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01/10/2004 Archived Entry: "Kerry weighs in on O'Neill's charges"
Kerry weighs in on O'neill's charges
Hot damn. This is gonna get good.
"These are very serious charges by a former high ranking Administration official. We already knew the Administration failed to focus on the threat from Osama Bin Laden and Al Queda. We already knew the Administration broke every promise they made to work through the U.N., use the resolution to enforce inspections, build a coalition, and plan for peace. But Secretary O'Neill's revelations would mean the Administration never intended to even try to keep those promises.It would mean they were dead-set on going to war alone since almost the day they took office and deliberately lied to the American people, Congress, and the world. It would mean that for purely ideological reasons they planned on putting American troops in a shooting gallery occupying an Arab country almost alone. The White House needs to answer these charges truthfully because they threaten to shatter their already damaged credibility as never before."
Replies: 4 people speak up
Well, it's not like a hundred thousand of us haven't been trying to tell Senator Kerry and the rest of the Washington Democratic gang this very thing for more than two years now is it?
We collectively sniffed out the PNAC manifesto, pointed to their desire for a "new Pearl Harbor" to make possible the implementation of their agenda, watched in horror as 9-11 happened, recoiled when it was reported that Rumsfeld immediately asked "How can we spin this to get Hussein?" and I am damn sure than thousands of us tried to tell Senators like Kerry, Edwards and Lieberman and representatives like Gephardt exactly what was going on.
What did we get for out trouble? We were called nuts. Almost 500 of our soldiers were killed for no reason. Untold thousands of our troops wounded or so ill that they had to be eavcuated from Iraq. And the cost in Iraqi lives is something we will likely never know.
I appreciate that Kerry is asking these questions now but it strikes me as too little and too late. The time for questions was before a vote for unilateral war, not after.
John Kerry and Dick Gephardt should get off the campaign trail, get their rears back to Washington and set about bringing down this tyrant in the White House.
If Clinton getting a blowjob was an impeachable offense, lying the nation into war is what?
Posted by The Ox @ 01/11/2004 05:53 AM NY
lying the nation in to war is just standard practice. I know that this is a big revelation for most americans, but i think that anyone paying attention knew this was all coming as soon as bush was annointed. it should be interesting to see what else will happen now that we are in what hunter s thompson calls the "post american century" in his new book.
Posted by justin @ 01/11/2004 02:24 PM NY
"500 killed for no reason"? Quite clearly they were sacrificed for geopolitical causes the cowards at the White House were unwilling to sell. They took the low road which accords with their HATRED of America, and they will never do anything more than lean out the window of their limos with their tongues out, waggling their hands with their thumbs in their ears.
Tee-hee! But now is the time, the final time really, for the Republican party (the real one, if such a thing does exist), to call for impeachment. This weekend someone told me I should be doing more to inform people what I know, but I've been doing that weekly for three goddamned years! It's time for THEM, those who voted for the cretin and his cohorts, to get off their asses and express THEIR outrage, too.
If they don't, it's all over for their party.
Posted by Paul @ 01/13/2004 01:44 AM NY
Paul, in NY, who has been telling it weekly for three years.
Could it be him? The real, the one and only...
Posted by Mooser @ 01/13/2004 04:57 PM NY
