9.24.2004
The king of all flip-flops?
"We know we can't count on the French. We know we can't count on the Russians," . . . . "We know that Iraq is a danger to the United States, and we reserve the right to take pre-emptive action whenever we feel it's in our national interest." -- Senator John F. Kerry during a 1997 debate on CNN's Crossfire.
Source: Washington Times. Caveat: Powerline has received a Lexus/Nexus transcript of the Crossfire segment. Kerry makes similar statements but those particular utterances are not present. Odd. The source of the Washington Times article is a tape of the event provided by one of the participants, Congressman Peter King (R-NY).
Speaking of Powerline:
By the way, at lunch today I saw an editorial cartoon that made an excellent point--one that should be obvious, but that I, at least, hadn't put together. The cartoon shows "President" Kerry on the phone, saying something like: "Bonjour, Jacques, I'm calling to ask you to send some troops to help fight the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time." I'm not sure that anyone ever believed that Kerry could somehow persuade our reluctant "allies" to lend more help in Iraq. But given the way in which he is now trashing the war effort, it would seem that Kerry will have to abandon the claim that if elected, he would be able to bring more allies on board.
"We know we can't count on the French. We know we can't count on the Russians," . . . . "We know that Iraq is a danger to the United States, and we reserve the right to take pre-emptive action whenever we feel it's in our national interest." -- Senator John F. Kerry during a 1997 debate on CNN's Crossfire.
Source: Washington Times. Caveat: Powerline has received a Lexus/Nexus transcript of the Crossfire segment. Kerry makes similar statements but those particular utterances are not present. Odd. The source of the Washington Times article is a tape of the event provided by one of the participants, Congressman Peter King (R-NY).
Speaking of Powerline:
By the way, at lunch today I saw an editorial cartoon that made an excellent point--one that should be obvious, but that I, at least, hadn't put together. The cartoon shows "President" Kerry on the phone, saying something like: "Bonjour, Jacques, I'm calling to ask you to send some troops to help fight the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time." I'm not sure that anyone ever believed that Kerry could somehow persuade our reluctant "allies" to lend more help in Iraq. But given the way in which he is now trashing the war effort, it would seem that Kerry will have to abandon the claim that if elected, he would be able to bring more allies on board.
// posted by HunterByrd @ 2:26 PM 
