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Home Front: Politix
John Kerry still thinks he won and people listen to him
2005-10-26
WASHINGTON — Sen. John Kerry (search) says President Bush should bring home 20,000 troops from Iraq over the Christmas holidays if the December elections there are successful.
That's nice Kerry. Keep talking out of your ass.
Election stolen from him Defeated by Bush last year and a potential candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, Kerry called for a "reasonable time frame" for pulling back troops rather than a full-scale withdrawal advocated by some Democrats. He said it could be completed in 12 to 15 months.
Here is a hint, you don't win wars by time tables, negotiation or giving yourself 3 purple hearts.
"It will be hard for this administration, but it is essential to acknowledge that the insurgency will not be defeated unless our troop levels are drawn down, starting immediately after successful elections in December," Kerry said in a speech prepared for delivery Wednesday at Georgetown University. Excerpts of the speech were obtained by the Associated Press.
Um...The bad guys won't be defeated by us until we leave? That is the dumbest fucking thing I have ever heard. Kinda like France saying it beat Germany in 1940 by surrendering.
The presence of 159,000 U.S. troops in Iraq is deterring peace efforts, said Kerry, a dick member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Actually, they are killing many terrorists with the new Iraqi forces and putting many of them out of buisness. Attacks are down from 300 a day to 3. That is a 300% fucking drop you moron and if you ever show up to the Senate meetings, you might actually know this.
"To undermine the insurgency, we must instead simultaneously pursue both a political settlement and the withdrawal of American combat forces linked to specific, responsible benchmarks," Already doing it he said. "At the first benchmark, the completion of the December elections, we can start the process of reducing our forces by withdrawing 20,000 troops over the course of the holidays."
Home by Christmas, John?
Kerry, who voted to authorize the use of force in Iraq, has been a strong critic of Bush's handling of the war, accusing the president of misleading the public into going to war.
John, here is a cookie. Now go sit over there by yourself until you learn how to play with others and not poop on the white house lawn.
Posted by:mmurray821

#16  Great speech John! Particularly like the switcheroo on "we need more troops" / "we need to withdraw troops". Keep up the good work. And please run again in 2008. Please! Please! Please!
Posted by: DMFD   2005-10-26 22:59  

#15  Time again kids for the is that a fart or John Kerry game??

What's that smell... 10 seconds
..he ran for president...
he celebrated christmas in Cambodia..
5 seconds...

Posted by: macofromoc   2005-10-26 21:21  

#14  FG - LOL Need a beverage alert!
Posted by: SR-71   2005-10-26 20:42  

#13  Hillary 3-Way, sponsored by Snap-On Tools™
Posted by: Frank G   2005-10-26 18:48  

#12  Hillary in a three way? I didn't know Reno and Shalala were back in politics too.
Posted by: Jaimble Ulavinter4821   2005-10-26 18:40  

#11  Never EVER say the name “Hillary” and “three-way” in the same rant. Now I have to clean up the barf off my screen. Oh man my stomach still feels queasy. P.S. John Who?
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2005-10-26 18:35  

#10   Kerry lost?

O' Lost!
A hat made man,
a story told to the mountains,
endless screaming,
to those green hills of home.

But the tomatoes were excellent.
Posted by: T Wolfe Shipman   2005-10-26 18:05  

#9  If Kerry is buds with Algore, that means he, too, has a burning hatred for Hillary.

Right on - the Clintons did some sandbagging to his campaign (nothing shocking or overly blatant, but it was there), JFK won't forget that.
Posted by: Raj   2005-10-26 17:42  

#8  ...and a potential candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008...

Please, God. I wanna see Donk pollsters jump out of 20th-story windows. Please???
Posted by: Disgrunt   2005-10-26 17:08  

#7  Those provisional ballots issued to Homer Simpson, Dick Tracy, Osama bin Laden, and their friends didn't count. Get over it, John...
Posted by: BigEd   2005-10-26 16:52  

#6  Kerry lost?
Posted by: G. Soros   2005-10-26 16:10  

#5  The important things here are twofold. First is what relation Kerry as to Algore, friend or foe?

If Kerry is buds with Algore, that means he, too, has a burning hatred for Hillary.

If Kerry hates Algore, then this could shape up as a nasty, at least three-way primary race.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2005-10-26 16:07  

#4  John who?
Posted by: Matt   2005-10-26 16:05  

#3  A day or two ago I received (why I know not) one of his political spam letters. It would appear he's trying to crawl back to something resembling relevancy. Somebody needs to tell him to take the ketchup bottle and shove it because nobody's listening or looking anymore beyond the lemmingtinkers!
Posted by: MunkarKat   2005-10-26 15:34  

#2  HEY JOHN!! Take your BENCHMARK and STICK IT UP YOUR LIBERAL PATHETIC ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How the HELL did he become a member of the Senate foreign relations comm. He never attends ANYTHING!!!!!!
Posted by: ARMYGUY   2005-10-26 15:16  

#1  Ah he's still pissed he had to spend a Christmas in Cambodia running guns and CIA operatives to the Khmer Rouge. There was no Napoleon brandy, no mull wine, nuthin. I think it's called seared memory syndrome.
Posted by: tu3031   2005-10-26 14:31  

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