Kerry, the Unilateral Haiti Hawk:
March 01, 2004
A YEAR LATE, KERRY GOES UNILATERAL
The candidate who wouldn't "support the president to proceed unilaterally" against Iraq has transformed into a Haitian hawk:
Kerry (D-Mass.) said he would have sent troops to Haiti even without international support to quell the revolt against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
"President Kerry would never have allowed that to get where it is," Kerry said, though he added he's not "a big Aristide fan."
A Kerry administration would have given the rebels a 48-hour ultimatum to come up with a peaceful agreement - "otherwise, we're coming in," he said.
"I would intervene with the international community, and absent an international force, I'd do it unilaterally," he said, adding the most important thing was to protect democracy.
You’d think all that Botox would’ve frozen a few thoughts in place; instead, they flop around inside Kerry’s head like dying bats. He’s quite the inspirational speaker, too, as James Lileks points out. How’s this for a line to rally the nation:
God has been on our side through most of our existence.
That’s the southern vote sewn up.
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