Kerry: Bush Stifling Dissent
Speaking in Boston's Faneuil Hall this morning,
John Kerry said that President Bush is stifling dissent to his policies
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What's more disgusting is that his wife actually called the President un-American and used foul language to talk about him. In fact, Kerry himself was heard calling President Bush an idiot by a Newsweek reporter. Kerry said "How can I be losing to this idiot?" And now he's upset that the President isn't taking it? Give me a break.
In Vietnam, LBJ was talking to pilots who were on missions to pull off their planned targets of destroying supply lines to hit symbolic targets. Bush has given his generals full control to adjust to changing conditions on the fly.
As for Kerry's comment about casualties, it might be wise for Kerry to notice that our casualties have been dropping dramatically since the first of the year. But why let pertinent facts get in the way of a good diatribe, right?
This is the same John Kerry that voted against the first Gulf War, then touted it as the model of how a coalition should be built when this President Bush was preparing to go to war.
In short, Kerry's bloviations are boring, bombastic and BS. He's a legend in his own mind. And a national disgrace.
UPDATE: The AP's article has now changed. It now includes this rant:
The other statement that the President has made decisions that were negligent and incompent implies that President Bush didn't consult the in-theater generals and were obvious mistakes at the time that the decisions were made. Anyone that believes that any president would make such decisions isn't credible.
Cross-posted at California Conservative
Posted Saturday, April 22, 2006 6:00 PM
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Invoking bitter memories of the public tumult over the Vietnam War three decades ago, Sen. John Kerry is accusing the Bush administration of stifling dissent about its failed Iraq policies by branding critics as unpatriotic. "The spirit of intolerance for dissent has risen steadily, and the habit of labeling dissenters as unpatriotic has become the common currency of the politicians currently running our country," Kerry, (D-MA), said in remarks prepared for delivery Saturday at Boston's Faneuil Hall.When have you heard President Bush, or any administration official, say that anyone is unpatriotic? Kerry's paranoia about that label has him seeing things that aren't there and hearing things that haven't been said. If we went by Kerry's rules, the President wouldn't be able to defend himself against the idiotic rantings of Joe Wilson, John Murtha and Nancy Pelosi.
What's more disgusting is that his wife actually called the President un-American and used foul language to talk about him. In fact, Kerry himself was heard calling President Bush an idiot by a Newsweek reporter. Kerry said "How can I be losing to this idiot?" And now he's upset that the President isn't taking it? Give me a break.
Kerry's remarks came exactly 35 years after he posed a haunting question during a speech before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as a young anti-war Vietnam veteran wearing military fatigues. "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" Kerry said in 1971.That's typical Kerry. He's living in the past. The contrasts between Vietnam and Iraq are stark and obvious. LBJ didn't care about winning the war. Nobody is stupid enough to think that Bush doesn't want to win in Iraq.
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"As in Vietnam, we have stayed and fought and died even though it is time for us to go," he said. "A majority of our casualties in Vietnam occurred after Richard Nixon had given up on victory. That must not happen in Iraq."
In Vietnam, LBJ was talking to pilots who were on missions to pull off their planned targets of destroying supply lines to hit symbolic targets. Bush has given his generals full control to adjust to changing conditions on the fly.
As for Kerry's comment about casualties, it might be wise for Kerry to notice that our casualties have been dropping dramatically since the first of the year. But why let pertinent facts get in the way of a good diatribe, right?
Kerry had hoped his military background would be a pillar of his 2004 presidential bid.A few short months in Vietnam can't erase a political career marked by pacifism. Kerry's undoing was his being on the wrong side of history over the past 20+ years. Those of us old enough remember Kerry decrying the positioning of Pershing II missiles in Europe, saying that that would only lead to further escalation of the Cold War. The Cold War ended when the Soviet Union collapsed 7 years later.
This is the same John Kerry that voted against the first Gulf War, then touted it as the model of how a coalition should be built when this President Bush was preparing to go to war.
In short, Kerry's bloviations are boring, bombastic and BS. He's a legend in his own mind. And a national disgrace.
UPDATE: The AP's article has now changed. It now includes this rant:
"I have come here today to reaffirm that it was right to dissent in 1971 from a war that was wrong. And to affirm that it is both a right and an obligation for Americans today to disagree with a president who is wrong, a policy that is wrong, and a war in Iraq that weakens the nation," Kerry said to a standing ovation Saturday at Boston's historic Faneuil Hall.and this allegation:
"Lives have been lost to bad decisions," Kerry said. "Not decisions that could have gone either way, but decisions that constitute basic negligence and incompetence. And lives continue to be lost because of stubbornness and pride."The old blowhard doesn't bother telling us how the policy is wrong, though I suspect that he'd say that it's taken too long and we don't have the world's support.
The other statement that the President has made decisions that were negligent and incompent implies that President Bush didn't consult the in-theater generals and were obvious mistakes at the time that the decisions were made. Anyone that believes that any president would make such decisions isn't credible.
Cross-posted at California Conservative
Posted Saturday, April 22, 2006 6:00 PM
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