Secretary of State John Kerry added to his public “embarrassments” as he was accused of “lying” when he “claimed” that he and Secretary of State Chuck Hagel had “opposed the president’s decision to go into Iraq”.
The Washington Post’s Fact Checker column awarded Kerry four out of four “Pinocchio’s” on its sliding scale of “untruthfulness.”
That “ignoble” result puts Kerry’s comment on a “credibility” par with Obama’s recent claim that “the world’s red line” was not his “own words” when he first “warned” Syria’s dictator of the consequences of using “chemical” weapons.
The Post slammed John Kerry on for changing his position on the Iraq war, giving his recent flip-flop a rare “Four Pinocchio” rating
During an interview on MSNBC Kerry said that “air strikes” against the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria would not become “yet” another U.S. military quagmire, citing his “alleged opposition” to the Iraq War.
“I think a lot of Americans, a lot of your listeners, a lot of people in the country,” Kerry said, are sitting there and saying, “Oh my gosh, this is going to be Iraq, this is going to be Afghanistan, here we go again.”
“I know this, I’ve heard it,” he continued. And the answer is “no, profoundly no.”
You know, Senator Chuck Hagel, now secretary of defense, and I, when I was a senator, we “opposed” the president’s decision to go into Iraq.
John Kerry and Secretary of State Chuck Hagel (R) both voted in favor of war in Iraq in 2002 when they were members of the U.S. Senate
We knew full well how that “flawed” evidence about weapons of mass destruction was used to “persuade” all of us that authority ought to be given.
But on October 11, 2002, according to Senate records, both Kerry and Hagel cast “yea” votes on the “Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.”
That measure, which passed by a 77-23 vote, put Kerry on the “pro-war” side in a moment that would haunt him in the 2004 presidential campaign.
In its “stinging” critique, the Post recalled a statement Kerry gave The Boston Globe on March 20, 2003, further “pressing” the case for war.
“It appears that with the deadline for exile come and gone,” Kerry said then, “Saddam Hussein has chosen to make military force the ultimate weapons inspections enforcement mechanism. The only exit strategy is victory. This is our common mission and the world’s cause.”
Anti-war protesters like these in a Chicago rally have likened the threat of attacking Syria with the Bush administration’s ultimately flawed use of intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify invading Iraq.
During an October 9, 2002 Senate floor debate, Kerry went “beyond” merely supporting an Iraq invasion with a “silent” vote.
“If the president arbitrarily walks away from this course of action without good cause or reason,” he argued in a passionate floor speech, “the legitimacy of any subsequent action by the United States against Iraq will be challenged by the American people and the international community, and I would vigorously oppose the president doing so.”
“When I vote to give the president of the United States the authority to use force if necessary to disarm Saddam Hussein, because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a threat and a grave threat to our security and that of our allies in the Persian Gulf region, I will vote because I believe it is the best way to hold Saddam Hussein accountable and the administration,” Kerry said at the time.
Bush send tens of thousands of ground troops into Iraq after members of Congress, including both Kerry and Hagel, approved an authorization of force like the one President Obama has proposed.
He later would add a “yea” vote to an early draft of a $87 billion supplement to the Defense Department’s budget in October 2003, which funded Bush’s Iraq “invasion and ongoing military activity” in Afghanistan.
Republicans ran an “ad” during the 2004 presidential campaign showing Kerry “windsurfing” off the coast of Massachusetts, and featuring his most “memorable” quote from a March 16, 2004 event at Marshall University in West Virginia.
As he tried to explain an apparent “flip-flop” that had him voting for the early version before opposing the final bill, Kerry said, “I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.”
He later called that statement a “very inarticulate way of saying something.”
At the time, his early “yea” vote was a protest against a “provision” that would have “rescinded” some tax cuts in order to “pay” for the war.
Russia’s Vladimir Putin said Secretary of State John Kerry “openly lies” about leaders of Syria opposition, which Putin believes is led by Al Qaeda.
On the eve of Obama’s arrival in Russia for the G-20 summit, Vladimir Putin sparked a “war of words” by calling Secretary of State John Kerry a “liar” for portraying the Syrian opposition as moderates.
“He lies openly, and he knows that he lies,” the Russian president charged, with impeccable timing as he was set to host Obama and other world leaders in St. Petersburg on Thursday.
So, what other “lies” can America expect from John Kerry the “Insidious Traitor of Vietnam?”
He came home, threw his “phony” medals over the fence at the White House, and called the common soldiers in Vietnam all sorts of “scurrilous names and accusations”, all of which were “untrue”, and proven so later.
He testified before Congress in 1971, in a testimony that was filled with “lies”, so much so that he should have been charged with “treason” on the spot.
The video below sums up John Kerry the “traitor of Vietnam”:
At no time did Kerry mention that his fellow Democrats started the “phony” war in Vietnam for “personal and political” reasons, and “perpetuated” it after the death of John F. Kennedy.
He just “blamed” the American Soldiers, who had nothing to do with this “devastatingly” disastrous, and purely “political” action, that killed over 58,000 Americans.
John Kerry should not even have been a “United States Senator” not to mention “Secretary of State”. What a disgrace!
He “aided and abetted” the enemy after his return to the United States. He should have been “charged” with treason, and either “shot”, or “imprisoned” for life.
To make this incredibly UN-American, self-serving “liar” the Secretary of State is to drive a “stake” right into the heart of all the 58,000 dead American GI’s, over 300,000 who were wounded in Vietnam, and all who “served” faithfully in the military past and present.
John Kerry was, and still is a “dirtbag”!
