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2005-01-06 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Yosemite Sam 2005-01-06 12:04:01 PM|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Damn... and I was just getting used to not hearing his name or his voice, or having his existence called to mind. I guess it was too much to hope that he would sink back into well-deserved obscurity.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2005-01-06 12:19:40 PM|| [http://www.sgtstryker.com] 2005-01-06 12:19:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Ata boy. Get the troops demoralized. Then the press will pick up on it, then the people here will hear it and push to have the troops brought back, so that what they did is for nothing.
Then we can have that Vietnam he kept saying we were going to have. He dose'nt care about the soldiers. Just making everyone else look wrong.
At least this time, the soldiers, know he lyed last time, which means he will do it again, to get his way.

Posted by plainslow 2005-01-06 12:26:54 PM|| 2005-01-06 12:26:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Few troops will be demoralized by this lizard's laments. But domesticly, it is another demonstration that the Democrats are dysfunctional. Babs Boxer's ballot showboating and the Gonzales hearings are further demonstrations that the Democrats are simply not to be taken seriously.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-01-06 12:33:07 PM|| 2005-01-06 12:33:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm trying to understand what is so unique and egregious about these "horrendous judgments" and "unbelievable blunders" that I should even pay attention to what this idiot and his enablers say, much less work myself into an indignant fit at the administration and/or military personnel who allegedly screwed up.

Would some kind and indulgent Democratic partisan please help me out here by citing oh, say, a dozen or so examples of wars in which "horrendous judgments" and "unbelievable blunders" were **NOT** committed, wars which show how everything can and should go "right" in battle? Any wars will do: ours or somebody else's, ancient or modern, doesn't matter.

Yeah, mistakes were made. Things didn't go according to plan. So what?

Churchill (I think it was him) once said something to the effect that "War is a series of catastrophes leading to victory." Kerry and his Democrats ought to stop pretending otherwise.

Posted by Dave D. 2005-01-06 12:39:17 PM|| 2005-01-06 12:39:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Dave D - The Dems can't; their series of catastrophes has led to defeat. :-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2005-01-06 12:49:02 PM|| 2005-01-06 12:49:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Not to worry you will hear less and less of the Junior Senator from Mass. He will return to his quiet position in Teddy's shadow. The Dems are pretty quick to cast off their loosers and thus he will never get another shot a running for Pres., again.

Posted by TomAnon 2005-01-06 12:50:02 PM|| 2005-01-06 12:50:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Actually, he is in Baghdad. He ran like hell from Vietnam before he was Fragged (and he left wounded sailors behind). This time...who knows.

Posted by leaddog2 2005-01-06 1:07:08 PM|| 2005-01-06 1:07:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I only hope he made this in the presence of the troops. That way it will be especially damning. The Dems are still trying to play to some poll number, never mind we had the most important poll and they lost.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2005-01-06 1:22:59 PM|| 2005-01-06 1:22:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 I think it's a bad sign for Kerry that this upsets me about as much as my two year old nephew stamping his foot and saying, MINE!

Want some more sour grapes with that, Sen. Hasbeen?

Posted by 2b 2005-01-06 1:32:05 PM|| 2005-01-06 1:32:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 I dunno Mrs Davis....too many Dems see defeat as their best, quickest path back to power, and too many are acting on this belief. They are a party morphed into a 5th column and are therefore very dangerous.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2005-01-06 1:52:00 PM|| 2005-01-06 1:52:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 I like that "a party morphed into a fifth column", but if they can't win elections in any great numbers, I fail to see the danger.

And if they can win elections with this idiocy, I'm inclined to think we deserve the results.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-01-06 1:55:36 PM|| 2005-01-06 1:55:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Correct they don't win...haven't been, hence their 'morphing', they don't have a choice. They're rotting this country from within, destroying our institutions that sustain us. Look at our courts and our schools. They've already done enormous damage.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2005-01-06 2:16:02 PM|| 2005-01-06 2:16:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Why didn't he go before the election?

Posted by Seafarious 2005-01-06 2:21:09 PM|| 2005-01-06 2:21:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Just wondering if he was in combat gear. He would look great. Hey did you ever notice the likeness of the NE Patriots logo on their helmet resembles the Senator. Hilarious. Boy SC football, If you watched did you, like me, want to rip the heart out of that halftime show and shove it down somebodies throat. It got booed and then the crowed walked.

Posted by Lucky 2005-01-06 2:52:52 PM|| 2005-01-06 2:52:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Now, folks.

Kerry is just trying to help an armed enemy of the United States, a habit he picked up back in the early 70s.

John Kerry, like most liberals, love dead Americans and live enemies of the USA, and if they can scare enough folks, they can inflict a defeat on the USA.

All in the name of that mental disease called humanitarianism.

Posted by badanov 2005-01-06 2:59:38 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2005-01-06 2:59:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Kerry: same old same old. A traitor in the 70s, a traitor in 2005.

Posted by John Q. 2005-01-06 3:03:57 PM|| 2005-01-06 3:03:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Revenge is Luckys! Congrats! And yes the olde three point stance Patriot did look like Kerry.

Posted by Shipman 2005-01-06 3:47:17 PM|| 2005-01-06 3:47:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 And yes Theda Bara is smiling somewhere.

Posted by Shipman 2005-01-06 3:50:06 PM|| 2005-01-06 3:50:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Dang, I mean Clara Bow of course....fooey.

Posted by Shipman 2005-01-06 3:51:52 PM|| 2005-01-06 3:51:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 I wonder if Captain Nuance took this opportunity to explain to our senior commanders in Baghdad his "plan" for Iraq -- you know, the one he kept referring to before the election and that we haven't heard a thing about since. Let's check the milblogs for any reports about American officers rolling on the floor in convulsive laughter.

Posted by Matt 2005-01-06 4:00:00 PM|| 2005-01-06 4:00:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Does he have the Super 8 with him? Potential Purple Heart territory over there. Might need it for 2008, which he's already making noise about.

Posted by tu3031 2005-01-06 4:04:56 PM|| 2005-01-06 4:04:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 Matt, I'd prefer Lieutenant Nuance, he doesn't rate to be called Captain, Marine or Navy.

Posted by Jarhead 2005-01-06 4:17:41 PM|| 2005-01-06 4:17:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 JH, you're absolutely right.

Posted by Matt 2005-01-06 4:31:25 PM|| 2005-01-06 4:31:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 Y'know, I used to read Livy or Thucydides and come across stories of some Senator or Assembly member who was sympathetic to the Carthagineans or the Spartans and just chalk it up to a politics in a less enlightened age. Thank you John Kerry for helping me understand an ancient phenomena in a modern context.

Posted by 11A5S 2005-01-06 4:52:03 PM|| 2005-01-06 4:52:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 Persona non grata

Posted by Captain America 2005-01-06 7:11:29 PM|| 2005-01-06 7:11:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 jeez! like our troops need another plastic turkey?

I know...it wasn't plastic...save your FYI's :-)

Posted by Frank G 2005-01-06 7:18:06 PM|| 2005-01-06 7:18:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#27 John Who? Is he a politician or something?

Posted by AJackson 2005-01-06 7:25:36 PM|| 2005-01-06 7:25:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#28 Gore Redux?

Posted by john 2005-01-06 8:11:59 PM|| 2005-01-06 8:11:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#29 11A5S...I bow to your superior intellect.

Posted by 2b 2005-01-06 8:17:37 PM|| 2005-01-06 8:17:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#30 Do we have to let him back ito the country? Do we have to let him leave Iraq? Willhe get driven past a IED before he leaves? There are so many wonderful things trhat can happen in a war zone. How come they can't happen to this turd?

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