{"id":1856,"date":"2008-06-11T15:06:23","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T19:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2008-12-29T21:34:20","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T02:34:20","slug":"john-kerry-mccain-confused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1856","title":{"rendered":"John Kerry: McCain confused"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ben Smith at Politico<\/a> recounts John Kerry’s (who hasn’t signed his Form 180<\/a> yet) version of success in Iraq;<\/p>\n

John Kerry, who’s served in the past as Obama’s heavy-hitter on national security, expressed incredulity at McCain’s remark this morning that the timing of troops return is “not too important.”<\/p>\n

“It is unbelievably out of touch and inconsistent with the needs of Americans and particularly the families of troops who are over there. To them it\u2019s the most important thing in the world when they come home,” he said. “It\u2019s a policy for staying in Iraq.”<\/p>\n

Kerry and Obama aide Susan Rice also both said McCain is “confused” — a line some in McCain’s camp will surely take as a shot at the candidate’s age.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, we all know what you meant, Kerry. But let me remind you and Susie Rice of a little history;<\/p>\n

We left Europe in 1920 and we had to go back in 1944. That time we stayed and Europe has had it’s longest peaceful period in it’s history. We stayed in South Korea and Japan – same result. We left Vietnam (you remember) and a bloody reprisal and repression began that lasted decades. We left the Phillipines and they’re fighting guerrillas and terrorists. We left Iraq in 1991 and we had to go back in 2003. We left Somalia in 1993 and we’re still fighting to varying degrees there.<\/p>\n

If anyone is confused on the subject of our troops leaving Iraq, it’s been you – ever since you voted for the war before you voted against it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ben Smith at Politico recounts John Kerry’s (who hasn’t signed his Form 180 yet) version of … John Kerry: McCain confused<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856","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=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}