F. Kerry is a traitor, enemy sympathizer, and a coward who has no business commenting on military matters.

8 posted on 06/28/2005 1:30:09 PM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.)
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oops! How could I forget! Like Alex Trebek would say, ooo-soooorry!

BARF ALERT!!!!


9 posted on 06/28/2005 1:30:42 PM PDT by EdHallick (If there`s 5 days during the week and 2 days on the weekend, why is Feb the only month with 28 days?)
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Speech President Should Give...by RockinRight...

My Fellow Americans...

...We have officially issued a shoot-to-kill order on all fence-jumpers

...All insurgents will be shot in the testicles no questions asked

We've nuked Beijing, Pyongyang, Shanghai, Tehran, and Palestine-should no longer have problems with these guys...


10 posted on 06/28/2005 1:30:44 PM PDT by RockinRight (Conservatism is common sense, liberalism is just senseless.)
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Didn't he go to Viet Nam?


11 posted on 06/28/2005 1:31:37 PM PDT by demkicker (A skunk sat on a stump; the stump thunk the skunk stunk; the skunk thunk the stump stunk.)
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To: EdHallick

12 posted on 06/28/2005 1:32:33 PM PDT by Minnesocold
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To: EdHallick
Also here.
13 posted on 06/28/2005 1:34:01 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: demkicker

He was one of the greatest assets that the Vietnamese Communist Party ever had.


14 posted on 06/28/2005 1:34:22 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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Today there are 16,000 to 20,000 jihadists and the number is growing

How does he know this? Did he poll the Iraqis? What is he doing, going around asking "Are you a jihadist?"

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...

I refuse. Reading something Kerry wrote is bad enough. I will not increase the hit counter of that anti-america, leftist site at the same time.

15 posted on 06/28/2005 1:35:48 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Register to vote as a Dem! You get to vote in their primaries and it screws up their polling data!)
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The Bush administration is courting disaster with its current course - a course with no realistic strategy for reducing the risks to our soldiers

The best way to "reduce the risks to our soldiers" is to bring them home, but that wouldn't achieve our actual goals. Our actual strategic goals are to defeat the terrorists and Sunni dead-end insurgents, and to help stablize the nation so a new democratic government and society can be sustained, so that democracy and freedom can take root in the Middle East, thereby changing the entire equation there which has resulted in the rise of Islamist extremism. And Bush needs to hammer this home.

16 posted on 06/28/2005 1:37:17 PM PDT by My2Cents ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: EdHallick
Ahhhhhhhhhh.........

Duhhhhhhhhhh.....


17 posted on 06/28/2005 1:38:10 PM PDT by EdHallick (If there`s 5 days per week and 2 days on the weekend, why is Feb the only month with 28 days?)
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Another lie by the New York anti-American pro terrorist Times.


18 posted on 06/28/2005 1:38:52 PM PDT by YOUGOTIT
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The reality is that the Bush administration's choices have made Iraq into what it wasn't before the war - a breeding ground for jihadists.

Durka Durka Muhammad Jihad!

19 posted on 06/28/2005 1:39:42 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (Get all the incumbents out of politics!)
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To: EdHallick

The kind folks at the NYTimes sent me a letter in the mail today asking me to subscribe to their newspaper. Any response suggestions?


20 posted on 06/28/2005 1:40:11 PM PDT by RedBeaconNY (You heard me; I didn't stutter.)
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