Friday, April 30, 2004
Kerry Flip-flops on Missing WMDs
"Tuesday night on MSNBC's "Hardball," Kerry:
"It appears, as they peel away the weapons of mass destruction issue - and we may yet find them, Look, I want to make it clear. Who knows if a month from now, three months from now, you find some weapons? You may."
"It's quite a turnaround for Kerry, who just a few weeks ago was complaining:
"George Bush sold us on going to war with Iraq based on the threat of weapons of mass destruction. But we still haven't found them. ... We were misled about weapons of mass destruction."
Key Kerry backer Howard Dean has been even more adamant, insisting to CNN earlier this month:
"There were no weapons of mass destruction. ... This is Bushgate, which is far more serious than Watergate."
"Kerry's reversal came a day after the Jordanian government announced that WMDs from Syria were part of an al-Qaida plot to kill 80,000 people in Amman with poison gas. At least one of the plotters has admitted he was trained in Iraq."
"The top Democrat's flip-flop also followed news that a suspected weapons of mass destruction production facility in Baghdad - disguised as a perfume factory - unexpectedly blew up, killing two GIs who were searching the plant."
Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:
Kerry's Convolutions on WMDs
"After train wrecks on Meet the Press and Good Morning America, John Kerry took his tattered credibility to the friendly confines of Hardball, where a sympathetic and compliant Chris Matthews did his very best to help Kerry make it through at least one interview without wandering into bizarre asides, prolix dependent clauses, and baffling hedges."
"Chris Matthews failed. On the bizarre side of the ledger, Kerry ended the interview by bringing up the fact that Karen Hughes had been born in Paris."
"Kerry acknowledges that WMD may yet be found. This admission destroys the left's critique of the war and months of "Bush lied!" rantings from the MoveOn.org swamp."
"Kerry knows what everyone with a memory knows: which is that Saddam had WMD and the world agreed he had them. Perhaps they were destroyed, perhaps hidden, perhaps trucked to Syria, but he had them."
"Thank you, Mr. Kerry, for your only contribution to the public's understanding of the war to date."
"Tuesday night on MSNBC's "Hardball," Kerry:
"It appears, as they peel away the weapons of mass destruction issue - and we may yet find them, Look, I want to make it clear. Who knows if a month from now, three months from now, you find some weapons? You may."
"It's quite a turnaround for Kerry, who just a few weeks ago was complaining:
"George Bush sold us on going to war with Iraq based on the threat of weapons of mass destruction. But we still haven't found them. ... We were misled about weapons of mass destruction."
Key Kerry backer Howard Dean has been even more adamant, insisting to CNN earlier this month:
"There were no weapons of mass destruction. ... This is Bushgate, which is far more serious than Watergate."
"Kerry's reversal came a day after the Jordanian government announced that WMDs from Syria were part of an al-Qaida plot to kill 80,000 people in Amman with poison gas. At least one of the plotters has admitted he was trained in Iraq."
"The top Democrat's flip-flop also followed news that a suspected weapons of mass destruction production facility in Baghdad - disguised as a perfume factory - unexpectedly blew up, killing two GIs who were searching the plant."
Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:
Kerry's Convolutions on WMDs
"After train wrecks on Meet the Press and Good Morning America, John Kerry took his tattered credibility to the friendly confines of Hardball, where a sympathetic and compliant Chris Matthews did his very best to help Kerry make it through at least one interview without wandering into bizarre asides, prolix dependent clauses, and baffling hedges."
"Chris Matthews failed. On the bizarre side of the ledger, Kerry ended the interview by bringing up the fact that Karen Hughes had been born in Paris."
"Kerry acknowledges that WMD may yet be found. This admission destroys the left's critique of the war and months of "Bush lied!" rantings from the MoveOn.org swamp."
"Kerry knows what everyone with a memory knows: which is that Saddam had WMD and the world agreed he had them. Perhaps they were destroyed, perhaps hidden, perhaps trucked to Syria, but he had them."
"Thank you, Mr. Kerry, for your only contribution to the public's understanding of the war to date."
