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Audacity of Truth
"Change" You Can Believe In:
"Nixon didn’t try to do that. They couldn't control (the media). They didn’t try. [...] What the hell do they think we are, puppets?"
- Liberal opinion writer Helen Thomas, describing the Obama admin's penchant for heavily scripting public appearances & press conferences - 7/1/09
And this man could have been president
Thank goodness he’s not:
WASHINGTON — Senator John F. Kerry is placing himself at the center of congressional action over the war in Iraq this week with a crisply worded resolution to require President Bush to withdraw almost all US troops by the end of this year.
The measure has exposed Kerry to attacks from Republicans and some Democrats, as critics rushed to tag the plan as a “cut-and-run” strategy. But it also has made him a rallying point for antiwar activists.
The sweeping resolution amounts to the senator’s sharpest condemnation of the war and his broadest repudiation of his own vote to authorize force. It also stands in contrast to his handling of the war issue during his campaign for president two years ago.
“My friends, war is no excuse for its own perpetuation,” Kerry said before a group of cheering liberal activists who had gathered in Washington yesterday for a “Take Back America” conference. “It is essential to acknowledge that the war itself was a mistake — to say the simple words that contain more truth than pride. . . . It was wrong and I was wrong to vote for that Iraqi war resolution.”
Just think for a minute if Kerry were President Kerry, Commander in Chief of the US military, telling them essentially: it’s over. You lost. We shouldn’t be there.
What’s interesting is how the Boston Globe portrayed Kerry’s comments as a ‘change in tone’ from his presidential campaign:
I wrote this in September of 2004 about John Kerry’s attitude towards the Iraq war, specifically on his pessimism:
Yes, we’ve got problems in Iraq and they’re being addressed and will continue to be. However, any President, as a Commander in Chief, must stay resolute and not waver in tough times. While acknowledging there are serious situations in Iraq to be dealt with, this President (along with Allawi) also has appropriately presented to the American people the positive side of what’s happening in Iraq because we need to hear both sides of the story. We generally only get one side of it in the mainstream press. John Kerry has given us his plan for how he’ll handle the situation in Iraq should he be elected President. Fine. But the face he puts on any comments he makes about Iraq is the face of someone who really wishes he’d never voted in favor of the war resolution, and would rather walk on hot glass barefooted than to have to deal with the consequences of it. Our troops, and the Iraqi people and the terrorists they face there, MUST see strength in a Commander in Chief, not pessimism and certainly not weakness. This is not the time for jello spines from our world leaders, in particualar, a US President. Our men and women (alongside the coalition and the people of Iraq who are fighting with us) are in the fights of their lives there right now and the last thing they need is a shaky CIC who regrets voting to send them there in the first place who’ll do little more than the bare minimum required there to get them out, rather than seeing the goal of democracy come to fruition in a place where it would do such good, not only for the people who live there, but for the region, and in fact the world. The sacrifices our troops have made, and continue to make, should not be made in vain for purposes of expediency. The President understands that. In my opinion, John Kerry does not.
I think that holds true even today, nearly two years later. Interestingly enough, he invoked his ‘rightness’ on protesting Vietnam and compared it with protesting the Iraq war today:
In an interview after the speech, Kerry said he has learned from the mistakes of his campaign, including his inability to articulate an easily understood position on the war. Now, drawing on his experience as a Vietnam-veteran-turned-war-critic in the early 1970s, he is making clear that he is a full-throated opponent of the Iraq war.
“It was right to dissent from a war in 1971 that was wrong and could not be won,” Kerry said in his speech. “And now, in 2006, it is both a right and an obligation for Americans to stand up to a president who is wrong today, [and] dissent from policies that are wrong today, and end a war in Iraq that weakens the nation each and every day we are in it.”
Once a war protester, always a war protester. Thank God this man is not the CIC.
Hat tip: Riehl World View
Prior:
- The consequences of losing in Iraq
- The Defeatocrats
- Dems still trying to find unified message on Iraq
- Dem party leaders feel as though they are in weak position
- Joe Klein: How to Stay Out of Power (and undermine the war in the process)
- Pelosi hails Democrats’ ‘diverse’ Iraq stances
- Dems once again fail to find unified message on Iraq
- Winning in spite of defeatist attitudes
- Dems and media determined to ignore Iraq progress
- The undermining of this war
- A powerful reminder of why we must never waver
- MoveOn.org pulls anti-war ad
- Democrats won’t want to hear this but…
- Rep House calls Dem House’s bluff (MINI-LIVEBLOGGING)
- Dem House Representative calls for immediate troop withdrawal
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John Kerry not only should not be President. He should not be a US Senator. In fact, John Kerry should be tried for Treason for his actions after leaving Vietnam and upon conviction, his punishment should be meted out immediately, especially if it is a firing squad.
