“It is absurd to expect Allawi to say the same thing all the time to everyone when Kerry is absolutely famous for changing his stance and his story with stunning regularity.”

You would hold Allawi to a much lower standard than you would Kerry.

Come on.

Allawi did not say there is violence, there is no violence. His remarks were not mutually exclusive to one another . One can question degrees, but Kerry has taken stands that were completely contradictory of each other time and again.

And that can enbolden the enemy. Besides Kerry went out of his way to humiliate a man he may need someday and that is stupid.

“It is absurd to expect Allawi to say the same thing all the time to everyone when Kerry is absolutely famous for changing his stance and his story with stunning regularity.”

Hence my comment.

Also, regarding Dee Bates comment above, Kerry has also been consistant in saying we will not leave Iraq until the job is finished. So I’m not sure I get the gist of what’s beeing said. As a Kerry voter, if he does win and does throw up his hands and say hell with Iraq, I would feel betrayed.

Well for one thing Kerry is running for President of the United states and not Allawi. And for another Allawi did not lie. His remarks were not mutually exclusive unless you are a snotty little staffer working for Kerry whose positions have been entirely mutually exclusive time and again. Everybody contradicts themselves sometimes but Kerry is a study in confusion.

I heard His speech today. yawn. At least I hope this is the final edit.

Dee:

I know just what you mean.

RogerA, I’m not buying it. Not that the Congress isn’t trying to shuffle off responsibility, but I don’t see any evidence that the Congress has given up its authority to declare war — they have, after all, authorized hostilities in both Gulf Wars, in Afghanistan, and in Viet Nam.

If anything, their contention that by authorizing hostilities they were not exercising their power to declare war strikes me as part of the attempt to avoid responsibility.

And worse yet, what if Kerry had been president during the civil war? The Battle of Antietam results in 25,000 deaths in a single day. In fact the civil war offers an excellent analogy with President Bush as Lincoln and Kerry playing McClellan. One reason why Iraq is so important is that it will disprove the impression the terrorists have that the US cuts and runs when the going gets tough. We really have to stay the course for that reason alone.

They wring their hands over 1000 dead in Iraq? What about the 8,000 who died on Iwo Jima (to name just one battle)? Did American yell about an “exit strategy” after their husbands, brothers, and fathers were cut to ribbons at Normandy? Was there a call to surrender after the Battle of the Bulge? Only from the Germans. I answer with the Bulge’s CO: NUTS.

Why is he talking about an exit strategy (surrender)? Because there are problems. Well, HELLO! It’s a war. If we refuse to go to war until we can fight a pristine battle with no bad after-effects, we may as well hand the keys to government over to the thugs right now.

John Kerry has been perfectly consistent in one thing, from Viet Nam to the WOT: He’s a seditious SOB who will sell his country down the river so fast he will make Jimmy Carter look like George Washington.

I am normally a nice little old lady. I’ve lived long enough to have seen plenty of politicking and I learned a long time ago not to take any of it too seriously. Both parties have much to be ashamed of — especially the overt government censorship of political speech which was perpetrated by Congress, signed by Bush, and allowed a pass by the Supreme Court (who obviously needs remedial work in reading comprehension — what part of “Congress shall make no law. . . do they not understand?). But John Kerry is beneath contempt. He’s had his head up his backside for so long that nothing issues from his mouth but excrement. I can do nothing these days but wrinkle my nose at the smell. So, I apologize for ranting like a lunatic. It isn’t directed at anything but my utter frustration and fear.

Nothing in the P.M.’s speech gave reason for Mr. J. Kwisling and Co. to call the man a liar. These are the same people who would give Iran nuclear material and pow-wow with North Korea. They have no problem with tyrants and dictators, it’s only America’s allies that they spit at.

The fact that they can do nothing but sneer at Mr. Allawi only confirms that these are dangerously frivolous people. Kerry’s opportunistic rhetoric is killing people as sure as if he held the knife in his own hands.