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Kerry's Syria Campaign Likely to Define His Legacy (Kerry's campaign now? O off the hook?)
The wall street journal ^ | September 1, 2013, 7:11 p.m | JAY SOLOMON

Posted on 09/01/2013 10:27:16 PM PDT by barmag25

WASHINGTON—U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has been on the international stage for nearly four decades. But his campaign against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad likely will define his diplomatic legacy.

In a little over two years, the former senator from Massachusetts who took the helm at the State Department in February, has morphed from Washington's leading advocate for engaging Syria's 47-year-old dictator to taking much more aggressive steps to unseat him, U.S. and Arab officials say.

This aggressive stance has placed Mr. Kerry at the center of Syria policy in successive U.S. administrations, despite President Barack Obama's tendency to dominate the development and execution of American foreign policy, say current and former U.S. officials.

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TOPICS: Government; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; US: Massachusetts; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iran; israel; johnkerry; kerry; lebanon; lurch; maheralassad; massachusetts; russia; syria; thebrotherdidit; thegoat; unitedkingdom; waronterror

1 posted on 09/01/2013 10:27:16 PM PDT by barmag25
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To: barmag25

Maybe Kerry can scratch himself three times, claim purple hearts and run home again. Then maybe someone with a little intelligence and ability can take over.


2 posted on 09/01/2013 10:36:38 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: barmag25

Given Kerry’s successful campaigns to help the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong take over So. Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia (Khmer Rouge), and their (Sen. Dodd, Harking, & Kerry) stop aid to the freedom fighters in Nicaragua efforts in the mid-1980’s, Kerry’s total failure as the new Secy of State, and everything in-between, the only legacy his is going to have is one of being our latest “traitor”.

Once Kerry’s real record of aiding our communist enemies is revealed, he will be be right up there with Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White, and the Rosenbergs.

His treason started a long time ago, and has never stopped. It began with his ego and has expanded into subversion. Read “Unfit for Command” by Jerry Corsi and John O’Neill to get one glimpse of the real Kerry. It just gets worse from then on.


3 posted on 09/01/2013 10:41:56 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: barmag25

Kerry’s legacy, just like Hanoi Jane’s legacy, was defined long ago as traitors and rank opportunists.


4 posted on 09/01/2013 10:53:52 PM PDT by DakotaRed (Why not just pass a law requiring criminals to obey the laws?)
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To: barmag25

He trotted out today and defended all of this nonsense.

Susan Rice sounded more convincing about BenGahazi.

The bottom line...a political whore is a political whore.

No matter what sex they are.


5 posted on 09/01/2013 11:51:22 PM PDT by berdie
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To: berdie
If anyone listened to odumbo’s speech the other day, he kept claiming that CONGRESS has the responsibility to make war on Syria, not himself. If NOTHING is done, history will blame them (Congress) and NOT odumbo, who incidentally got us into this mess by shooting off his mouth about crossing the red line. Like always, the responsibility and outcome will NEVER be his. How can anyone support that ba$tard?
6 posted on 09/02/2013 2:56:09 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: barmag25
Lurch "morphed" alright

 photo kerryassad_zpsfe505958.jpg

7 posted on 09/02/2013 3:31:12 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: barmag25

Horsel shit,
Kerry is defined by his testimony and lies he told a congressional committee about the Viet Nam war.
Kerry is and always be horse shit


8 posted on 09/02/2013 3:52:55 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) ( Hey Rubio, eat pooh pal))
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It’s KERRY’S WAR. So, as Rand Paul observed, who wants to be the first soldier to die in KERRY’S WAR?


9 posted on 09/02/2013 4:22:51 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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"Bashar Assad now joins the list of Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein [who] have used these weapons in time of war," he [Kerry] said.

But, Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction.......

10 posted on 09/02/2013 4:24:22 AM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: Enterprise

Who will be the first veteran to throw his medals over the White House fence to protest KERRY’S WAR?


11 posted on 09/02/2013 4:58:56 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Enterprise

When Forrest Gump gives a speech about KERRY’S WAR in Syria, will Juan Frenchee Kerree pull the plug?


12 posted on 09/02/2013 5:00:23 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Enterprise

Will Forrest Gump apologize to the Black Panthers for fighting at their party when they are protesting KERRY’S WAR?


13 posted on 09/02/2013 5:01:36 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Enterprise

Who will be the first person to burn a draft card to protest KERRY’S WAR?


14 posted on 09/02/2013 5:02:42 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: barmag25
Kerry's legacy
 photo kerrybubbleboy_zps612f4a0d.jpg
15 posted on 09/02/2013 7:56:09 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: silverleaf

when I saw that pic I thought.
“That’s right folks, Cambodia is back there.”


16 posted on 09/02/2013 8:00:44 AM PDT by Undecided 2012
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