On 9/11, on Larry King Live, Kerry was
asked the following question, and had the following response:
KING: Senator
Kerry did your -- did you committee on international opertions and terrorism ever
actually fear something like this?
SEN. JOHN KERRY: Absolutely. Absolutely.
But let me join John [McCain] and I know all my colleagues in just expressing
-- I think all of us here in Washington are feeling in very personal ways the
loss of what's happened here. I know that I had one friend I know of already on
that plane from Boston, and I dread the learning of perhaps others. But for thousands
of families tonight, there is just a huge loss, and I think in every American
there's a sense -- there's a fury, an intense, burning fury about this and a determination
to do what is right about it.
We have always known this could happen. We've
warned about it. We've talked about it. I regret to say, as -- I served on the
Intelligence Committee up until last year. I can remember after the bombings of
the embassies, after TWA 800, we went through this flurry of activity, talking
about it, but not really doing hard work of responding. ...
Read more of
the transcript, and other good quotes, here.
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Apr. 7, 2004
Kerry: Terrorist Shiite Al-Sadr 'A Legitimate Voice'
In an interview broadcast Wednesday morning, Democratic presidential candidate
John Kerry defended terrorist Shiite imam Muqtada al-Sadr as a "legitimate voice"
in Iraq, despite that fact that he's led an uprising that has killed nearly 20
American GIs in the last two days.
Speaking of al-Sadr's newspaper, which
was shut down by coalition forces last week after it urged violence against U.S.
troops, Kerry complained to National Public Radio, "They shut a newspaper that
belongs to a legitimate voice in Iraq."
In the next breath, however, the
White House hopeful caught himself and quickly changed direction, adding, "Well,
let me . . . change the term legitimate. It belongs to a voice - because he has
clearly taken on a far more radical tone in recent days and aligned himself with
both Hamas and Hezbollah, which is a sort of terrorist alignment."
But
Kerry again seemed to voice sympathy for the Shiite terrorist when asked whether
he supported al Sadr's arrest. "Not if its an isolated act without the other
kinds of steps necessary to change the dynamics on the ground in Iraq," Kerry
told NPR, in quotes first reported by the New York Sun.
"If all we do is
make war against the Iraqi people and continue an American occupation, fundamentally,
without a clarity as to who and how sovereignty is being turned over, we have
a very serious problem for the long run here," Kerry added. "And I think this
administration is just walking dead center down into that trap."
On March
28, the U.S.-led coalition authorities closed al-Sadr's newspaper, al-Hawza, for
60 days, the Sun reported. L. Paul Bremer, the chief U.S. administrator in Iraq,
charged that said the newspaper had published false stories blaming the coalition
forces for local acts of terrorism. (newsmax.com)
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Instead
of "send me", Kerry really said "send someone else".....
Per
Boston Globe.... "I didn't really want to get involved in the war," Kerry said
in a little-noticed contribution to a book of Vietnam reminiscences published
in 1986. "When I signed up for the swift boats, they had very little to do with
the war. They were engaged in coastal patrolling and that's what I thought I was
going to be doing."
http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/061603.shtml
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http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showa.html?article=42011
Kerry Falsifies NH Woman's Story -- The Union Leader, August
10, 2004
NEXT TIME John Kerry accuses President Bush of misleading
the American people, remember Mary Ann Knowles......
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"I believe I can fight a more effective, more thoughtful,
more strategic, more proactive, more sensitive war on terror that reaches out
to other nations and brings them to our side and lives up to American values in
history." --John Kerry, on his plans to kill al-Qa'ida Jihadis with kindness.
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KERRY SAID U.S. SOLDIERS' SACRIFICE
ONLY WORTH IT IF U.N. APPROVED MISSION
(CNN's "Late Edition,"
4/17/94)
CNN's FRANK SESNO: "Senator Kerry, it begs the question,
what are the U.S. interests and the strategic interests in this place called the
Balkans?"
SEN. JOHN KERRY: "Well, they are less than our interests
in, perhaps, Haiti. They are greater than our interests in Somalia."
SESNO:
"But worth dying for? That's the question. Are they worth fighting and dying for?"
KERRY: "Well, it depends what you mean by that, Frank. If
you mean dying in the course of the United Nations effort, yes, it is worth that.
If you mean dying American troops unilaterally going in with some false presumption
that we can affect the outcome, the answer is unequivocally no. So, I think it's
a question of where you place the interest."
LEARN MORE
ABOUT KERRY/EDWARDS' SHIFTING POSITIONS AT WWW.KERRYONIRAQ.COM
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Who is too busy?
And let us not forget
when Larry King asked him recently about being briefed by the Bush administration
on the possibility of new Al Qaeda attacks, Senator Kerry said: "They have offered
to brief me; I just haven't had time."
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Posted
October 30th, 2004
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Kerry's Positions on Abortion And "Quotes
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