This story is racing – no, raging – across the American blogosphere today. While seated beside former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami at the Davos economic summit in Switzerland;
Kerry said the Bush administration has failed to adequately address a number of foreign policy issues.
“When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don’t advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy,” Kerry said.
“So we have a crisis of confidence in the Middle East – in the world, really. I’ve never seen our country as isolated, as much as a sort of international pariah for a number of reasons as it is today.”
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Kerry criticized what he called the “unfortunate habit” of Americans to see the world “exclusively through an American lens.”
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Steve Shippert, Threatswatch.org;
This goes beyond aid and comfort, this is imposing self-inflicted wounds. Those are the words one expects from Ahmadinejad, not a sitting United States Senator. And this is what congressional Republicans are teaming up with, and it sickens me.
Seething with rage, I remind those here that Iran’s Qods Force executed – EXECUTED – US troops last Saturday. Captured them. Bound them together, and shot them in the skull.
Why? Because there is no price to be paid. Further, seeking to exert influence on our own self-serving political class, it was indeed a message to them more than it was any combat on our forces or retaliation for our capture of Quds Force operators embedded within their diplomatic corps.
They execute our men and we send our leaders to lament our misgivings in apology to the premiere state sponsors of terrorism.
There is a rage brewing and I am nearly incapable of writing at the moment. I hope that someone in here lends eloquence sans nuance to this.
This cannot stand, and hand-shaking Republican co-signatories need immediate rebuke in the strongest terms. For they own this man’s words and must understand. We see their words as the enemy does – inseperable and indistinguishable from a united message of apology.
I bear no apology. None. It is time for Iran to pay a price. We know where the EFP/IED factories are in Iran. We know where the IRGC barracks are. They are the word’s 4th leading oil exporter, yet a gasoline importer. There are a handful of refineries in various states of disrepair. We know where much of value to them is. If they are coming into Iraq to execute our men, we must send a message of the price to be paid, lest more follow. I am not calling for the declaration of war and invasion.
They blew up our embassy in Beruit. Nothing.
They blew up our Marine Barracks in Beirut. Nothing.
They hijacked an airliner and executed a US Navy diver. Nothing.
They were complicit in the 1996 Khobar Tower bombing. Nothing.
They are known to have trained al-Qaeda operatives in Hizballah’s Bekka Valley and in Sudan. Nothing.
They train, fund and arm Sadr’s men and AQ in Iraq. Nothing.
They summarily executed a US Army Public Affairs Unit in Krabala. ___________.
I sense that others in here do not understand what I mean when I say executed.
And WE are the pariah? Have we lost our damned minds?
What message are we to send our men currently fighting the fight? “Move along, nothing to see here.”???
I have always hated those damned yellow ribbons, especially when they were intended to show some modicum of support for me while I was myself deployed. I swear to you today, every cheesy yellow ribbon I find on a car or signpost is getting ripped down. This is no substitute for fortitude, yet that is precisely what it represents to far too many. Take off your yellow ribbon. Far too many display them so that they can be percieved one way or another, not so that troops may take some measure of support from them.
I need to end this rant here, hoping that I can find calm at some point today to effectively fight this fight with the only weapon left me: words. I feel like a raging bull, struggling for self control, driven to the edge by the self-service of others.
Related:
“Hey, I bet you’ve probably wondered why Al Qaeda hasn’t struck in the US since 9/11. They don’t have to.“
Flashback – Kerry’s “Global Test”
let me be the first to state that any and all support I may have given the kerry camp or viewpoint is now gone completely and permanently.
this is way over the line mr jfk 2.0
Even if you can’t stand G.W. now you see why we decided lurch should never see a future beyond his current title of the Junior Senator from the tiny state of mASS. However he might have potential as a ketchup salesman in France.
The biggest condemnation history will have of this war period, was allowing traitors like this guy & certain publications that have aided & abetted the enemy in every possible combination.
To spread misinformation from the enemy, using our own freedom’s. To subvert the publics will towards appeasement. To surrender!! If not exposing vital programs to protect us all. The Jihadists don’t need a secret service. They have certain MSM media outlets that do it for them. Self serving politicians with no thought of a tomorrow. Only a hunger to win, no concern over consequences nor what their nattering is doing to the troops or moral of citizens. Only there own needs apply. The Country be dammed.
