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April 12, 2006

KerryWatch®: The Final Insult

.... they were astonished, and said,
Whence hath this man this wisdom,
and these mighty works?
But He said unto them:
"A prophet is not without honour,
save in His own country,
and in His own house."

Poor John Kerry. Our favorite Accidental Candidate is looking for love in all the wrong places these days. Now Marty Peretz, the eminently-readable editor-in-chief of the liberal New Republic is dishing on the dashing Senator:

Continuing his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, John F. Kerry addressed (by telephone) a conference convened by that racist hustler and prevaricator Al Sharpton who won, if I'm not mistaken, exactly one delegate [ouch!] at the party convention in 2004. According to The New York Times yesterday, in what appeared to be rather inchoate remarks, Kerry used Iraq as a trope but offered a ten-point plan for the nation from soup to nuts ... well, from getting Osama bin Laden to legislating lobby reform. The Times alluded to Kerry's well-known verbosity. So it wasn't surprising that he also went off and said, "Not in one phrase uttered and reported by the Lord Jesus Christ, can you find anything that suggests that there is a virtue in cutting children from Medicare." I'd actually go Kerry one further: I doubt that Jesus ever mentioned Medicare at all. Still, it's probably significant that some presidential aspirants--Kerry, for one--want to demonstrate that there are among them some real live Democrats for God. Or, as the Times said about him, he is "A Roman Catholic, who has struggled at times to talk about his own faith ...

Now at this point the half-vast editorial staff were almost moved to intervene on behalf of the hapless Junior Senator from Massachusetts, but we confess that we were helpless with laughter:

Mr. Kerry also told the group that he believed 'deeply in my faith'." Now, there are many Catholics including high ecclesiastics who doubt this. But who am I to have a point of view on what is essentially an intramural fight? In any case, as it turns out, Kerry is not only a Roman Catholic but also an ecumenicist. Once again I rely on the Times: Kerry asserted that "the Koran, the Torah, the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles had influenced a social conscience that he exercised in politics." My God, what bullshit politicians feel obliged to utter! Or maybe the bullshit is already second nature, or even first. But since Kerry raised it, let me ask: What hadith of the Prophet influenced him the most, and why? And here I have a personal interest: Which of the injunctions of Leviticus and who among the Prophets have the most meaning for him? Ordinarily, of course, I wouldn't ask such personal questions of a politician. In the spirit of Jesus, Kerry will certainly forgive me for doing so.

Are we the only ones reminded of the time Mr. Kerry attempted to raze Capitol Hill in a fashion reminiscent of Pimp-C?

"I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important."

Mr. Kerry, when he's not grooving to the anger of the streets, seems to have enjoy mixing it up with our allies in the war on terror:

The greatest position of strength is by exercising the best judgement in the pursuit of diplomacy," he said, "not in some trumped-up, so-called coalition of the bribed, the coerced, the bought and the extorted, but in a genuine coalition."

The dashing war hero doesn't take any guff from those we've made promises to, either:

We want democracy in Iraq, but Iraqis must want it as much as we do. Our valiant soldiers can't bring democracy to Iraq if Iraq's leaders are unwilling themselves to make the compromises that democracy requires.

No American soldier should be sacrificed because Iraqi politicians refuse to resolve their ethnic and political differences.

So far, Iraqi leaders have responded only to deadlines — a deadline to transfer authority to a provisional government, and a deadline to hold three elections.

Now we must set another deadline to extricate our troops and get Iraq up on its own two feet.

Iraqi politicians should be told that they have until May 15 to put together an effective unity government or we will immediately withdraw our military. If Iraqis aren't willing to build a unity government in the five months since the election, they're probably not willing to build one at all. The civil war will only get worse, and we will have no choice anyway but to leave.

Well that is certainly first-class thinking - the kind they teach you in those fancy Ivy League schools. The terrorists have only been fighting because they don't have the popular support to get their way at the ballot box. Announcing a deadline for immediate withdrawal of all US troops ought to calm things right down. Surely none of the sectarian groups will get nervous and try to seize power and we just know the terrorists won't just stop attacking until mid-May when they can have everything they've fought for for the last two years without the bothersome necessity of facing 150,000 US troops?

The Senator apparently doesn't believe the Iraqis are capable of working together. He doesn't think they're trying hard enough:

CAMP AL QA’IM, Iraq (March 24, 2006) -- They came from far and near and waited hours in long lines under a hot Iraqi sun in hopes of joining the Army.

Nearly 400 Iraqi males – some as young as 15 – showed up for an Iraqi Army recruiting drive held at the Marines’ battle position in this region along the Euphrates River in western Al Anbar Province.

Of the 400 men who showed up to enlist, 179 were accepted – a substantial number, according to Coalition and Iraqi Army officials.

As Mr. Kerry and the NY Times keep telling us, Iraq will never be able to resolve its ethnic differences:

The recruitment drive was part of an Iraqi Army recruiting campaign aimed at incorporating more Sunnis into Iraqi Security Forces, according to Coalition officials.

The Iraqi Army unit partnered with Marines from 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment to provide security in this region of the Sunni triangle, spent the day screening potential future soldiers.

The Iraqi Government wants to have a better ethnic mix of Iraqis in its Army, and hopes to recruit 5,000 new soldiers by year’s end.

Though many were turned down, the hundreds of Iraqi men and teenagers were not deterred from waiting hours in long lines to see if they were qualified to become part of Iraq’s new Army.

Many recruits, who asked not to be identified, claimed they are joining the Army to protect their families from “bombs and insurgents who come to threaten their families.”

Two recruits, a 20-year-old from Husaybah, the other a 19-year-old from neighboring Sadah, claimed that their families were terrified of sending them to the Army due to the potential threat of attacks against their families.

Both said they’ve heard stories of Iraqi soldiers being targeted by insurgents, but the stories have not deterred them from enlisting. Moreover, their families are now encouraging them to enlist – a change of heart stemmed from an ever-growing presence of other Iraq soldiers working together with Coalition Forces.

Some who were turned down at the recruiting drive haven’t given up hope of serving as part of the Iraqi Security Forces. Many said they will apply for positions with Iraqi police forces.

“I am excited,” said one 20-year-old Iraqi man, through an interpreter. “I am not worried about basic training, but I will miss my family. It took me two days to convince them to let me come here today.”

“It’s expensive to live and the pay in the Army is good,” said another recruit through an interpreter. “I want to protect my family and keep the area safe.”

What a miserable failure. It's a good thing men like Senator Kerry and John Murtha will soon pull the plug on such doomed efforts:

Does John Kerry know that Jack Murtha is saying this?

There are only two plans: mine and the President's. On second thought, there is only one plan: mine. "Stay the course" is not a plan.

Because on CNN yesterday, Kerry took care to explain to Wolf Blitzer that his plan is not the same as Murtha's plan:

I think John Murtha and I agree on more than we disagree on. And I admire his leadership on this and I think it's been terrific. The difference is I've set a date by which I believe we ought to have the two events happen. And I want this international conference. John has talked mostly about the troops and the redeployment.

Was Murtha just going for rhetorical effect? Or does he not even take Kerry's plan seriously?

One thing's for certain: with the NY Times and CNN turning out daily diatribes informing the American people about this disastrously-planned war, we can take comfort in one thing: men like Kerry and Murtha have a Plan.

They plan for us to skedaddle with our tail between our legs as soon as possible.

CWCID: Chris Muir

Posted by Cassandra at April 12, 2006 12:40 PM

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