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 Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 6:33 pm Post subject: AIM: "Senator John 'The Censor' Kerry" |
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A gentle reminder to His Fraudulency that still waters run deep...
| Quote: | Senator John "The Censor" Kerry
By Roger Aronoff | May 9, 2006
Accuracy In Media
Inset Text: Perhaps Kerry is trying to take attention off his current legal and public relations problems, as he weighs his options heading into the 2008 Democratic primaries.
Senator John Kerry, the defeated 2004 Democratic Presidential candidate, is sounding like a candidate again. But his recent spouting off about Iraq has served to divert attention from accusations that could sink any future presidential run. Kerry is the target of a lawsuit that accuses him of trying to suppress a documentary that told the truth about his anti-Vietnam War activities.
Kerry, who became famous for saying he voted for an Iraq funding bill before he voted against it, has been lashing out at the Bush administration for its handling of the war in Iraq. In early April he wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times and then appeared on Meet the Press and ABC's This Week. His first message was that if Iraq did not successfully form a government by May 15th, then "we will immediately withdraw our military." If they succeed in forming a government by May 15th, then "we must agree on another deadline: a schedule for withdrawing American combat forces by year's end."
The Bush exit strategy, which does not include an artificial deadline, is that as Iraqi forces stand up, American and Allied forces can step down. The decision to remove our troops will be based on the conditions on the ground, not some arbitrary date.
Kerry, who on NBC's Meet the Press announced that he now supports Sen. Russ Feingold's call for censuring President Bush, said that May 15, which is five months after the December 2005 parliamentary elections in Iraq, should be plenty of time to have formed a unity government. This figure of five months has been repeated over and over in the media to suggest the political parties in Iraq are unable to move forward. But the fact is that at the time Kerry wrote his piece for the Times, and appeared on Meet the Press, it had been less than two months since the results of the election had been finalized, and that was followed shortly thereafter by the bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samara. In the aftermath, both the Sunnis and the Shi'ites have shown great restraint, and a desire to make the process work.
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Despite this progress, Kerry keeps talking about artificial and arbitrary deadlines. Perhaps Kerry is trying to take attention off his current legal and public relations problems, as he weighs his options heading into the 2008 Democratic primaries. He has recently created a controversial defense fund to cover his legal expenses in a defamation lawsuit filed last fall by Carlton Sherwood, former marine, Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist and producer of "Stolen Honor," the film that caused so much controversy just before the presidential election of 2004.
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Sherwood's lawsuit accuses Kerry of being part of a conspiracy to discredit and silence Sherwood and "Stolen Honor" through a campaign of falsehoods. You can learn more about this important case by visiting the website of the Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation.
Accuracy In Media - cont'd |
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