{"id":15100,"date":"2009-10-17T18:06:14","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T23:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15100"},"modified":"2009-10-17T19:08:35","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T00:08:35","slug":"john-kerry-too-early-for-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15100","title":{"rendered":"John Kerry: Too early for surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/john-kerry-crawl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15113 aligncenter\" title=\"john-kerry-crawl\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/john-kerry-crawl.jpg\" alt=\"john-kerry-crawl\" width=\"185\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2009\/10\/17\/kerry-says-soon-send-troops-afghanistan\/\">Fox News Channel<\/a> writes that John Kerry, (who, by the way served in Vietnam, in case you hadn&#8217;t heard) has drawn on his vast experience as a combat commander and decided that the generals and planners on the ground in Afghanistan are wrong and it&#8217;s too soon to send more troops as those generals and planners have requested;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In taped remarks to air Sunday on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; Kerry said it would be misguided to have a troop buildup to achieve a mission of &#8220;good governance&#8221; when the election is not yet finished.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was in Kabul on Saturday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/63561-kerry-to-wh-no-afghanistan-troop-increase-until-election-crisis-is-solved\">The Hill<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/POLITICS\/10\/17\/kerry.afghanistan\/index.html\">CNN<\/a> quote Kerry a bit differently;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It would be entirely irresponsible for the president of the United States to commit more troops to this country<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>John Kerry, while serving as a lieutenant in Vietnam, reportedly fired a 40-mike-mike grenade into a bag of rice which, in turn, propelled a few kernels into the fleeing young lieutenant&#8217;s buttocks which resulted in the award of one of his three <del datetime=\"2009-10-17T23:58:53+00:00\">Silver Stars<\/del> Purple Hearts.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s the guy telling us how to deploy our forces these days.<\/p>\n<p>When would be a better time, Kerry? After next Fall&#8217;s election, maybe so your base doesn&#8217;t fall apart on you and the Republicans use your inability to make decisions in a timely manner against y&#8217;all?<\/p>\n<p>Who wants to be the last to die for John Kerry&#8217;s latest lies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News Channel writes that John Kerry, (who, by the way served in Vietnam, in case &hellip; <a title=\"John Kerry: Too early for surge\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15100\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John Kerry: Too early for surge<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,89,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-congress-sucks","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}