These men & women are complete turncoats with no love or honor for there respective Countries. They want us to lose as Kate averred in another post . This sort of reptile loves to hear about casualties to rationalize their own cowardice away. Cheering on a Nations foes, is an act of betrayal by blind pigmies of no conscience. If there cause is just. By now the left is as besotted with this death cult, as they are of self-absorbed in their own love of death for every situation except serial killers. They can not even see the danger to themselves. Let alone the entire civilization. Lost as they are in apparitions of Utopia.
Ask them if they want us to win , than notice they never answer. This is more than dissent, its conspiracy & consent to subversion.
Just my opinion.
Rejecting this slimeball in 2004 was the smartest thing americans have done for the world. Kate, I hope you have sent this to Rush for his take.
Well, if he was running before he certainly isnt now.
The US democrats hate America, as opposed to wanting to make it batter it is a self flagellation.
The accusation against the CPC in Canada was that it hated Canada. You know it was never about hating it. It was always about wanting to live up to its potential and be better than it was.
There is a difference in those approaches and Kerry and Move On.org definitiely have the self loathing versus self improvement attitude.
‘Happened to catch Kerry spewing “America as pariah” on CNN this afternoon and, sadly, I COULD believe my eyes and ears.
‘Just confirms my absolute disdain and detestation of this man and what he stands for–which is nothing but warm fuzzy platitudes and blood chilling and traiterous remarks.
The U.S. is at war, for G*d’s sake, our Western civilization/way of life is in the balance and this ethically challenged Heinz-hangeron has the gall to aid and abet the enemy…
Too bad we couldn’t bring back the stocks in the public square. John Kerry deserves to be taken to task for the heinous stand he has taken in favour of the Islamofascists and against his own country. Will anyone in the MSM do it?
WWII had Tokyo Rose. The War on Terror now has Tehran Johnny.
I see Andrew Sullivan is even calling it a shame. As he should. And he voted for Kerry, relunctantly though
Canadians may not be interested in war but war is certainly interested in Canadians.
Bush will be completely retired in less than two years and this war will still be in its early stages. There will definitely come a time when it hits painfully hard into our comfortable lives and homes.
Watch and remember what our politicians and journalists are saying, it is going to be an interesting historical record, if there is a free civilization to write it down.
Worst case scenario? A global ‘war to end all wars’, totalitarian Islam versus totalitarian ‘socialism’.
Islam will win that one.
What a b…..d!!! The Swift Boat vets had his number. Trying to storm the doors of the White House in ’08 are the same irresponsible slobs of Kerry’s ilk, adored by and given a pass by the MSM elite, and more horrifying, we have some damn dumb memory challenged electorate that almost delivered a snake like Kerry to Commander-in-Chief position. How our enemies must love these fools. It makes my blood boil.
The ’08 election is a watershed for America, for the free world for that matter.
And the US has Libby on trial for having a bad memory. American voters should be on trial for the same bad memory. Too bad they can’t charge all democrats, cia leakers, the NYT and others with treason. No wonder the media has lost 88% of jobs. Bush will go down as a very brave president, leading a bunch of wuzzies.
Acts of treason are not a new thing for the Democratic Party.
In John O’Sullivans excellent book “The President, the Pope and the Prime Minister”, he details attempts by Senator Edward Kennedy to thwart Reagan’s policies at undermining the Soviet Empire (Pages 253-4). Kennedy had met with Gorbachev in Moscow in February 1986. In a subsequent meeeting with Vadim Zagladin, the Soviet International Department’s deputy head, Zaglasin recorded the following observations:
1. At the same time, in E. Kennedy’s opinion, ‘‘my Soviet friends have not yet thoroughly understood the psychology of the Americans and the essence of Reagan’s tactics’’.
2. “You [Soviets],” Kennedy continued, “have a notion about the power of the military-industrial complex [in the US]. And, indeed, it has its weight and strength. First, however, it is not as powerful in politics as you imagine. Second, it is not monolithic.”
