Kerry via Salon: "The president really has no credibility at this point"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Go, Johnny, GO.

:toast:

http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2004/09/21/kerry_un/index.html

Sept. 21, 2004 | Jacksonville, Fla. -- Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Tuesday that President Bush failed to present a true picture of Iraq to the United Nations and "does not have the credibility to lead the world."

"The president really has no credibility at this point," Kerry said in his first news conference since Aug. 9. "He has no credibility with foreign leaders who hear him come before them and talk as if everything is going well, and they see that we can't even protect the people on the ground for the election."

Roughly three hours after Bush defended his Iraq invasion decision to the world community, Kerry told reporters, "The president needs to live in the world of reality."

"After lecturing them, instead of leading them to understand how we are all together with a stake in the outcome of Iraq, I believe the president missed an opportunity of enormous importance for our nation and for the world," Kerry said. "He does not have the credibility to lead the world. And he did not and will not offer the leadership in order to do what we need to do to protect our troops, to be successful, and win the war on terror in an effective way."

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[Beetwasher]

3. Bush Today

Bush Dismisses Gloomy CIA Report on Iraq

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040921/ts_nm/un_bush_cia_dc&cid=564&ncid=1480

That's what no credibility looks like.

I know it's hard for people without brains to separate launching a war based on lies (no WMD's, No imminent threat, no nukes) from capturing a criminal. The world is safer anytime a criminal is captured, that doesn't mean it was a good idea to start a war and kill thousands to capture one tin pot dictator.

[Arkana]

7. Right.

It was safer when we got rid of Milosevic, Noriega, and Pol Pot, too. But was it worth it this time? The answer is no. Saddam was too weak to be any kind of threat to anyone. We've already established that he had no nukes or WMDs, and that he was anything but an imminent threat.

The problem with the right is that they see everything in black-and-white (not unlike four-year-olds).

[MadMichDem]

4. And your point would be......? eom

[Arkana]

6. Ignore Mr. Spinformation.

He's already been placed under arrest on charges of extreme stupidity and blindness to everything around him.

[Beetwasher]

9. LOL!

Indeed!

[xray s]

5. the point is...

...we would have been safer with Saddam out of power, if Bush hadn't fucked everything up in such an incredibly stupid way.

[blondeatlast]

8. Beat a hasty retreat yourself, huh?

THREE was the best you could do; copy- and pasting?

Jimbo/CU, you've GOT to do better, or it's a smackdown.

Good going, Mods. Thanks.

[blondeatlast]

2. YES.

Now, if only the press would let us see WHAT HE ACTUALLY SAID, rather than what they parse into something entirely different.

[dArKeR]

10. Kerry attacks Bush on Iraq leadership

Democratic presidential contender John Kerry accused President George W. Bush of creating a "crisis of historic proportions" as infighting over Iraq dominated the US election campaign.

Kerry's strongest attack yet on Bush's action in Iraq came one day ahead of the US president's address yesterday to the UN General Assembly, where he was again expected to seek to justify the invasion of March last year to oust Saddam Hussein.

The Massachusetts senator called for a national debate on Iraq and the war on terror.

But while repeating a hope to replace US troops with soldiers from other countries and Iraqi security forces, Kerry added no new proposals on how to handle the crisis where the US military is suffering a mounting toll.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/09/22/2003203879

[NightOwwl]

11. Love it.

Bush lives in a world of fantasy spin, needs to live in a world of reality...what great lines, Kerry should repeat them constantly until the election. Oh, and it's the truth, too. The media won't expose the truth, glad to see Kerry has stepped up to the plate.

When people start paying attention, it's only one small step to "Jesus Christ, look what this guy is doing to our country!" or "Why didn't anyone tell us before!" or "Thank God Kerry gives us credit for having some intelligence!" or you can fill in the blanks.

P.S. Thank you Bush_Eats_Beef, for my favorite new screen-saver.