October 20, 2004
THE CONG, THE SANDANISTAS, ZARQAWI:
John Kerry: The Rolling Stone Interview (JANN S. WENNER, 10/20/04, Rolling Stone)
If you send troops into Iraq, how will you be able to tell them they're not risking their lives for a mistake?Because I'm going to make it a success, 'cause we're going to win. We're going to do what we need to do to get this job done. And I'm committed to doing that -- and I know how to do it. I'll put a foreign-policy team together that talks the truth to the American people.
What do you mean when you say you know how to do it?
I've spent thirty-five years dealing with these kinds of issues. When I came back from fighting in a war, I fought against the war here in America. As a senator, I led the fight to stop Ronald Reagan's illegal war in Central America.
If Nicaragua is the parallel he chooses, where he sided with the Sandanistas against the forces of democracy, is he saying he'd support the insurgency against democracy in Iaq too? Posted by Orrin Judd at October 20, 2004 1:45 PM
Well, if the senator is running on the idea that he has never met an enemy of this country who he couldn't support while being incapable of understanding the very events he cites as proof of his ability to deal with Iraq and the terrorist threat than the Democratic Party has entered a strange new world. This campaign is beginning to concern me. The level of nonsense being portrayed as sophisticated political thought by the senator and his supporters is higher than this observer has ever seen before. If the corrupted party of Clinton, Mcauliffe
Posted by: Tom C, Stamford,Ct. at October 20, 2004 2:22 PMSo his expertise at opposing past wars should assure us that he will win the one we are in? Please 'splain to Lucy.
Posted by: luciferous at October 20, 2004 2:45 PMWould somebody please read those 4 paragraphs again, and then explain to me what in the hell he said.
Posted by: AllenS at October 20, 2004 5:19 PM>Would somebody please read those 4 paragraphs
>again, and then explain to me what in the hell
>he said.
He said you are too simplissime and un-nuanced to understand The Anointed One Who Served In Vietnam. i.e. You're Stooo-pid!
Posted by: Ken at October 20, 2004 8:26 PM"I led the fight to prop up the pro-Communist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua, in accordance with my background of propping up the Communists in Vietnam."
Be careful not to have a goose-hunting accident, Hanoi John. Better not stand too close to an angry-looking guy holding a shrouded-hammer snub-nose.
Posted by: Lou Gots at October 21, 2004 11:07 PMHe is saying that Allawi is Ronald Reagan. Or maybe that Saddam Hussein is Ronald Reagan. Or maybe that General Abizaid is Ronald Reagan. Or maybe that Zarqawi is Ronald Reagan. I give up.
Posted by: jim hamlen at October 22, 2004 12:02 AMHe is saying that just as Ronald Reagan decided to fight an unwarranted fight so has Pres. Bush, and he is not going to support this war for the sake of supporting this war
Posted by: Ray at November 1, 2004 8:39 PM