Kerry on Ed Schultz re torture: Clearly somebody has got to be held accountable

[ProSense]

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Spoke of multitasking: We can find a way to search for the truth and do the business of the country. (paraphrased)

[VeraAgnes]

1. This is an excellent follow-up from Ed's show last night

where he called Cheney a coward, a sideline hack (paraphrased) and said 911 happened on CHENEY'S watch.

Excellent of Kerry to follow-up tonight!

Here is last nights link....


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5513265

[ProSense]

2. Thanks.

Kerry made the clearest statement yet: someone has to be held accountable and there is no excuse not to pursue the truth.

[ProSense]

3. We need more elected officials to call for

a completely independent investigation.

Kerry made this same point in a USA Today interview yesterday.

[karynnj]

4. Even getting the full truth out in such a way that it can't be spun

or sugar coated over all time is important to do. Imagine what Bush's and Cheney's grandkids will think in the future when their grandparents' names are synonymous with torture.

[politicasista]

5. Thanks

:kick:

[beachmom]

6. Here is the USA Today article Kerry is referring to:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-04-21-kerry_N.htm/

Kerry: Administration lacks 'real strategy' for handling Pakistan

Just back from a visit to Pakistan, Sen. John Kerry says the Obama administration's plan for that volatile country, rolled out last month with great fanfare, "is not a real strategy."

"Pakistan is in a moment of peril," Kerry, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said during a session with USA TODAY reporters and editors. "And I believe there is not in place yet an adequate policy or plan to deal with it."

In an interview after the session, Kerry advised the Obama administration to stop using the term "Af-Pak," to describe a unified strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, because "I think it does a disservice to both countries and to the policy. The two governments, he said, are "very sensitive to it" and "don't see the linkage."