KERRY: I'VE NEVER USED THE HARSHEST WORD "LIE" - UNTIL NOW
During the first debate:
JIM LEHRER: "New question, Senator Kerry. Two minutes. You've repeatedly accused President Bush, not here tonight but elsewhere before, of not telling the truth about Iraq. Essentially, of lying to the American people about Iraq. Give us some examples of what you consider to be his not telling the truth."
SEN. KERRY: "Well, I've never, ever used the harshest word as you just did."
The newest ad from John Kerry:
Narrator: “George Bush lost the debate. Now he’s lying about it. This is what you heard John Kerry really say:
John Kerry: “The president always has the right for pre-emptive strike.”
John Kerry: “I will hunt and kill the terrorists, wherever they are.”
Narrator: “But here’s something new about George Bush – newspapers report he withheld key intelligence information from the American public so he could overstate the threat Iraq posed. Bush rushed us into war. Now we’re paying the price. It’s time for a fresh start.”
John Kerry: “I’m John Kerry and I approved this message.”
Of course, Kerry had used the word "lie."
"Kerry also told a New Hampshire newspaper editorial board Friday that Bush had 'lied' about his reasons for going to war in Iraq, a word Kerry has been reluctant to use publicly for months. Yesterday he said he did not plan to use the word again." (Patrick Healy, "Kerry Camp Lowers N.H. Expectations Behind In Polls, Senator Now Seeks Spot In 'Top Two,'" The Boston Globe, 12/8/03)
"This administration has lied to us. They have misled us. And they have broken their promises to us. The president promised to the people and the Congress that he would build an international coalition, respect the United Nations' process and only go to war as a last resort. I will tell you that from my war fighting experience, I believe there is a test for a president as to how you go to war. And that test is whether or not you can look in the eyes of parents and say to them, 'I did everything possible to avoid the loss of your son and daughter, but we had no other choice in order to protect the security of our nation,' and I know this president fails that test in Iraq." (Sen. John Kerry, Campaign Event, Claremont, NH, 9/20/03)
I never used the word "lie," until I did. And then I did, and then I didn't.
UPDATE: Ah, yes: I forgot this one: Kerry responded, informally and off camera: "Let me tell you, we've just begun to fight. We're going to keep pounding. These guys are the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen."
Some times I wonder if Senator Kerry knows what he is saying and has said in the past. Doubtful.
THE WISDOM OF TERESA
The New York Times headline, today:
Afghans Studying the Art of Voting
Another New York Times headline, also today:
U.S. Envoy Reports Success in Restive Afghan City
Teresa Heinz Kerry, Sunday:
"The Taliban is back running Afghanistan."
Yeah, but those reports are probably just more pro-Bush propaganda from the New York Times.
TELL US WHAT YOU REALLY THINK, MR. BLANKLEY
You think Tony Blankley doesn't like John Kerry?
French policy is to morally equate America's presence in Iraq to Hitler's Nazi occupation of France. This is the foundation of Mr. Kerry's plan to win the war in Iraq. A notional President Kerry would find himself seated at the summit table negotiating peace terms with the literal cutthroats of our fellow citizens. This, Mr. Kerry calls realism, while he characterizes President Bush's determination to defeat the cutthroats of the world as "fantasy."
But it would be unrealistic to think that such a summit, with the terrorist enemy formally seated as a negotiating partner, would call for the military defeat of the terrorists — certainly not with their friends the French and the Arab League nations vociferously supporting the enemy.
Whenever one is told to be realistic, it inevitably means one is not going to get what one wants. Mr. Bush wants defeat of the terrorists and their fellow insurgents and a peaceful, pluralistic Iraq.
In France, in 1940, the men and women who dreamed of liberation and eventually formed "la resistance" were not being realistic. The realist was the austere, aristocrat Marshall Petain, who negotiated a collaborator's peace with Hitler and called it Vichy. Five years later, his followers were shot in the village squares by patriotic Frenchmen. There is a lot of Petain in Mr. Kerry.
John Kerry may have won the debate, but he would lose the war.
While we're on the topic of the French, this report contends President Bush privately refers to French President Jacques Chirac as "The Jackass."
Please, Mr. President, that's tremendously wrong.
It's "Le Jackass."
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