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kate
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 Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 8:28 am Post subject: Kerry: I'd have us in a 'different place' |
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Kerry: I'd have us in a 'different place'
Senator speaks on prewar intelligence, timetables, election plans
| Quote: | Thursday, November 17, 2005;
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A top House Democrat called for a swift U.S. withdrawal from Iraq on Thursday amid a White House counteroffensive against allegations that the Bush administration misled the country over prewar intelligence.
CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer spoke with Sen. John Kerry -- the Massachusetts Democrat who lost to President Bush in last year's election -- beginning by asking about the president recently quoting Kerry's prewar comments on Saddam Hussein.
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long interview blah blah blah Kerry says he'd vote differently if he knew now what he knew then, tries to cover his tail about the vote for the war, no-one saw the same intelligence president did etc etc
his timetable plans, sound suspiciously like the same things I've heard from Rummy how original
here's the part of the interview of his sugar plum dreams of the presidency
| Quote: | BLITZER: A year since you were defeated, do you wake up every day and relive some of the campaign, what you could have done? ...
KERRY: No, I don't relive that. I'll tell you what I obviously think about is, the different choices that I would be making today, and the difference I think there could be for the country on a number of issues.
Look at what they're doing on energy independence: more dependency on oil, not moving America to be energy independent. That affects our security and our foreign policy. We can do better than that.
Look at what we're doing on health care: Americans are just crunched under the costs of health care, more and more people losing it. They have no plan at all. ...
I had a plan, and I think about what we could be doing to make life better for Americans in health care.
Obviously in Iraq, I know we could be doing a better job of bringing countries to the table and we could, I think, save lives and restore America's honor and strength in the world. ...
BLITZER: But do you ever think, if only I had responded better to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign against you? Do you go back and think about some of those kinds of things?
KERRY: Look, inevitably, you think about some of the mistakes we might have made or not made, but I'm not dwelling on them. I mean, I know what they are. And you got to go forward. Americans don't want to hear about the past. They want to know what we're going to do to make lives better for people today.
And I think there are a lot of things we can do to do better for Americans.
BLITZER: What about 2008 -- do you want to run for president again?
KERRY: It is honestly too early to tell. ... Would I like to be president? Yes, obviously. I ran for the job. I think I would have made a good president for America, a strong president. I would have had us in a very different place than we are today.
But that's in the past. Now my job is to help us provide alternatives for the country ... in 2006. And that is what I am really focused on, is helping senators, helping congressmen, helping mayors -- I was out campaigning -- helping governors. I was campaigning in New Jersey, helping Tim Kaine in Virginia.
We need to do all we can to make 2006 the choice that I think people really want to make and need to make in light of what's happening in our country. And then we'll see where we are.
BLITZER: Do you think you can beat Hillary Clinton in a Democratic primary?
KERRY: Well, I don't know if Hillary's running. Who knows who's running, not running? I'm not running yet. We need to see where we're at.
I'll tell you this: If I decide to run and I get into the race -- and it won't depend on who else is running. ... If I get in that race, having learned what I've learned, and the experience I had last year, I think I know how to do what I need to do and I will run to win. ....
BLITZER: When will you make that decision?
KERRY: Oh, some time after next year's elections, when we've all had a chance to let the dust settle a little and see where we are. |
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LewWaters
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| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 8:44 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | But do you ever think, if only I had responded better to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign against you? |
Hey Kerry, we are still waiting for you to fully disclose your full Military Record. Want to respond to the Swiftees charges? Just open your files and prove them wrong, if you can.  |
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kimberly
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| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 9:47 am Post subject: |
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| LewWaters wrote: | | Quote: | | But do you ever think, if only I had responded better to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign against you? |
Hey Kerry, we are still waiting for you to fully disclose your full Military Record. Want to respond to the Swiftees charges? Just open your files and prove them wrong, if you can. |
I could hardly bare to watch that show, I had to switch channels half way through....the things he says, it sounded as if he was 'making it up as he went along' trying to put the old bs into the context of all that's happening today. I'm assuming that should he try to run again, SBVT/PowMia's would jump into action, but given the newly revived anti-war climate (and what sounds to me like anti-military), would 'joe public' listen to the Veterans a second time around? I can't tell you how often I still hear that the SBVT were liars and it is said off the cuff as if it is a recognized fact. It makes me sick. |
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fortdixlover
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Kerry is already in a "different place."
It's known alternately as "Alice's Wonderland" or "Cloud Cuckoo Land."
-- FDL
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GM Strong
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Hey, Lurch, go to France. That is a different place and they need you there. Besides, you speak the language. Take a few of your lib buddies with you. You can't screw it up any worse than it is.
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Deuce
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| Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 3:02 pm Post subject: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi United States Senate |
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| fortdixlover wrote: | Kerry is already in a "different place."
It's known alternately as "Alice's Wonderland" or "Cloud Cuckoo Land."
-- FDL |
Ft.Dix...
Methinks that Mark Steyn agrees with your take...see his "Abu Musab al-Zarqawi United States Senate" article on the subject here:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn20.html
always a good read, looks like our RINOs and Socialist Senators all have closed ranks around their 'Band of Brothers' McQueeg and sKerry! Noting that there are only about 13 Honorable Senators left in the sandbox to hold back "the formal handover of the Great Satan's cojones"! 
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