{"id":37432,"date":"2013-09-05T08:01:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T12:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37432"},"modified":"2013-09-05T09:53:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T13:53:46","slug":"jeff-duncan-vs-john-kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37432","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Duncan vs John Kerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congressman Jeff Duncan, Republican from South Carolina confronts John Kerry and highlights the point that the loss of American lives in Benghazi and in the Fast &#038; Furious scandals gives Americans pause when contemplating the use of military force in Syria;  <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/auduwvSw1rw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2013\/09\/04\/the-explosive-moments-when-a-gop-congressman-challenged-john-kerry-with-benghazi-questions-during-syria-hearing\/\">The Blaze<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBottom line is there\u2019s a need for accountability and trust-building from the administration,\u201d he said. \u201cThe administration has a credibility issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Kerry, your predecessor asked, \u2018What difference does it make now?\u2019\u201d he continued, referring then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton\u2019s infamous hearing outburst earlier this year. \u201cWell, this is the difference, Mr. Secretary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese issues call into question the accountability of this administration,\u201d Duncan said. \u201cIts commitment to the personnel on the ground, and the judgment that it uses when, making these determinations. The American people deserve answers before they move forward talking about military involvement in Syria.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, Kerry falls back on his three months in Vietnam with a videographer;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Secretary Kerry was not amused with Duncan\u2019s line of questioning and responded by citing his and his colleagues\u2019 (i.e. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Gen. Martin Dempsey) service records.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>He added, visibly annoyed: \u201cWe\u2019re talking about people being killed by gas and you want to go talk about Benghazi and Fast and Furious!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, John Kerry, we want answers to questions about AMERICANS who were killed in Benghazi and Fast &#038; Furious before we send more AMERICANS into a civil war that doesn&#8217;t concern us. Certainly, the deaths of SYRIANS by the use of chemical weapons is horrible, but it no way justifies the death of even one AMERICAN to punish the people who haven&#8217;t yet been proven to my mind to be responsible for those horrible deaths.<\/p>\n<p>This administration hasn&#8217;t been forthcoming in answering questions in the deaths of Americans in the past, so how can we trust them to send more Americans into harm&#8217;s way. I know we have at least one reader out there who can pass along our appreciation personally to Congressman Duncan, it&#8217;s abotu time someone started holding these people&#8217;s feet to the fire. And anytime John Kerry hides behind the events in Vietnam that are seared into his Swiss cheese memory is a wonderful time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressman Jeff Duncan, Republican from South Carolina confronts John Kerry and highlights the point that the &hellip; <a title=\"Jeff Duncan vs John Kerry\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37432\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jeff Duncan vs John Kerry<\/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":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-kerry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37432","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=37432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}