Post Fact Checker awards Kerry 4 Pinocchios
The Washington Post’s Fact Checker examines John Kerry’s claims that he opposed the 2003 invasion of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and Kerry comes up short on the truth;
…given that Kerry has now twice in recent months made the claim that he opposed the war in Iraq, this is clearly not a case of a momentary slip-up.
For Kerry, the uncomfortable fact remains that he voted to authorize the use of force against Iraq, he believed the intelligence that Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and he said there was little choice but to launch an invasion to disarm him. Kerry may have been highly critical of Bush’s diplomatic efforts in advance of the invasion, but that is not the same thing as opposing the war when it started.
It’s time for the secretary to stop making this claim. In trying to make a distinction between his vote to authorize the war and his later dismay at how it turned out, Kerry earns Four Pinocchios.
While I’m not surprised that Kerry would lie (Christmas in Cambodia, anyone?) I am surprised that the Post would actually call him out on it. Yeah, we really dodged a bullet in 2004. But that bullet came back around in 2008 and got us in the ass.
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Well, sure he lied many, many times but that’s no reason not to trust him now, is it? I mean, anyone can change. Let’s give him the benefit of the…Hell, I can’t even say it jokingly. Kerry was a lying sack of shit, he is a lying sack of shit, he associates himself with fellow lying sacks of shit, and he works for a lying sack of shit.
Yes, those homing bullets are a pain in the backside, aren’t they?
Probably explans why he’s starting to look a little odd in a suit.
Lies often have a built-in boomerang. You think Kerry would have figured that out a looooooong time ago.
I’m wondering if the Post writer was sobbing as he typed that out.
Fuck you, kerry; go back to Paris and stay there…
Y’know, sKerry’s nose actually does look like it’s growing in some photos. Any bets on how big it will get?
The Syrian government is going to go with Russia’s offer. France wants someone to check the results. It almost looks like the White House is being told to go sit in a corner and watch the grownups. Wait ’til you’re spoken to – that sort of thing.
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/10/20416189-france-to-seek-un-resolution-on-chemical-weapons-syria-accepts-russia-deal?lite>1=43001
Kerry lied? (As if anyone would expect that to have changed at this late date!)
No fan of Kerrybama whatsoever, but let’s not forget that the Bush Administration didn’t exactly give us the gospel truth in urging that we invade Iraq, either. (BushCo fixing the “facts and intelligence” around the policy of regime change, and all.)
It always easy to point out the lies of the “other team.” It’s a lot harder to call out “our own” liars.
Oh for craps sake, Eagle Keeper. “Booosh, Boooosh, Booosh”. IS that all you bring to the table man? Good lord. Sat photos and HUMINT were indicating MWD’s were being shipped to Syria before our troops could get there. Oh wait! What about the yellowcake that was recovered and saving Kurds from being completely wiped out by Saddam’s sarin gas bombs?
Amen, Streets. I’m wondering what is going to happen when the international community gets their hands on the Syrian ChemWeaps and broadcasts the large Iraqi markings on them. Exonerating Bush and shaming 0bama at the same time!
Looks like everyone will be a winner here! Assad gets to rid himself of some highly unstable WMD. (How much of the oldest stuff is now terrible dangerous due to it’s having been moved so many times into and out of questionable storage?) Putin gets to look like the greatest diplomat in the history of the world. Obumbles gets to save face, and will likely volunteer to take possession of the nasty stuff.
Oh, goody. Then WE get to figure out what to do with it. Maybe he will just give it to that decimated bunch of terrorists and let them play with it.
Hello?? Is that REALLY where I wanted to post that comment??
Only the Shadow knows.
You mean to tell me that John “Apocalypse Now was my biography” Kerry would lie repeatedly? Surely you kid?