Reply #100: Superb!! And, for those who need a bit of a reminder about... [View All]

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...who Senator Kerry is, read this:

in several instances, Kerry attacked what he called the "horrendous judgments" and "unbelievable blunders" of the Bush administration. The mistakes, he said, included former U.S. occupation leader Paul Bremer's decisions to disband the Iraqi army and purge the government of former members of Hussein's Baath Party. Both moves are widely believed to have fueled the largely Sunni insurgency.

"What is sad about what's happening here now is that so much of it is a process of catching up from the enormous miscalculations and wrong judgments made in the beginning," he said. "And the job has been made enormously harder."

He added, however, that it was time to move forward.

"Mistakes have been made," he said. "Now, it's a different time and different set of judgments that have to be made. I'm here to make judgments about what moves are available to us."

Kerry is visiting Iraq as part of a Middle East tour that also includes meetings with leaders in Egypt, Israel and the Palestinian territories. He said success in Iraq was vital as part of the struggle for wider change in the Middle East.

"The stakes are very important, very high, and not just for Iraq," he said. "You have another election in the West Bank, a set of challenges to Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the region that are quite daunting."

By:

Kerry Cheered in Baghdad, Decries Bush Team's 'Blunders'
By Borzou Daragahi
The San Francisco Chronicle

http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010805W.shtml

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These actions of his are why I very much want to find some way to convince him to speak directly, forcefully and persistently about the fact of systematic disenfranchisement. I want him to say, as I've written to state simply and clearly -- No One Won This Election; No One Could Win This Election because many of our fellow citizens were either prevented from voting or have absolutely no way of knowing if their vote was counted as they intended.

Peace.