Arrogant And Asinine
John "Weeble" Kerry, 9 October 2002:
"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.... He has supported and harbored terrorist groups, particularly radical Palestinian groups such as Abu Nidal, and he has given money to families of suicide murderers in Israel.... We should not go to war because these things are in his past, but we should be prepared to go to war because of what they tell us about the future."
John "Weeble" Kerry, 15 December 2003:
"Iraq may not be the war on terror itself, but it is critical to the outcome of the war on terror, and therefore any advance in Iraq is an advance forward in that.”
John "Weeble" Kerry, the next day:
"Those who doubted whether the world would be better off without Saddam Hussein, and those who believe we are not safer with his capture, don't have the judgment to be president."
John "Weeble" Kerry today:
"Instead of finishing the job in Afghanistan the President rushed to a new war in Iraq. That was the wrong choice.... The invasion of Iraq was a profound diversion from the battle against our greatest enemy, al-Qaida," Kerry said in a speech at Temple University. "There's just no question about it. The president's misjudgment, miscalculation and mismanagement of the war in Iraq all make the war on terror harder to win....
"George Bush made Saddam Hussein the priority. I would have made Osama bin Laden the priority," Kerry said. "I will finish the job in Iraq and I will refocus our energies on the real war on terror."
So which is "the truth"? Why don't we ask a more credible source?
"I caught just a part of a news conference that [Kerry] gave wherein he talked about how bad it was that the Commander-in-Chief had taken troops away from me and put those out of Afghanistan and put those troops to work in Iraq. Sean, that's absolutely incorrect. You know, hey, my name's Tommy Franks, and I don't lie. Reading my book the way you have, I would refer you to page 386 of my book where we go ahead and we talk about the fact that the President used to stress to me every day his concern that we should not distract from Afghanistan and the fight there while we were conducting Iraq. We entered Iraq with 9,500 troopers in Afghanistan. And by the time we finished major combat... in Iraq we had 10,000 troops in Afghanistan." (General Tommy Franks On ABC Radio's "The Sean Hannity Show," 9/21/04)
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