Last week, it was Howard Dean asserting that if Democrats were in the White House the Middle East wouldn’t be at war, this weekend it was 2004 Presidential candidate John Kerry who goes into full Harry Turtledove mode, asserting that Israel and Hezbollah would not be at war today if only he’d been elected in 2004.
U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D- Mass., who was in town Sunday to help Gov. Jennifer Granholm campaign for her re-election bid, took time to take a jab at the Bush administration for its lack of leadership in the Israeli-Lebanon conflict.
“If I was president, this wouldn’t have happened,” said Kerry during a noon stop at Honest John’s bar and grill in Detroit’s Cass Corridor.
And exactly how would you have been able to guarantee this thankfully-not-President-Kerry ? Apparently, by being the war hawk we never knew he was:
Hezbollah guerillas should have been targeted with other terrorist organizations, such as al-Qaida and the Taliban, which operate in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Kerry said. However, Bush, has focused military strength on Iraq.
“This is about American security and Bush has failed. He has made it so much worse because of his lack of reality in going into Iraq.?We have to destroy Hezbollah,” he said.
Because, you see, John Kerry was for invading the Bekaa Valley before he was against it.
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These guys just never cease to amaze me. Via the Detroit News (emphasis added):
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If I was president, this wouldn’t have happened,” said Kerry during a noon stop at Honest John’s bar and grill in Detroit’s Cass Corridor. Via
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