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Kerry Accuses Bush of Incompetence on Iraq

 

By RON FOURNIER (Direct descendent of Joseph Stalin! - tha malcontent)
AP Political Writer Sept 20, 10:36 PM EDT


NEW YORK
(AP) � Staking out new ground on Iraq, Sen. John Kerry said Monday he would not have overthrown Saddam Hussein had he been in the White House, and he accused President Bush of "stubborn incompetence," dishonesty and colossal failures of judgment. Bush said Kerry was flip-flopping.

 

(ap) - Well, I thought it would be Educational to counter this piece of Propaganda the AP is attempting to pass off as "Objective Journalism", with Kerry's own words... Starting with his sounding much like he does today about Iraq II, after Voting FOR it, but this is back when a "real coalition" supported Iraq I, back in '91, and Kerry Voted Against it... Here's his "reasoning": "I voted against the timing of it, Cokie. I said very clearly in my statement on the Senate floor that I was committed to getting Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait ... and that I was prepared to go to war if it took that ..." ABC�s "Nightline," 11.27.1995 - tha malcontent)


Less than two years after voting to give Bush authority to invade Iraq, the Democratic candidate said the president had misused that power by rushing to war without the backing of allies, a post-war plan or proper equipment for U.S. troops. "None of which I would have done," Kerry said.

 

(Flip-Flop on how Saddam "IS" a Terrorist... "He is and has acted like a terrorist, and he has engaged in activities that are unacceptable." - Fox News� "The O�Reilly Factor," 12.11.2001 - tha malcontent)

"Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator who deserves his own special place in hell," he added. "But that was not, in itself, a reason to go to war. The satisfaction we take in his downfall does not hide this fact: We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure."

 

(J. Forbes on how the War on Terror would not end in the Ghanistan, but would include, "for instance, Saddam Hussein": "I think we clearly have to keep the pressure on terrorism globally. This doesn�t end with Afghanistan by any imagination. And I think the president has made that clear. I think we have made that clear. Terrorism is a global menace. It�s a scourge. And it is absolutely vital that we continue, for instance, Saddam Hussein." - CNN�s "Larry King Live," 12.14.2001... "I think WE have made it clear"?... - tha malcontent)

Bush hit back from a campaign rally in New Hampshire, interpreting Kerry's comment to mean the Democrat believes U.S. security would be better with Saddam still in power. "He's saying he prefers the stability of a dictatorship to the hope and security of democracy," the Republican incumbent said.

 

(Here we have JForbesK "agreeing completely" with Bush (43) taking out Saddam: "I agree completely with this Administration's goal of a regime change in Iraq..." 07.29.2002... Was he unclear, or did he really say he "agreed completely"?... Maybe he meant until the Deaniacs gained strength in the Primaries! - tha malcontent)

"Today, my opponent continued his pattern of twisting in the wind," Bush said. "He apparently woke up this morning and has now decided, No, we should not have invaded Iraq, after just last month saying he would have voted for force even knowing everything we know today."

 

(Here is Lurch explaining that Saddam only has himself to blame, even if "the enforcement is mostly at the hands of us, the US": "If Saddam Hussein is unwilling to bend to the international community's already existing order, then he will have invited enforcement... even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act." Kerry on unilateral enforcement against Iraq on 09.06.2002 - tha malcontent)

Both candidates addressed partisan crowds, drawing cheers and hoots as they stretched each other's records and rhetoric - mixing facts with political creativity toward the same goal: raising doubts about the other man's credibility.


Kerry called on Bush to do a much better job rallying allies, training Iraqi security forces, hastening reconstruction plans and ensuring that elections are conducted on time. But his speech was thin on details, with Kerry saying Bush's miscalculations had made solutions harder to come by.

 

(Here we have the Heinz Heir taking "The Maverick" to task on how unimportant WMD's are regarding dealing with Saddam: "I would disagree with John McCain that it�s the actual weapons of mass destruction he may use against us, it�s what he may do in another invasion of Kuwait or in a miscalculation about the Kurds or a miscalculation about Iran or particularly Israel. Those are the things that - that I think present the greatest danger. He may even miscalculate and slide these weapons off to terrorist groups to invite them to be a surrogate to use them against the United States. It�s the miscalculation that poses the greatest threat." - CBS� "Face The Nation," 09.15.2002 - tha malcontent)

Bush cited Kerry's four-point plan and dismissed it as proposing "exactly what we're currently doing."

With more than 1,000 U.S. troops killed in Iraq, including nearly 900 since Bush declared an end to major combat, with free elections in doubt, reconstruction efforts stalled and violence and kidnappings on the rise, Iraq could be Bush's biggest political liability. Even some Republican senators have begun to publicly second-guess the president's policies.

But Kerry has failed to capitalize thus far, struggling for months to find a clear, consistent way to differentiate his views from those of his Democratic rivals during the primary season and, since the spring, his general election foe in the White House.