With every passing day, Kerry demonstrates with exquisite clarity exactly why the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth’s assessment of his character was grossly optimistic and gave him too much benefit of the doubt.
Kerry is, and always has been, an opportunistic, ego driven, hooray with me the hell with anyone else, weak willed, weak minded, panicky traitor. He has an obsession with becoming president that dates back to his college days at least, and he has a penchant for self delusion and fantasy (I still have the hat!). And he was the best the Democrats could come up with? And after all this time, he still thinks he could run again in ‘08, after all the mind numbingly stupid and ham-fisted things he’s done and said since the ‘04 election! Talk about delusional, just based on what he’s said and done recently, his opposition would hand him his head before he could even get into the primaries.
There are plenty of things Bush does that I am not fond of, overspending on non-essential things, way too lax on border enforcement and immigration, a bit too fond of using the FTC for morality enforcement, but damn, just DAMN! Not a day goes by that either Gore (nobody takes me cereal!) and/or Kerry (I have the hat!) does or says something that makes me thank the Gods that neither were ever elected to be CinC/President. That is a nightmarish doomsday scenario that will definitely keep you up at night.
Here’s a little history lesson that proves liberals were wrong and are still wrong and how the MSM’s (Then only three channels) liberal bias lost the War in Vietnam. Let me introduce Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap he was the head man in charge of the North Vietnamese Army.
In his book, Giap clearly indicated that NVA troops were without sufficient supplies, and had been continually defeated time and again.
By 1968, NVA morale was at it’s lowest point ever. The plans for “Tet” ‘68 was their last desperate attempt to achieve a success, in an effort to boost the NVA morale. When it was over, General Giap and the NVA viewed the Tet ‘68 offensive as a failure, they were on their knees and had prepared to negotiate a surrender.
At that time, there were fewer than 10,000 U.S. casualties, the Vietnam War was about to end, as the NVA was prepared to accept their defeat. Then, they heard Walter Cronkite (former CBS News anchor and correspondent) on TV proclaiming the success of the Tet ‘68 offensive by the communist NVA. They were completely and totally amazed at hearing that the US Embassy had been overrun. In reality, The NVA had not gained access to the Embassy–there were some VC who had been killed on the grassy lawn, but they hadn’t gained access. Further reports indicated the riots and protesting on the streets of America.
According to Giap, these distorted reports were inspirational to the NVA. They changed their plans from a negotiated surrender and decided instead, they only needed to persevere for one more hour, day, week, month, eventually the protesters in American would help them to achieve a victory they knew they could not win on the battlefield. Remember, this decision was made at a time when the U.S. casualties were fewer than 10,000, at the end of 1967, beginning of 1968.
Kerry was wrong Hanoi Jane was wrong and the MSM was wrong to spin there reporting of the War in Vietnam to suit there agenda. People like Kerry count on an ignorant public thanks to the Swift Boat Vets that enlightened some of the ignorant and help keep that lying cowardice piece of crap out of the Whitehouse.
Jim – that’s very eye-opening. Where did you find it? I may need it for future use
all in all, NOT a good week for Democrats…
*chuckling*
Yeah Jim, give us a link…
I need to wrap it around a bat and beat some sense into some liberals lol
(joke)
I don’t want to damage the document, so don’t need to wrap it around the bat……
No, no, sanity! You roll it up and shove it up their .. nose! Heheheee!
How sad that our own Surrender Monkeys inhabit the Halls of Power.
Sorry it took so long to get back to you Sis T and Sanity; it’s a pain when work gets in the way of fun. (Snicker snicker) Here’s one link to a News Max article here is another on General Vo Nguyen Giap there are many articles on the subject but the same thing appears in each article it was to break the spirit of the American public thus the loss of support for the War. Here is another on on the Tet Offensive.
Jim M., Severian and PCD did a great job. I have nothing to add.