3. In Kennedy’s opinion “We [Soviets] should choose two or three points which could be achieved and constantly put pressure on Reagan in order to restrict his freedom of maneuver. These points might be the following:
— confirmation of the ABM Treaty;
— restriction of the nuclear tests limit and a cut in their number;
— missiles in Europe (though, Kennedy said, Reagan will demand the elimination of missiles from Asia).”
4. Summarizing, Kennedy said: ‘‘the present complacency of the Americans, their almost Christmas mood, must be broken”
Full details here: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZGM2ZTE4Y2ExNDU3NGMyNmNhMWNkYjU3ZWNhYTk0NGQ=
Not so long ago traitors were hung for parleying with the enemy.
Well, afterall he is a patriotic terrorist .
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-gutfeld/new-trend-on-the-rise-t_b_39594.html
The hollow saber rattle of the chicken hawks is almost as sickening as the self-debasing masochistic liberalism of Bush’s fellow bonesman JFKerry.
Man, there is a concentration of globalist scum in Davos this week.
The US is now playing the global imperialist role like the Brits, Spanish, Dutch and French before them and they will get their tits caught in the wringer from time to time as they manage to piss off every indiginous peoples who take exception to them interfering in their nation’s affairs or occupying their country…it’s part of the territory you bite off when you decide to be an intrusive global super power with a military foreign policy agenda.
That does not excuse Kerry’s psychotic need to cleanse his displaced yuppy-liberal guilt complex by adopting the “optics” of his nation’s enemies.
But above and beyont the shameless bootlick self promoting peaceniks like Kerry hand out to the world’s tyrants, I wish the cheerleading chicken hawks in the benches urging on the war would volunteer for service instead of waving the flag and rattling their sabers from the safety of the benches…then Bush would have no manpower worries about a conventional occupation of Iran.
It is the lack of “volunteer” army personel that makes him balk at a definative military retaliation to Iranian insults.
All chicken hawks report for front line duty. Time to get out from behind the safety of yer keybords….get your ass in the grass heros! I guarantee you’ll have a differnt attitude about rushing to war before other opetins are exhausted…if you survive the ordeal.
This man is shit. He has always worked against the USA and is still doing so.
He is also very political. He says “when we walked away from Kyoto” bad us. But it was his party that did that. Also, doesn’t mention Saudi (non) participation in Kyoto.
Hey, they could stop fossil fuel usage tomorrow by asking the westerners to stop pumping the oil. Notice that that doesn’t happen??
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Maybe Kerry just likes a straight talker. People like Khatami and Ahmadinejad…
“Say what you will about Iranian President Madman Ahmadinejad, you sure
can’t accuse him of beatin’ around the bush.”
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This man is shit. He has always worked against the USA and is still doing so.
He is also very political. He says “when we walked away from Kyoto” bad us. But it was his party that did that. Also, doesn’t mention Saudi (non) participation in Kyoto.
Hey, they could stop fossil fuel usage tomorrow by asking the westerners to stop pumping the oil. Notice that that doesn’t happen??
Anon, re: “Worst case scenario? A global ‘war to end all wars’, totalitarian Islam versus totalitarian ‘socialism’.
Islam will win that one.”
If the socialists gain the upper hand in many of the western world governments, there won’t be any war. Those boot-licking, fawning, ass-kissing terrorist sympathizers will just cave in to the wacko Islamic fundamentalists without a single shot being fired in our defence. 🙁
That appeared in Huffingtonm Post. Amazing.
I wonder if he began his long-winded diatribe with “I’mmm John Kerry, and I served in Vietnam”.
BTW: This latest crap trend about wanting to punish people who disagree with the war can lead to some dangerous ground. America was built on the pretest of a right to protest and disagree…so was governing systems.
If there are people againt the war whi are truely committed to that position of peace ( as all real Christians shoud) this is no excuse to brand them as “traitors”.
Kerry is an obnoxious showboating terd and no more represents the anti war faction in America than Hollywood represents middle America.
