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guycaruso
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Username: Guycaruso
Post Number: 28
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 3:31 pm: |     |
February 10, 2004 -- Democratic front-runner John Kerry's response to President Bush's "Meet the Press" interview Sunday was as predictable as it was disingenuous.
"It appears that he was telling the American people stories in 2002," said the junior senator from Massachusetts.
"Back then, President Bush repeatedly told the American people that Saddam Hussein 'has got chemical weapons.' . . . And it was on that basis that he sent American sons and daughters off to war."
Yes, that's what George W. Bush was telling the American people.
Then again, so was John Kerry.
In a lengthy speech on the Senate floor on Oct. 9, 2002, Kerry declared that "in the four years since UNSCOM inspectors were forced out [of Iraq], Saddam Hussein has continued his quest for weapons of mass destruction."
And not just his quest: Kerry told the Senate that Saddam "has chemical and biological weapons, as well as missiles with ranges in excess of the 150 kilometers restriction imposed by the United Nations."
Moreover, he said, "Iraq has maintained its chemical weapons effort over the last four years."
Then Kerry declared that "a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a threat, and a grave threat, to our security and that of our allies in the Persian Gulf region."
And he added that "it would be naive to the point of grave danger not to believe that, left to his own devices, Saddam Hussein will provoke, misjudge or stumble into a future, more dangerous confrontation with the civilized world."
Even the fact that the Bush administration hadn't conclusively linked Saddam directly to the events of 9/11 didn't matter to Kerry 16 months ago.
"Can we afford to ignore the possibility that Saddam Hussein might accidentally, as well as purposely, allow those weapons to slide off to one group or other in a region where weapons are the currency of trade? How do we leave that to chance?"
We don't.
Which is precisely what President Bush has been saying all along.
Clearly, John Kerry was convinced - indeed, his 2002 speech makes a compelling case for why military action against Saddam Hussein was necessary.
Now he's running for president, and seeking the support of the leftward-leaning Democratic primary electorate.
So anything goes.
But he would do well to re-read the speech before leveling additional charges against Bush. And making himself look even sillier than he already does.
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ffof
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Username: Ffof
Post Number: 1919
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 3:33 pm: | |
maybe like the rest of the voters, he too was snowed by the administration. |
guycaruso
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Username: Guycaruso
Post Number: 29
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 3:39 pm: | |
ffof, was that the Bush or Clinton admin that snowed him. These Kerry statements go back to the '90s. |
ffof
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Username: Ffof
Post Number: 1920
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 3:42 pm: | |
thought you were talking about a speech in 2002. |
Brett
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Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 691
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 3:50 pm: | |
In 1993 Kerry said he was 50 years old, now I see in a interview he’s backtracking and saying he’s 61. What gives!
It’s got to be hard for any politician to say anything with out someone finding a interview where they said something different.
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guycaruso
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Username: Guycaruso
Post Number: 30
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 3:52 pm: | |
Ok Kerry's take on Clinton in 1998:
When the Bush administration presented the same evidence President Clinton used to justify the 1998 attack, Kerry said he was compelled to authorize the use of force because he had tried and failed to persuade Clinton to do the same thing.
"So, George Bush brings a legitimate security issue before the Congress in 2002," the Democratic front-runner told the crowd. "Am I supposed to turn away and ignore what I said in 1998, what I thought Clinton should have done?"
In comments that further bolster the Bush administration's case for war in Iraq, Kerry reminded his audience that weapons inspectors had already uncovered not just evidence of weapons of mass destruction programs but tons of biological and chemical weapons themselves, along with a thriving nuclear program.
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