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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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