Many of the people I know who are opposed to the war are vets…just the same this does not mean they will sell out their nation. Polls say support for the war among Americans is just about evenly split…I jsut get POed hearing warhawks call dissenting opinion “treason”.
Get over that BS…dissent is the stuff of a healthy democracy.
John Kerry is one sick puppy. His brain has turned.He is close to a treasonable act. To talk about your country like that is sick; when there is a War on. But there again he is a democrat what more can you expect, They who want to make the Americian Military a pussycat. Wimps all of them.
That appeared in Huffingtonm Post. Amazing
Yes, and as I’m sure you can imagine, the comments turned out to be far more entertaining than the post!
Give me a break, WL Mackenzie Redux: “Get over that BS…dissent is the stuff of a healthy democracy.”
There is honest and honourable dissent–which, I agree, is what democracy is all about–and then there’s stab-your-own-country-in-the-back (or should I say gut, seeing as Kerry met with former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami and dissed the U.S. in full view of the whole world).
If you can’t see the difference WL, then there’s not much point in anyone trying to explain it to you. Your namesake had a few problems discerning fact from fiction, too, as I recall.
By the way, blogs like Daily Kos are falling all over themselves trying to convince us, the public, that Kerry ‘really didn’t say’ what he did.
We, the public, are the ones who must be condemned, for daring to hear that Kerry said..well, what he said. The Daily Kos says that Kerry did NOT say that the US was a ‘pariah’. No, by no means. It’s our fault for hearing that he did. But wait…
Kerry said “our country [interpretation: the USA] is a sort of international pariah”. Hmm.
Noun: ‘pariah’.
Descriptive adjectives; ‘a sort of’ and ‘international’.
So, the USA is a ‘sort of pariah’. Seems clear to me.
Admittedly, Kerry didn’t specify what type or ‘sort of’ pariah the USA is.
He didn’t say if it was a: wealthy or poor, a happy or sad, a hysterical or depressed, a babbling or bubbling, a….He left that up to us. It was just a ‘sort of’ international pariah.
But he DID say that the USA is ‘an international pariah’.
Facts are facts. But Daily Kos is hysterically ranting that it is us, the public, who are the pariahs, the traitors, the evil ones..for daring to hear what we heard Kerry say.
Oh, by the way, Kerry voted AGAINST the USA signing the Kyoto agreement. Got that? Against.
He seems to have a problem differentiating fact from fiction. Rather like his memory of Xmas in Cambodia (except he was never there)…And the US has contributed more in Aids funding and Aids research than any nation on earth.
So, speaking of duplicity and hypocrisy…Well, Kerry is ‘full of the bluid-red stuff’. Otherwise known as ketchup.
Hey- don’t knock Massachusetts. It was, after all, the location of a lot of stuff that went on leading to the emergence of the USA. The fact that Kerry and Kennedy are there now – they’re just blips in time.
not to worry ET, ketchup boy probably fumbled his delivery of a joke,…again…
He knew exactly what he was doing; he made his announcement a few days ago that he wasn’t running for president so now he can get away with saying whatever he wants. The democrats are totally vested in failure in Iraq , it’s the only way they can win power back and that is if Iraq collapses. They’re betting on it. Sure, it’s a betrayal of his country; it’s a dangerous strategy coming out like this, and maybe some US troops will die(he doesnt care anyways; the troops are morons, remember?), but it gets the lunatic fringe of the democrat party base excited, energized and rare’n to go for elections in ’08.
so what’s Obama & Hitlery got to say about their fellodemocrat ??
Au contriare, Joe Canuck, those ‘boot-licking, fawning, ass-kissing terrorist sympathizers’ are merely useful idiots. When ‘socialism’ sufficiently locks into power their job is done. There has always, always, been a metamorphasis of ‘socialist’ rule into something that has no trouble at all going into ruthless total war.
WL Mackenzie Redux: Shocked to hear you make the “chicken hawk” “argument”. That loony-left logical fallacy was not expected from you!
I’m 58, I have a small business. How exactly do I “sign up”. With whom? Would they take me? Or are you suggesting maybe I start freelancing some kind of underground counter-terrorist operation?
Rhetorical questions all! Can I express no opinions then about this very real world war which is no less threatening even if one disagrees with the initial Iraq invasion.
