KERRY: US SHOULD HAVE INVADED LEBANON
He didn’t come right out and say that, of course. But how else would you accomplish what he said about Hizbullah yesterday in Michigan:
Hezbollah guerillas should have been targeted with other terrorist organizations, such as al-Qaida and the Taliban, which operate in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Kerry said. However, Bush, has focused military strength on Iraq.
“This is about American security and Bush has failed. He has made it so much worse because of his lack of reality in going into Iraq.…We have to destroy Hezbollah,” he said.
The only way to “destroy Hezbollah” is to do exactly what the Israelis are doing; invading Lebanon. And the fact that Bush has pretty much green lighted Israeli actions in doing so calls into question the rest of Kerry’s critique:
“If I was president, this wouldn’t have happened,” said Kerry during a noon stop at Honest John’s bar and grill in Detroit’s Cass Corridor.
Bush has been so concentrated on the war in Iraq that other Middle East tension arose as a result, he said.
“The president has been so absent on diplomacy when it comes to issues affecting the Middle East,” Kerry said. “We’re going to have a lot of ground to make up (in 2008) because of it.”
So if Kerry was President he would have destroyed Hizbullah but at the same time prevented the Israelis from doing so by stopping the current conflict before it started? That leaves one of two ways to get rid of Nasty Nasrallah and his bully boys; invade Lebanon with US troops or curse the terrorists and turn them into pillars of salt.
The advantage of the latter is that Lebanon is in need of more products to export and salt is in high demand in desert areas. The problem with the former is that if Kerry were President and he sent troops into Lebanon, our guys would have to fight with straitjackets on and wear great big wristwatches so that they would always be aware of the time and stick strictly to the timetable for withdrawal our Commander in Chief would set.
Since Kerry has made it plain this is how he would have fought the Iraq War, we have to assume this is how he would have conducted operations in Lebanon. How many terrorists this would have killed is beside the point. The important thing is our men would have fought the way liberals want to fight; not really hurting anyone while making sure the troops are home for Christmas.
God its going to be fun watching this guy run for President again.
Hey, what about the international test? I was studying so hard!
Comment by Dave Schuler — 7/24/2006 @ 6:15 am
If Kerry was president, this wouldn’t have happened.
Well, OK, then. What WOULD have happened, Mr. Kerry? Or do we have to elect you president before we get to find out, like your extra-super-double-secret plan to get us out of the “Quagmire” in Iraq? If only we’d listened.
He never quite gets around to details, does he?
Comment by bobdog — 7/24/2006 @ 8:27 am
Our wonderful language includes a verb mood called the subjunctive for “conditions contary to fact.” Senator Kerry should have said, “If I WERE president…” This is crucial because, thanks be to God, this is a condition contrary to fact.
Comment by goddessoftheclassroom — 7/24/2006 @ 8:43 am
Horse-face kerry is an idiot. If he had been President we would all be dead and none of this would matter.
The left in this country is so looney and all the calls I heard this am on c-left spin span were from angry demoncrats
blaming Bush, Rice and everyone but the Hez guys.
Go figure. !!!
Comment by Drewsmom — 7/24/2006 @ 9:52 am
If Kerry would have been the coach for the Cubs they would have one the World Series too. This guy has some serious mental problems.
Comment by Bob Z — 7/24/2006 @ 10:22 am
Here we go again…
“This is about American security and Bush has failed. He has made it so much worse because of his lack of reality in going into Iraq.…We have to destroy Hezbollah,†he said.
…just before he says…
“If I was president, this wouldn’t have happened,†said Kerry during a noon stop at Honest John’s bar and grill in Detroit’s Cass Corridor.
Again, he is for it before he is against it? ::grin::
And you have to love the irony…Honest John’s bar. ::grin::
Comment by Sue — 7/24/2006 @ 10:55 am
The obvious alternative not mentioned but an option to Pres. Kerry, carpetbombing.
Comment by Neo — 7/24/2006 @ 11:57 am
Try as I might, I can no longer come up with anything humerous - or even insulting - to say about Kerry. He constantly reminds me of the undergraduate student who attempts to sound as if they’ve read the assignment, but doesn’t have a clue. This works in political science. It does not work in real science.
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Is it possible that Kerry’s plan to destroy Hizbullah consisted of repatriating his Swift Boat from Cambodia, picking up John Murtha and his rusty M-1 in Okinawa, and sailing up the Latani River in his secret CIA hat and attacking Nasrallah’s thugs from the rear?
Comment by Todd Stadheim — 7/24/2006 @ 5:50 pm
Random thoughts:
I don’t think Kerry’s plan would pass the global test.
Actually, John was for hezbollah, before he was against them.
This also brings to mind some favorite Kerry haikus from the 2004 campaign:
Things just can’t get worse
Going back to Ohio
Teddy wants to drive
Democrat love fest
Kerry, Edwards, left-wing nuts
All flunk global test
They say I flip-flop
But Teresa speaks her mind
Costing me the job
I’m a moderate
One consistent position
Bush is mean to me
Edwards is a twit
I should have chosen Howard
Screaming Dean gets votes
Michael Moore’s my friend
But I sent him out-of-state
Eating all my food
Even though they cheat
The dems still come up behind.
Why the long face, John?
Kerry equals toast
All he carried was the coast
Fags upset, Oh well
The air is rank
would someone flush the Johns
into the septic tank?
Comment by John Kerry Is A Freakin' Bozo — 7/25/2006 @ 9:51 am
There once was a man named Kerry
Whose voting record was very scary
He flips and he flops,
while his poll numbers drop
and his positions seem contrary
Posted by: Richard Popeson | March 09, 2005 at 08:05 AM
Even more:
There once was a man named Kerry
Who wanted a rich sugarmomma to marry
He came home from a war
Turned in to a whore
And wed the battleaxe known as Heinz-Kerry
There was a young traitor named Kerry.
He got out of ‘Nam on the first ferry.
He bragged of his war crimes;
Spoke to the New York Times.
President John F. Kerry? That is scary!
John Kerry didn’t think we should attack,
A country by the name of Iraq,
He screams and he rants,
That we didn’t check with France,
Because he’d get out the kneepads for Chirac!
In the election of 2004,
John Kerry was really a bore.
At every whistle-stop,
His position would flip-flop.
And supporters would head for the door.
A flipflopping weenie named John
Went to France with his three medals on
Jacques Chirac cried, “Mon Dieu!”
“I surrender to you!”
“Give me panties and let’s get it on.”
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