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Kerry: Allawi doesn't know what he's talking about
Edited for brevity. Hat tip: DrudgeDemocratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Thursday that Iraq's Ayad Allawi was sent before Congress to put the ``best face'' on Bush administration policy. Shortly after Allawi, the interim government's prime minister, gave a rosy portrayal of progress toward peace in Iraq, Kerry said the assessment contradicted reality on the ground. ``The prime minister and the president are here obviously to put their best face on the policy, but the fact is that the CIA estimates, the reporting, the ground operations and the troops all tell a different story,'' Kerry said. Factually correct--the MSM reporters do tell a completely different story from the CIA, ground ops, and troops. I also must ask: the last time you attended a security briefing was how many years ago? Allawi told a joint meeting of Congress that democratic elections will take place in Iraq in January as scheduled, but Kerry said that was unrealistic. ``The United States and the Iraqis have retreated from whole areas of Iraq,'' Kerry told reporters outside a Columbus firehouse. ``There are no-go zones in Iraq today. You can't hold an election in a no-go zone.'' Kerry's remarks come one day after he told The Associated Press that President Bush's statement that a ``handful'' of people are willing to kill to stop progress in Iraq was a blunder that showed he was avoiding reality. Um, even the cops in most major cities have areas they won't go. The strategy here is to let the disaffected or apathetic Iraqi people experience life under the terrorists and, when they do, watch them BEG for Coalition troops to come in and restore order. If there were more than a handful of terrorists fighting the Coalition in this country of nearly 25 million people, we would have HUNDREDS of casualties EVERY DAY. That's reality. ``George Bush let Osama bin Laden escape at Tora Bora,'' Kerry said in a brief interview Wednesday. ``George Bush retreated from Fallujah and other communities in Iraq which are now overrun with terrorists and threaten our troops. And George Bush said on the record we can't win the war on terror. And even today, he blundered again saying there are only a handful of terrorists in Iraq,'' Kerry said. ``I think he's living in a make believe world.'' This coming from an expert on make-believe worlds where Purple Hearts grow on trees.
Posted by: Dar 2004-09-23 |
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