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kate
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 Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 4:05 am Post subject: Kerry called timetable "cut and run" in 2003 |
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A blast from the past, but so pertinent based on Kerry's current blatherings
hat-tip for the excellent find to Tim Chapman --
Kerry called timetable 'cut and run' in 2003
June 22, 2006 @ WorldNetDaily.com
his commentary links to this speech...
Council on Foreign Relations
Making America Secure Again: Setting the Right Course for Foreign Policy
Speech by John F. Kerry
December 3, 2003
Council on Foreign Relations
<just a lil snip, more at the link>
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I have said before -- and I repeat today -- that the Bush administration should swallow its pride and reverse course. But the evidence is obviously strong that it lacks the wisdom or will to do so.
In fact, I fear that in the run-up to the 2004 election, the administration is considering what is tantamount to a cut-and-run strategy. Their sudden embrace of accelerated Iraqification and American troop withdrawal dates, without adequate stability, is an invitation to failure. The hard work of rebuilding Iraq must not be dictated by the schedule of the next American election.
I have called for the administration to transfer sovereignty, and they must transfer it to the Iraqi people as quickly as circumstances permit. But it would be a disaster and a disgraceful betrayal of principle to speed up the process simply to lay the groundwork for a politically expedient withdrawal of American troops. That could risk the hijacking of Iraq by terrorist groups and former Ba'athists. Security and political stability cannot be divorced. Security must come first, and that is why it is so imperative to succeed in building a genuine coalition on the ground in Iraq.
An international effort in Iraq is indispensable, but it is only the start of the new era of alliances in which the United States must lead and re-engage the world.
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fast forward to the 2006 elections,
say what JsKerry?
Read your lips....
"The hard work of rebuilding Iraq must not be dictated by the schedule of the next American election"
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NortonPete
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| Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 1:03 pm Post subject: |
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From www.powerlineblog.com
| Quote: | The Last 300 Men to Die For a Mistake?
My friend Bob Cunningham makes an excellent point about the utter incoherence of the Kerry/Kennedy/Boxer cut-and-run proposal:
The line that made John Kerry famous, said in connection with the Vietnam War, was: "How can you ask a man to be the last one to die for a mistake?"
It is, of course, the reason he was not able to say that his Iraq War Resolution vote was a mistake during the 2004 campaign --- because then he'd be hoist on his own petard and have to have called for withdrawal....
But he's not off the hook now...his proposal(s) call for withdrawal...but not for 6 months or a year!...How many U.S. deaths will there be between now and his deadlines(s)?...several hundred based on recent history....this is the very basis for his proposal(s) in the first place!!...so what is really saying? ....... ISN'T HE ASKING THEM ALL TO DIE FOR ---- WHAT HE SAYS!! ---- IS A MISTAKE??!!!
Or maybe he just wants them all to stay in barracks pending "redeployment"?....in that case...why bother with the 6 month - 12 month deadline?
So it's either incoherent --- just further exposure of the utter fecklessness of the left --- or else it is fundamentally dishonest and in a way that is particularly apposite for John Kerry...
Or both. Kerry and his confederates changed the withdrawal deadline from the end of 2006 to July 2007. Presumably this means that more American servicemen would be killed in combat. What was the rationale for the change? What will be accomplished by July 2007 that couldn't be accomplished by December 2006? But if something is being accomplished, why are we withdrawing? If nothing is being accomplished, why not get out now?
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Me#1You#10
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| Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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...and this reaction from (cough cough) "The Republican"? The Freudian typo is delicious... (emphasis mine)
| Quote: | Are swift boat veterans revving their engines?
Friday, June 23, 2006
John Kerry was for the war in Iraq before he was against it.
The Massachusetts Democrat, who was branded by his political opponents as a serial flip-flopper in his run for the White House in 2004, has many in his own party now wondering if he learned anything at all during that failed campaign.
Kerry introduced a proposal in the Senate that would have imposed a deadline for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq. And his opponents are saying over and over again in response that he wants to "cut and run." They are also able to point out that Kerry is once again changing course, noting that he voted to authorize the president to wage war against Iraq.
To understand the Democratic Party's position on Kerry's amendment - which was defeated 86-13 yesterday - one need know nothing more than one simple fact: Party leaders set up the schedule so that debate on the matter would not make the TV network evening newscasts.
That's not exactly a ringing endorsement.
For good reason, too.
We opposed the invasion of Iraq, and we have repeatedly argued in this space for a real plan for getting our troops out of there. But what is needed is an honest discussion of how the troops can come home, not the platitudes offered by the president - our forces will stand down when the Iraqis stand up - nor a completely artificial deadline as proposed by Kerry. Should our forces leave Iraq in 12 months? In 18 months?
We'll admit that we don't know the answer. And we are fairly certain that Kerry doesn't, either.
What the junior senator from the Bay State is doing more than anything else is making trouble for congressional Democrats who will be on the ballot in less than five months.
Republicans and their allied groups will again paint Kerry as unable to take a position and stick to it. And they'll paint him as soft on terror. Then they'll try to smear every Democrat standing for re-election with those same charges.
It won't matter if the charges are true. (ed.   ) What will matter is that they may be believed by much of the citizenry, made real by their repetition. (ed. you mean like "already discredited Swift Boat Veterans"?)
We'd like to think that Kerry remembers the tactics employed by his opponents in the 2004 campaign. But he must not, because he's setting his fellow Democrats up to expect the very same treatment.
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Nah, they're not political. It's about the troops! THE TROOPS! 
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