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| Kerry praises al-Sadr as "a legitimate voice" |
| 2004-04-07 |
| NewsMax; EFL. Hat tip: LGF. At first I thought this was an especially poor-taste attempt at a ScrappleFace posting, but it’s for-real. In an interview broadcast Wednesday morning, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry defended terrorist Shiite imam Moqtada al-Sadr as a "legitimate voice" in Iraq, despite that fact that he’s led an uprising that has killed nearly 20 American GIs in the last two days. Speaking of al-Sadr’s newspaper, which was shut down by coalition forces last week after it urged violence against U.S. troops, Kerry complained to National Public Radio, "They shut [down] a newspaper that belongs to a legitimate voice in Iraq." This has to be one of the most monumentally stupid things ever said by a major party candidate for national office. Does Kerry realize how bad this sounds? In the next breath, however, the White House hopeful caught himself and quickly changed direction, adding, "Well, let me ... change the term ’legitimate.’ It belongs to a voice — because he has clearly taken on a far more radical tone in recent days and aligned himself with both Hamas and Hezbollah, which is a sort of terrorist alignment." Guess he realized. But Kerry again seemed to voice sympathy for the Shiite terrorist when asked whether he supported al-Sadr’s arrest. "Not if it’s an isolated act without the other kinds of steps necessary to change the dynamics on the ground in Iraq," Kerry told NPR, in quotes first reported by the New York Sun. "If we can’t completely transform Iraq in 72 hours, with a 100% guarantee of success, we should let him go." Unbelievable. I hope the RNC has the audio tape. The negative ad potential here is simply staggering. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #27 I don't think the statement in itself is the last nail in the coffin, but the following questions need to be asked at the earliest opportunity: 1. Do you that Gasser Arafat controls the actions of the AMB? 2. Do you consider Ham-ass and Hezz to be terrorist entities? 3. If elected, which groups would you remove or add to the list of terrorist entities? 4. ME countries and the EU consistently calls for America to be more even-handed with respect to the Palestinians. How would you change our policy toward Israel to being it more in line with the policies of our European allies? 5. If Saudi Arabia offered to increase oil production rates, would you be willing to reestablish payments to the PLA? 6. If not, which policies would you be willing to change to encourage OPEC to increase production levels? 7. We also import a significant amount of oil from Venezuela, whose president has asked the US to be more even-handed towards his government with respect to the opposition that is seeking to recall him from office. How would you change policy to maintain the flow of oil to his country? 8. How do you intend to resolve the crisis in Korea? 9. What is your timetable for bringing our troops from South Korea, Bosnia, Germany and Iraq? 10. Would you have intervened in Haiti sooner to keep the democratically elected Aristide in power? 11. Do you consider his ouster to be an American coup? 12. Would you have intervened in Liberia sooner to keep Charles Taylor in power? 13. Do you intend to intervene in Zimbabwe should a coup attempt to oust Mugabe? 13. If the MDU, a party who many consider to be the democratically elected to run Zimbabwe, were to take over Zimbabwe violently, would you consider that to be a coup? 14. Would you intervene in Zimbabwe to keep Mugabe in power? 15. Would you support South African intervention in Zimbabwe to keep Mugabe in power? 16. Would you have handled the genocide in Rwanda differently as president? 17. Under what circumstances would you intervene in a Rwanda-like situation? 18. What is your opinion of the allegations that the UN Oil-For-Food Program was..... I guess NPR wasn't up to the challenge. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-04-07 11:15:15 PM |
| #26 I can his next campaign speech: "I actually spoke out for Al Sadr before I spoke out against him." |
| Posted by: Jackal 2004-04-07 6:50:52 PM |
| #25 Hugh Hewitt is all over this story. |
| Posted by: Mike 2004-04-07 6:31:49 PM |
| #24 So Kerry feels that killing / bombing your rival is a legitimate practice does he? Does the U.S. Secret Service (charged with protecting the president and canidates) know this? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-04-07 5:55:02 PM |
| #23 Korora: Thanks to you, I now have a vision of John F. Kerry as "Gollum." Yessss, my Preciousss, nassty Republicanses, we hates them, we hates them forever! |
| Posted by: Mike 2004-04-07 5:49:18 PM |
| #22 LOL Korora! Barb: Yeah, but what I really think about John "F-himself" Kerry, I don't think I could print, so I'm sticking with "amoral, diabolical traitor"--at least for the time being . . . |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2004-04-07 5:37:20 PM |
| #21 Korora - LOL! Sweet analogy! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-04-07 5:21:15 PM |