 

(More on the specifics about Theresa's Boy-toy's belief that Bush (43) had the "RIGHT" to "act Unilaterally" to "protect our Interests": "But the president, as I also wrote in that article, always reserves the right to act unilaterally protect [sic] the interests of our country." - MSNBC�s "Hardball," 09.17.2002... Now call me crazy, but doesn't "Interests" leave the door wide open?... Sounds like Kerry was speaking the Bushese that he accuses Bush (43) of speaking, that day! - tha malcontent)

Kerry's advisers say they're not sure whether it is too late for the Democrat to make the Iraq critique resonate. Polls show voters favor Bush over Kerry on Iraq and terrorism. The president shines the spotlight on his foreign policy agenda with a visit Tuesday to the United Nations.

Kerry said in August that he would have voted in 2002 to give Bush war-making ability, even had he known no weapons of mass destruction would be found. He stood by the vote again Monday, saying the president needed to use the threat of force to "act effectively" against Saddam.

He made a distinction between that vote to grant a president war-making authority and what he himself would have done as commander in chief with such power.

 

(Kerry Voted For Iraq War Resolution. (H.J. Res. 114, CQ Vote #237: Passed 77-23: R 48-1; D 29-21; I 0-1, 10.11.2002, Kerry Voted "Yea"... As in Yes, for you DemocRAT Floridians! - tha malcontent)

"Yet today, President Bush tells us that he would do everything all over again, the same way. How can he possibly be serious?" Bush's presidential rival said at New York University.

"Is he really saying to Americans that if we had known there were no imminent threat, no weapons of mass destruction, no ties to al-Qaida, the United States should have invaded Iraq? My answer is resoundingly no because a commander in chief's first responsibility is to make a wise and responsible decision to keep America safe."

Kerry called national security "a central issue in this campaign," a bow to the fact that the race is being waged on Bush's terrain.

 

(Tell me what is unclear about this statement, MONTHS AFTER THE WAR: "It was the right decision to disarm Saddam Hussein, and when the President made the decision, I supported him, and I support the Fact that we did disarm him" Kerry on 05.03.2003 at a Televised DemocRAT Debate for the Presidential Nomination... Oh yeah, it was before the polls started Favoring Howard Dean! - tha malcontent)

"Invading Iraq was a crisis of historic proportions and, if we do not change course, there is the prospect of a war with no end in sight," he said.

Kerry used the word "truth" a dozen times to say Bush had dodged it. That doesn't count the number of times he said the president "failed to level" with Americans or misled and confused them. He blamed Bush for "colossal failures of judgment."

"This is stubborn incompetence," he said.

 

(And really close to when he took the Hardball Left-turn down Deaniac Lane, he spewed this gem: "I think it was the right decision to disarm Saddam Hussein, and when the President made the decision, I supported him, and I support the fact that we did disarm him." - ABC News Democrat Presidential Candidates Debate, Columbia, SC, 05.30.2003... What changed John?... The Facts didn't...   The Circumstances didn't...  Oh yeah, the Polls did.  If the "Free Press" was interested in Reporting the Facts, instead of giving Kitty Kelly 3 days on NBC's Today Show, then maybe Americans would know what a Dishonest Politician that the DemocRATS have chosen to take the Fall for HILLARY! 2008.  Kerry's job for the Party now, is to do as much harm to Bush (43)'s 2nd Term as Possible.  Anyway, I thought I would counter the AP spin on Rebuilding their Candidate, with the Candidates own words...  Because, you and I both know that they will not! - tha malcontent)

Kerry has sounded more hawkish, as in December when Democratic primary rival Howard Dean said the world was not safer with Saddam out of power. Anybody who believes that, Kerry said, doesn't "have the judgment to be president."

Reading that quote to his GOP crowd on Monday, Bush cracked: "I could not have said it better."

The running mates got into the act, too. "Iraq's a mess," said Democratic Sen. John Edwards, while Vice President Dick Cheney said Kerry offers only "confusion, weakness, uncertainty and indecision."

 

("Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry said on Monday he would have voted for the congressional resolution authorizing force against Iraq even if he had known then no weapons of mass destruction would be found. Taking up a challenge from President Bush, whom he will face in the Nov. 2 election, the Massachusetts senator said: "I'll answer it directly. Yes, I would have voted for the authority. I believe it is the right authority for a president to have but I would have used that authority effectively." - Reuters 08.09.2004... Apparently he was not "Direct" enough, because he sounded as if he was arguing with himself if you compare him from today, and August.  We call him "Flip-flop" for a reason.  But since the "Free Press" is too busy fronting Obviously Forged Documents in an attempt to harm the President, you will probably not hear Kerry in his own words.  His lack of Press Conferences since his Fellow Officers came out Against him hasn't helped the Cause of Honesty either!  Let me know when Dan Rather has room on CBS for Kerry's Fellow Decorated Officers, as he has found time for CBS/Viacom Anti-Bush (43) Vehicles Exclusively in the form of Paul O'Neil, Joe Wilson, and Richard Clark!  To deny this Bias, is to beg for Relief from the Burden of breathing! - tha malcontent)

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