What about crime and punishment in Canada? Shall I demur from expressing opinions on that too unless I enrol in the Police Academy?
Where do I sign up? Will they take me?
This thread is not about punishing people for dissent. It is about Kerry colluding with the enemy, being a traitor (yes, a traitor) — a reprise of his Vietnam days colluding with the North Vietnamese enemy who later told us that they thought they were beaten but that they held on due to the encouragement they received from the anti-war left among whom Kerry was a prominent member.
Reynolds sums it up well here. http://instapundit.com/archives2/2007/01/post_2065.php
to save the trouble, his summary is short, sweet and very much on point.
“Like Jimmy Carter, he’ll never forgive America for rejecting him, and he’ll console himself with the approval of America’s enemies.”
lunatic fringe – PETAphiles, marxists, leninists, feminazis, Jihadis, socialists, neonazis, communists, et al, … that creative segment of society that wants to invent things, build things, solve problems and make money.
But the dhimmi’s want us to believe they are patroitic. Why do the dhimmi masses support a retard who opposes everything they support and supports everything they claim to oppose. I’ve always heard that mental institutions are full of people that can’t tell fantasty from reality. All of them aren’t locked up.
Ha-ha-ha!
That Steve Shippert dude’s self-pitying, self-righteous whining was really funny!
Mossadeq, and this: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1527
there’s more but it won’t register with most of the knuckle-draggers here.
g’night doofusi!
Kerry is right. Bush and most Republicans are morons who are too stupid to understand the complexities International politics. Cowboys and Republican religious extremist are a threat to America and world peace.
Really, there are no surprises here. This is EXACTLY what we should expect from Kerry and from most of the DemocRats currently in office. They believe this stuff.
I say, bring it on baby! Let “a hundred flowers bloom” in the words of the late and un-lamented Chairman Mao. Please please PLEASE let John F’ing Kerry and every last one of the DemocRat gas bags mouth off limitlessly for the next two years.
Because nobody in their right mind is going to vote for the likes of that.
Of course USA is threat to world peace. Thank God we have Islamic fundamentalist fascism to protect free speech and human rights.
Conservativeidiot. If invaders were at your backyard, you’d be praying for the Americans to save you.
Maybe Dubya is a moron too stupid to understand the complexities of world peace; at least now we see why he defeated Kerry.
Too bad history records that USA is a colony, not an imperialist. If you want to see a real contemporary imperialist, just check out the old USSR.
Right Conservativeidiot (good name), the Middle East and Africa were all sweetness and light before Roosevelt and Texas showed up.
Trouble is, besides handing another propaganda victory to OUR enemies, Kerry and his ilk want to console themselves in self-loathing. They are oblivious to the tribal genocides being perpetrated and seem desperate to deny that we are endangered – the poor downtrodden have no choice but to obliterate us.
Oh yeah, it’s the American’s fault. What an intellectually lazy argument.
I say, bring it on baby! Let “a hundred flowers bloom” in the words of the late and un-lamented Chairman Mao. Please please PLEASE let John F’ing Kerry and every last one of the DemocRat gas bags mouth off limitlessly for the next two years.
Great comment!!!
kerry = vietnam = manchurian candidate
John Kerry is in the Vietnamese War Remnants Musuem. He is honored for his “heroic” contributions to the North Vienamese victory. A pciture of his exhibit in the museum can be seen here with all the gory details:
http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/staticpages/index.php?page=20040531140357545
Seems like everything is a threat to our moonbat friends except complete acquiescing.
you sir, you sir, you have now done a thing for which others have been lined up and SHOT for in the countries in which they lived sir.
I did support some of your positions as transient as they got to be sometimes and believed your words but now you have pissed on my shoe and spit a bulls eye in my face and 200 million of your countrymen.
what say ye now??? too busy burning all those bridges ???
you sir, YOU are the ‘great satan’ to which the muslim extremists refer.
HALP US JON CARRY WE R STUCK IN IRAN.
WL Mackenzie Redux 7.33pm stated…
“…truely committed to that position of peace ( as all real Christians shoud)… ”
Two comments and an observation
(1) take a deep breath, slow down, and think before you type.
