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Home Front: Politix
Kerry knocks Bush on handling of Mideast conflict
2006-07-24
Via Drudge.
U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D- Mass., who was in town Sunday to help Gov. Jennifer Granholm campaign for her re-election bid, took time to take a jab at the Bush administration for its lack of leadership in the Israeli-Lebanon conflict. "If I was president, this wouldn't have happened," said Kerry during a noon stop at Honest John's bar and grill in Detroit's Cass Corridor.
Yeah, sure, you'd have gone to the U.N. or something. Loser.
Bush has been so concentrated on the war in Iraq that other Middle East tension arose as a result, he said. "The president has been so absent on diplomacy when it comes to issues affecting the Middle East," Kerry said. "We're going to have a lot of ground to make up (in 2008) because of it."
If you'd been paying attention instead of trying to get your allowance up'ped from Tay-ray-sa, you'd know that the Hezbies are strangely resistant to diplomacy. You think Iran and Syria would be impressed with our resolve if you as Prez would have pulled us out of Iraq? You think the Hezbies would have been shaking in their shoes after you'd gone to the U.N. begging for help in an 'international resolution' to Iraq?
Hezbollah guerillas should have been targeted with other terrorist organizations, such as al-Qaida and the Taliban, which operate in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Kerry said. However, Bush, has focused military strength on Iraq.
You'd have been for it and then against it. Targeting Hezbollah at the same time as the Taliban would have meant two invasions -- Afghanistan and Lebanon -- at the same time. Is that what you're advocating? I can't tell because you aren't making sense. Targeting Hezbollah at the same time as al-Qaeda would have been particularly stupid as it would have driven them together in 2002. You work to defeat your enemies in isolation and in detail. Didn't you learn that in the Navy?
"This is about American security and Bush has failed. He has made it so much worse because of his lack of reality in going into Iraq.Â…We have to destroy Hezbollah," he said.
Just like in 1998 when you said we had to destroy Saddam. Loser. This is what happens when you lack a brain, a heart and a spine.
Posted by:Steve White

#19   "If I was president, this wouldn't have happened,"

So true. He would have pulled a Clintonesque NKor type deal with the mullahs and they wouldn't have told the hezbollah to do their thing.
Posted by: Flish Uleregum9913   2006-07-24 20:04  

#18  #17 - She thinks you're a expensive piece of ass.

Maybe too expensive....
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2006-07-24 13:56  

#17  Ha, you think I'm bad ?
How do you explain Terrasa ? She thinks I'm smart and sofisticated. LOL
Posted by: John Fn Kerry   2006-07-24 13:10  

#16  This guy(Kerry) has more political lives than a cat. He is also a legend in his own mind. I wouldn't be surprised if the demos ran Kerry or Gore again. They just can't abandon their left wing whacko base. On the other hand, that is not all bad.
Posted by: JohnQC   2006-07-24 12:04  

#15  Isn't he politically dead yet?
Posted by: DarthVader   2006-07-24 11:19  

#14  Such a piece of s**t. I cannot believe you almost made this Imbecile president.
Posted by: newc   2006-07-24 11:09  

#13  Yammerhead. Ignore.
Posted by: mojo   2006-07-24 10:46  

#12  "If I was president, this wouldn't have happened." I hate to agree with Kerry but on this point he may be right. If Kerry were President, Hezbollah would be extremely powerful (kowtowing to Iran) and they would have open imported better weapons to destroy Israel long before two weeks ago. He most certainly would have supported Hamas and that would have left a weak Israel with two powerful opponents, Israelis would have little choice but to submit or flee. Yes, I would have to agree this would not have happened on President John F. KerryÂ’s watch.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2006-07-24 10:21  

#11  So what's the plan, Jawn? You know, the PLAN? You got a plan, right?
Posted by: tu3031   2006-07-24 10:08  

#10  "The president has been so absent on diplomacy when it comes to issues affecting the Middle East."

Kerry can steal his rhetorical chops from Paris Hilton, but he'll never match her on intelligence.
Posted by: KBK   2006-07-24 10:05  

#9  Yeah, and if you asked Kerry what he would do different he would say nothing, only that he would do it better.
Posted by: Broadhead6   2006-07-24 09:17  

#8  Does Kerry have doodoo for brains
YES!!! He and the other FAT BASTARD need to roll over and DIE!!!!
Posted by: ARMYGUY   2006-07-24 08:29  

#7  Hezbollah guerillas should have been targeted with other terrorist organizations, such as al-Qaida and the Taliban, which operate in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Kerry said. Does Kerry have doodoo for brains [or a brain at all]? He must think A-Q and the Talis are our friends. What the hell planet is he from.
Posted by: JohnQC   2006-07-24 08:15  

#6  Y'all missed the point, here.

Hezbollah guerillas should have been targeted with other terrorist organizations, such as al-Qaida and the Taliban

Kerry means if he were president, he would have somehow turned al-Qaida and the Taliban against Hezbolla, see? Then all of our enemies would've self-destructed.
Posted by: Bobby   2006-07-24 06:56  

#5  I would do it better ... and smarter ... and better ... and uh ... better!
Posted by: John Kerry   2006-07-24 02:34  

#4  Well, at least he's not comparing it to Vietnam. Yet.
Posted by: Swamp Blondie   2006-07-24 01:58  

#3  This is what happens when you lack a brain, a heart and a spine.

Ha! The Doctor has made his diagnosis.
2nd opinion: You're ugly too.
Posted by: ed   2006-07-24 01:09  

#2  Kennedy blew his brain fart the other day, so the Junior Senator from Masshole had to throw in his echo to make it a duet. Didn't Dean hit this meme, too, recently? Expect similar brain farts soon from the usual clueless "Return To Clintoonian Camelot!" assholes.

Donk 2006 campaign strategy: Throw mindless BDS meme shit out into the wind to see what sells and gets picked up by the MSM. Same as 2004, in other words. Same effect, I hope.
Posted by: Champ Angeger5024   2006-07-24 00:43  

#1  Well, I guess Bush must be doing it right then, if Kerry thinks it's wrong.
Posted by: Glenmore   2006-07-24 00:31  

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