September 16, 2004
WTF? Kerry supports "right vote" on "wrong war..."
Kerry supports 'right vote, 'while decrying 'wrong war'
John Kerry yesterday said he now can see no reason why the United States went to war in Iraq, yet added that he still stands by his vote to authorize the war.
[What is wrong with this man?!
Can't he afford medication with Theresa's billions?
Even if I wanted to vote for him--which I most certainly do not--I wouldn't because I can't figure out what the hell he's saying!]
[...]
"I think it was the right vote based on what Saddam Hussein had done, and I think it was the right thing to do to hold him accountable," he told Mr. Imus, saying his position "can't be clearer."
But Mr. Kerry's answers left Mr. Imus, who frequently describes himself on air as a Kerry supporter, flummoxed.
"I asked him a number of questions about Iraq, and I can't tell you what he said," Mr. Imus said after Mr. Kerry hung up.
[Imus is an ass most of the time, but he has these rare moments when he's a real hoot and this is one of them!--Jen]
[...]
"The bottom line: Anyone who listened to Imus, anyone who reviews the transcript, now recognizes that on the most important issue facing our country today — the question of how we deal with global terrorism — John Kerry's position has deteriorated into complete and total incoherence," Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman told reporters on a conference call yesterday.
[...]
At one point yesterday, after Mr. Kerry had criticized the Bush administration for failing to plan for the postwar period and not equipping troops properly, Mr. Imus said the senator might be to blame, citing his vote against an $87 billion bill to fund the war in Iraq.
"They can't get this equipment for these troops if people like you won't vote for the funding though," Mr. Imus said.
"We did vote for the funding. We voted for the funding," Mr. Kerry responded. "I voted for the largest defense budgets in the history of our country. And I voted — this is long after the war, that $87 billion vote. The war had started. These people were sent over there without the equipment, and they still don't have the equipment."
[What kind of Clintonian parsing is this?!?
"I voted...that vote?"
This means he actually voted "Nay," but is too chicken to tell Imus he's right.
Whatta tool.--J.T.]
In yesterday's interview, Mr. Kerry said he has not read the book "Unfit for Command," the best seller written by fellow Vietnam veterans who served similar duty as Mr. Kerry on swift boats and who dispute his service record.
But despite not having read it, Mr. Kerry called it "an absolute pack of lies."
[Whadda ya wanna bet he's read it cover-to-cover, maybe several times?]
"It's been proven to be a pack of lies,
[Not quite, Sen. Ketchup!]
and I have no interest in reading it," he said.
Author John E. O'Neill said there is "a simple reason" why the book remains the New York Times' best-selling nonfiction book for the fourth week in a row.
"It's all true," Mr. O'Neill said yesterday. "Neither John Kerry nor any of his campaign surrogates have come forward to refute a single word of my book."
The important thing is that because sKerry has now given a public statement about the Swifties and their book, it now definitely is a part of the campaign conversation at last!
When can we expect Jenghis John to address the substance of what they say, release his military and medical records and apologize for calling his band of brothers "baby killers" and "war criminals?"
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