October 7, 2004

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  Kerry Says Iraq to Become Another Lebanon?

  
  

  Let's have a history lesson

  
  

   

  
  

  During a press conference this afternoon in Colorado, John Kerry said that because of Bush policies in Iraq, he anticipated having to deal with a “Lebanon” if he takes office in January. Lebanon of course has been embroiled in strife for well over 20 years now. Though what Kerry may have failed to mention is that Lebanon’s democratic Christian government collapsed when Israelis pulled out under UN pressure in the 1980’s, leaving only Syrian troops, Syrian- and Iranian-sponsored terrorist groups in charge. The result has been decades of bloodshed, chaos and poverty in what was once a prosperous and developing democracy.

  
  

   

  
  

  "I don’t know what I'm going to find on January 20 the way the president's going”, Kerry told reporters. “If the president just does more of the same every day and it continues to deteriorate, I may be handed Lebanon, figuratively speaking."

  
  

   

  
  

  The irony is that if the US were to follow Kerry’s lead- which is essentially to follow the lead of the UN (i.e. France, Germany, Russia, China and other Oil-For-Fooders), we would be pulling out of Iraq without completing the most fundamental anti-terrorist part of our mission, instead leaving the country in the hands of Syrian and Iranian terrorists invading from all points. That is, essentially another Lebanon.

  
  

   

  
  

  Later in his speech Mr. Kerry argued he would support US generals in whatever decisions they needed to make with regard to troops in Iraq, but in an interview with Chris Matthews just last January 06 of this year, Kerry answered when asked if he was “one of the anti-war candidates” - “I am, yeah.”

  
  

   

  
  

  I don't really think Kerry is a flip-flopper. I think he thinks he is a master of dialectics. Nevertheless I'm sure most thinking people would agree delusions of clever deceit are not the same as flip-flopping even if the latter makes for great airplay. Kerry has always been anti-war, anti-American military (adjectival specification needed), essentially a genuine “carpe diem” anti-American. The only times he has pretended otherwise were when the public was watching and the spin-profit ratio had been diminished significantly such as during the first iteration of the Gulf War back in 1991 (to some extent), 9/11 and of course Mr. Saddam Part deux (to a greater extent). But trying to be a good politician by sounding hawkish isn't even really one of his strong suits. To me, that is far worse than being a confused Senator from Massachusetts whose claim to fame is flip-flopping.

  
  

   

  
  

  Relatively recently in its long history, Lebanon became the hotbed of terrorist activity sponsored by Syria and Iran precisely because the democracies of the world had pulled out when pressured by the agenda-driven UN. What happened next was the result of those Western democracies giving heed to the “global test”.

  
  

   

  
  

  And what about the UN applying any pressure to Syria to leave the region? Well, it’s been 20-plus years and counting, and we're still waiting. Yet, Spaceman-Spiff Kerry thinks that, by reason, this is not the fault of the terrorists who maim and kill and tear things up. Rather, Senator Kerry seems to say a strong, long-term stabilizing presence by the Free World creates Lebanons, not the retreat of such democracies or their failure to show up altogether.

  
  

   

  
  

  If this is a war on terrorism, it would certainly seem judging by the participating players that Iraq is one of the places to be, Mr. Kerry.

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

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  Kerry Quotarama

  
  

   

  
  

  Related Humor courtesy of CadetHappy.com:

  
  

  Please check out this blog. He has many, many more where this came from

  
  

   

  
  

  

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  UPDATE:

  
  

   

  
  

  John Kerry in a replayed interview from late 2003 on Sean Hannity's syndicated radio broadcast was rebroadcast tonight on Hannity & Colmes criticized then Democrat front-runner Howard the Dean for flip-flopping.

  
  

   

  
  

  SH: You probably would be closer to the president’s position than Howard dean…

  
  

   

  
  

  JK: Extraordinarily enough, Howard dean could not even bring himself to say we were better off without Saddam Hussein- I find that quite incredible.

  
  

   

  
  

  SH: Why don’t you think you are doing better. You’re from Massachusetts, you’ve always done very well…why do you think you’re not doing better in the polls in NH…?

  
  

   

  
  

  JK: Because I think the war was very confusing and very difficult for a lot of people. It was a very divisive issue for our party. And I think that uh made it very difficult.

  
  

   

  
  

  SH: Do you think he’s gone just too far to the left is that the reason?

  
  

   

  
  

  JK: I think his positions are unclear. I mean uh you know you can’t have multiple positions on Iraq and on the war.

  
  

   

  
  

  JK: At the time that we voted, Howard Dean said that he supported a resolution that gave authority to go to war. He also said that there were weapons of mass destruction, and he said that uh that Saddam ought to be disarmed. And then a few months later he had a totally different position. If you’re gonna be president of the United States you have to have a clear position and you have to lead. I believe my position is clear and I led and I think it is the right position which is to disarm and stand up to Saddam Hussein but to do it the right way.

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  Thank you, Senator Kettle.

  
  

   

  
  

  Note by the way, his admission of the Democrat party's strong anti-war leanings. Those leanings, I'm sure would have no influence on the nomination of a war-time presidential candidate.

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  

  
  

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