Shhhhh. It's A Secret.
If elected, John Kerry has a plan to bring the boys and girls home.
John F. Kerry pledged Sunday he would substantially reduce U.S. troop strength in Iraq by the end of his first term in office but declined to offer any details of what he said is his plan to attract significantly more allied military and financial support there.
I suspect he'll use Howard Dean's plan to generate the "135,000 Moderate Moslem troops".
Pressed for details, Kerry replied:
"I've been involved in this for a long time, longer than George Bush," he said. "I've spent 20 years negotiating, working, fighting for different kinds of treaties and different relationships around the world. I know that as president there's huge leverage that will be available to me, enormous cards to play, and I'm not going to play them in public. I'm not going to play them before I'm president."
Ah. A
treaty. Well, I'm sure nobody's thought of that before. Hey -
is there a treaty banning terrorism yet?
Well, there y'go!
Questioned about his votes against the money to fight the war and rebuild Iraq ("I voted for the war, before I voted against it..."), he responded:
Kerry defended his and Edwards's votes against an $87 billion authorization for military and reconstruction costs in Iraq and Afghanistan, which the Bush campaign has used repeatedly to question Kerry's commitment to U.S. forces. Kerry said he learned in Vietnam that presidents should not get a blank check for policies that do not work.
"We voted to change the policy," he said on CNN's "Late Edition." "We voted in order to get it right."
Right. Because you said nothing about it before?
And that's a fine way to "get it right" - cutting off funding when the troops are in country.
Here's the interestng part; read the whole WaPo article. Does the tone seem just a little more critical (i.e., does it feel like the reporters are starting to act ever-so-much like journalists) in approaching Kerry?
Posted by Mitch at
August 2, 2004 06:29 AM
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Mitch wrote:
"I suspect he'll use Howard Dean's plan to generate the "135,000 Moderate Moslem troops"."
Sounds like someone got around to reading the 2004 Democrat Party Platform:
http://a9.g.akamai.net/7/9/8082/v001/www.democrats.org/pdfs/2004platform.pdf
"As other countries, including Muslim majority countries, contribute troops, the United States will be able to reduce its military presence in Iraq, and we intend to do this when appropriate so that the military support needed by a sovereign Iraqi government will no longer be seen as the direct continuation of an American military presence."
Bottom line, should Kerry be elected, the Democratic base's priority is to get our troops out of Iraq rather than finish the job. Which explains why this morning, St Paul mayor Randy Kelly became teh latest Democrat to endorse George W Bush for reelection.
http://kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=67485
Posted by: Thorley Winston at August 2, 2004 08:45 AMDon't forget Wesley "Saudi Commando" Clark.
Posted by: Will Allen at August 2, 2004 10:27 AMWell, here's a question: If he has such a brilliant plan, and he's supremely confident it will work, why is he not playing his cards NOW, if we are supposedly in dire need of this extra allied military and financial support NOW? If he was seriously concerned with this war ending well, he would be screaming for the Bushies to listen to him, rather than forcing the press and Republicans to pull teeth. If he is more experienced and dedicated compared to Bush, he would act like the senator he is (or thinks he is) and share the details of this plan with those who are able to implement it right away, rather than waiting until he is in control of the machinery of state. As it is, it seems like he's blackmailing the electorate: "Vote for me, or you don't get to hear my super-secret-can't-lose plan- you wouldn't want any more dead GI's on your conscience, would you?!"
I mean, he can still take credit for the plan, he can whoop and holler all he wants to that "he da man," let's just hear how we're gonna get out of this "mess."
What an ass.
Posted by: Mark V. at August 2, 2004 03:03 PM"I voted for the war, before I voted against it"
Bush would've voted against the war, before he voted for it. Just because of the way the bill was worded.
A LIFELONG REPUBLICAN WHO BELIEVES IN THE TRUTH
Posted by: Bligo at August 31, 2004 08:53 PM