(2) Christians are committed to peace as a goal, not a process. Anyone that thinks otherwise is clueless about Christianity. If you are not a Christian, you have an excuse. If you are one, I suggest you THINK about what you just said in the context of the doctrines of your faith. If you then still hold that position, I suspect that you merely think of Christ as a good man that died, and not God that rose from the dead.
Oh, the observation? The drivel that Kerry has spewed is a fairly common opinion. Those who hold it are, at best, naive idiots or mendacious cowards. Unfortunately, we are well past this stage: such opinions have hardened into a lens through which all other perceptions are filtered without an attempt at critical thought.
Sweet reason does not generally convince such people that they are fundamentally wrong.
Take a look at the photo at Yahoo:
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070127/481/vm10101271047
Khatami sure looks happy. He couldn’t BUY this kind of propaganda. Or, maybe he did.
I just checked both CNN and Fox. Fox has it as a major story on their site. CNN – NADA!!! Predictable, don’t you think?
to mr WLM:
re what constitutes a christian:
I have a peace symbol tattoo on my rt thigh with matthew 5:9 inside the ‘spokes’ and ‘blessed are the peacemakers’ in a banner across the bottom.
think of what a peacemaker is.
the colt 45 at the end of the 19th century was a ‘peacemaker’.
a peacemaker is one who MAKES the peace happen in a violent agressive globe.
I know in my heart of hearts if the situation called for it I could machine gun HUNDREDS of enemy soldiers in order to MAKE the peace happen, and say a prayer to the Lord for saving my skin as I climbed on the train to go back to my home where I bounce the grandchildren on my knee and laugh at stand up comics all with a pristine clear conscience KNOWING that the peace enjoyed by others AND myself was arrived at because the Lord saw to it that I have good eyesight and a cold ruthless nature which I called upon the one time the need arose.
Christ was not a wuss.
so-called christians who cave in at the first sign of trouble are not christians because their way is the way of the end of freedom including the freedom to worship as we choose.
Col. Paul Tibbits was a peacemaker. hiroshima was the wake up call.
Chuck Sweeney was a peacemaker. nagasaki was the message. war is a dirty rough and very imprecise business which is why we need to avoid it and get it over with as quickly as possible. what kerry did will extend the business in iraq.
quakers are the exception because they are an example and reminder of what it would be like if everyone had their view, and a goal to aim for. but we cant all be that way just yet.
I invite you to reconsider and revise your position on christianity and peace.
Hey- don’t knock Massachusetts…..The fact that Kerry and Kennedy are there now – they’re just blips in time.
I disagree, ET. Ted Kennedy is second only to the smarmy Robert Byrd as second longest term in office, 1962. Over and over again the Massachusetts electorate has stayed with him. What are the odds of a state having two idiots like Kennedy and Kerry as Senate choices. It’s one of the highest taxed states. The Boston Big Dig, 14.6 billion dollars in taxpayer waste, is typical.
Massachusetts, California, Vermont, NYC…..France would approve of, their attitudes to their squandering of the public coffers. The Americans that aren’t going to fail us in the WOT and reversing the nanny state aren’t from those zip codes.
Is he intentionally trying to sabotage Iraq, or is he just “stuk in Irak” mode?
what, do the moonbats take turns coming here to dish out their stereotyping bigotry??
man, I am a dye in the wool atheist, but I can say for certain that I would live in a evangelical christian country vs an extremist muslim one any day
the christians just want to convert me, the muslims want to convert me(or kill me if I do not), subjugate my daughters, murder my gay cousin, hang my hindu business partner, and a myriad of other arcane and ancient barbarisms
and as far as Iran is concerned, I have said it here before, as they are providing weapons, ammo and money to the taliban, they are a defacto enemy of Canada, and that has jack s#$% nothing to do with GWB….
just checked CBCpravda and CTV(Tass)
nada as well.
one of those lies by omission things. they did find it in their hearts to show an anti-Iraq rally.
actually rather surprising that CBCpravda missed it, he mentioned Kyoto and it was anti-Bush.