Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Kerry on the realignment of our soldiers
Patrick of Liberating Iraq has a well-documented summary of all of John Kerry's recent positions on the realignment of our soldiers. He has been clearly and profoundly on all sides of the issue, to wit:
Here's Kerry against the realignment, today:
Here he is in favor of something that sounds very much like the Bush plan, just a few days before:
It turned out that Bush had more imagination and less "ideological fixation" than Kerry thought.
Here's Kerry against the realignment, today:
Today John Kerry Criticized The President For Realigning Our Troops. "Finally, I want to say something about the plan that the President announced on Monday to withdraw 70,000 troops from Asia and Europe. Nobody wants to bring troops home more than those of us who have fought in foreign wars. But it needs to be done at the right time and in a sensible way. This is not that time or that way. Let's be clear. The President's vaguely stated plan does not strengthen our hand in the war on terror. It in no way relieves the strain on our overextended military personnel. It doesn't even begin until 2006, and it takes ten years to achieve." (Sen. John Kerry, Remarks At The Veterans Of Foreign Wars Convention, Cincinnati, OH, 8/18/04)
Here he is in favor of something that sounds very much like the Bush plan, just a few days before:
In August 2004, Kerry Said: "I Think We Can Significantly Change The Deployment Of Troops, Not Just There But Elsewhere In The World. In The Korean Peninsula Perhaps, In Europe Perhaps." STEPHANOPOULOS: "Can you promise that American troops will be home by the end of your first term?" SENATOR JOHN F. KERRY: "I will have significant, enormous reduction in the level of troops. We will probably have a continued presence of some kind, certainly in the region. If the diplomacy that I believe can be put in place can work, I think we can significantly change the deployment of troops, not just there but elsewhere in the world. In the Korean peninsula perhaps, in Europe perhaps. There are great possibilities open to us. But this administration has had very little imagination, enormous sort of ideological fixation and, frankly, took its eye off the war against al Qaeda and the war on terror shifting it to Iraq at enormous cost to the American people and to the legitimacy of the war on terror." (John Kerry, ABC's "This Week," 8/1/04)
It turned out that Bush had more imagination and less "ideological fixation" than Kerry thought.
1 Comments:
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Bill Faith, at
Fri Aug 20, 02:51:00 PM:
Great point. I just posted on it and linked to Liberating Iraq with a hat tip to you.