| #20 In Kerry's mind… Good Kerry: We mustn't be so reactionary. Bad Kerry: We wants to be POTUS, right? G.K.: But at the expense of the nation? B.K.: Nothing is more important than the advancement of John Forbes Kerry. G.K.: Go away and never come back. GO AWAY AND NEVER COME BACK! B.K.: Fat chance. |
| Posted by: Korora 2004-04-07 5:19:07 PM |
| #19 ex-lib: You're way too kind to that POS. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-04-07 4:48:57 PM |
| #18 RC, I will never question Kerry's complete stupidity again. |
| Posted by: Lil Dhimmi 2004-04-07 4:26:49 PM |
| #17 Say "bye-bye" to the military vote, Senator JoKe. Guess you could always try to get them thrown out like Albert did, but at any rate you may as well STFU about Vietnam now - anybody that might have been impressed by that hates you now. |
| Posted by: BH 2004-04-07 3:52:36 PM |
| #16 "American gigolo" a movie with John Travolta. |
| Posted by: JFM 2004-04-07 3:31:01 PM |
| #15 Hmmm... somebody save that audio. Imagine a pic of Sadr's paper, with the lines about stabbing Coalition troops in the back highlighted and shown in translation, then playing Kerry's line about a "legitimate voice" over it. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-04-07 3:26:21 PM |
| #14 Truly sickening! There is no way this a-hole should be the next C-in-C of the brave and honorable men and women in uniform fighting this same al-Sadr whom Kerry apparently thinks is merely misunderstood! How disgusting. |
| Posted by: Dar 2004-04-07 3:23:53 PM |
| #13 Kerry says " . . . (Sadr) aligned himself with both Hamas and Hezbollah, which is a sort of terrorist alignment." Just sort of? He's not an idiot. He's an amoral, diabolical, traitor, and so is his friend Ted. |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2004-04-07 3:23:22 PM |
| #12 http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1815395 Its in the bottom link (the complete interview), labeled "Web Extra: Hear the Extended Interview" |
| Posted by: RussSchultz 2004-04-07 3:10:41 PM |
| #11 B.: If they don't keep it alive, I will. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-04-07 3:05:37 PM |
| #10 oh my god! kerry just proved that if elected we will bend over backward so these asshats can do a ream job with the approval of the prez.. |
| Posted by: Dan 2004-04-07 3:05:35 PM |
| #9 Talk about handing Bush the election on a silver platter. He even served a side plate of waffles to go along with it. The most fun part will be watching his handlers spin this for the next several days. Let's hope the RNC keeps it alive until the election. |
| Posted by: B 2004-04-07 3:04:29 PM |
| #8 STFU, Kerry. And take the lush-whale, woman killer from the Mass with you. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2004-04-07 3:01:27 PM |
| #7 This doesn't cause a tremor on my suprise meter. Does it anybody elses? Kerry has always been a Hater of the U.S. since before he went to Nam. He was after Nam (Winter Soldier - a staged fraud he was heavily involved in organizing), his congressional testamony of 72 before congress, during his Congressonal career (voting against every weapon system - we would be defenseless now if he had his way!) and even now (promising to kowtow to the Mullahs and Kimmie-boy). |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-04-07 2:56:25 PM |
| #6 Sombody please tell me that we have this all on tape. (audio or video) |
| Posted by: Dave 2004-04-07 2:54:40 PM |
| #5 I don't think even John Kerry knows what John Kerry means by all this doubletalking bullshit. I agree with SM: he's an idiot. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2004-04-07 2:53:01 PM |
| #4 This has to be one of the most monumentally stupid things ever said by a major party candidate for national office. It's got to be in the top 5, that's for sure. "Not if it’s [Sadr's arrest] an isolated act without the other kinds of steps necessary to change the dynamics on the ground in Iraq." Actually, this is not stupid. Arresting Sadr and locking him up as a matter of law enforcement would be a recipe for disaster. That's what Sadr should've tried to arrange, if he had any brains. In this case, the "other kinds of steps necessary" is exactly what we're doing. I'll bet that's not what Kerry means, though. |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2004-04-07 2:50:32 PM |
| #3 He really can't commit to anything can he? I would have loved to hear his wedding vows! |
| Posted by: 11A5S 2004-04-07 2:48:30 PM |
| #2 Please kill my post. I failed to link to LGF and I was just moments before Mike's. I would like to add that Kerry can't seem to give up his old habist as a fifth columnist. He betrayed the US during Viet Nam by spewing communist propaganda, and he is stating his intentions now. I no more believe that this was a misspoken phrase than I believe Kerry is a patriotic American. Consider this a bald statement of his beliefs with regard to soldiers in the field. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-04-07 2:48:22 PM |
| #1 Idiot. Let's hope that we don't end up calling him "President Idiot." |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2004-04-07 2:45:43 PM |