What was Kerry responding to when he used the "F" word in Rolling Stone..?

[kentuck]

..interview? Wasn't the question about the Iraq War and how he didn't know Bush was going to "fuck it up" so badly?? Anyone have the direct quote?

[enigmatic]

1. It wasn't Playboy...

It was Rolling Stone..

[kentuck]

3. Thanks, enigmatic....corrected

:)

[enigmatic]

4. No prob! n/m

[bigtree]

2. During the primaries

''I voted for what I thought was best for the country. Did I expect Howard Dean to go off to the left and say, 'I'm against everything'? Sure. Did I expect George Bush to f - - - it up as badly as he did? I don't think anybody did,'' Kerry told the magazine

[DrFunkenstein]

5. Can Anyone Find A Link?

There are some statements he made that would be EXTREMELY useful about articulating his position on Iraq - specifically that there is no reason why inspections couldn't be continuing to this day.

[Philostopher]

6. Here's a link to the whole article/interview:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story?id=5939886&pageid=rs.PoliticsArchive&pageregion=mainRegion&rnd=1092930440441&has-player=unknown

It's in RS's 'Politics' section's archive.

[DrFunkenstein]

7. Thank You So Much!!!

I can finally rest!!

[kentuck]

8. Here is a very definitive excerpt :

<snip>

It seems that the fact that you voted in support of the president's war resolution has caused you a lot of trouble in your campaign. Do you regret supporting the president?

What I regret most of all is the way the administration dealt with it -- the extraordinary failure of the administration to keep its promises, to be mature and thoughtful about how you take a nation to war. They misled us; they presented false intelligence to us. The president made a series of promises to us -- number one, that he was gonna make every effort possible to build a legitimate coalition. He did not -- he built a fraudulent coalition. Second, he was gonna exhaust the remedies of the United Nations and the inspection process. He did not. And third, that he would go to war as a last resort. He did not.

I voted to protect the security of our country, based on the notion that the only way to get inspectors back in was to have a legitimate threat of force and the potential of using it. They took that legitimacy and bastardized it. If I were president, we would not be in Iraq today -- we would not be at war. This president abused the process.

[DrFunkenstein]

9. Kerry: Bush Is "Worse Than Incompetent"

"Worse than incompetent. Clouded by ideological excess, a misinterpretation of history, a willful denial of facts."

Nice.

[kentuck]

10. And some more attack comments from Kerry...

IMO, he should start repeating these charges...
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<snip>
Had you thought of Bush as someone whose word you could trust at that point?

It seems to me that we had a right to expect the president of the United States to live up to his word. It was disgraceful, one of the most egregious, fundamentally flawed moments of foreign policy that I can think of in my lifetime.

You were highly critical of the way they conducted the Afghanistan war, as well.

But that was a question of strategy, not whether we should be there or not. They had Osama bin Laden and a thousand Al Qaeda fighters cornered in the Tora Bora mountains and allowed them to escape.