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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nAs they say, the bloom is off the rose at the Washington Post<\/a> when they let Marc Thiessen, former Bush speechwriter beat up John Kerry like this;<\/p>\n When John Kerry ran for president in 2004, he dismissed the allies fighting alongside the United States in Iraq as a \u201ctrumped-up, so-called coalition of the bribed, the coerced, the bought and the extorted.\u201d<\/p>\n Now, as secretary of state, Kerry is going hat-in-hand to many of the same nations he insulted, asking them to join a U.S.-led coalition in Iraq. <\/p>\n […]<\/p>\n Kerry mocked the contributions of smaller nations, declaring \u201cWhen they talk about a coalition, that\u2019s the phoniest thing I ever heard. You\u2019ve got 500 troops here, 500 troops there.\u201d Never mind he\u2019s now working for a president who just used a prime-time address to announce that he is deploying \u2014 wait for it \u2014 475 troops to Iraq (but insists they will not have a \u201ccombat role\u201d). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n Yeah, his State Department spokesperson won’t name the countries that make up his 40-country coalition and he’s only named two in public, so I’m sure this will be epic. From CNN<\/a>;<\/p>\n Just hours after an ISIL spokesman called on the group\u2019s foreign fighters to carry out attacks on coalition countries led by the United States in the battle against the terrorist group, a senior Obama administration official warned the international community is not prepared to respond to such threats.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re not structured that way effectively right now\u201d to respond to that kind of call, the official said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n But, I’m sure John Kerry can pull them together, especially since his 2004 presidential campaign revolved around the fact that they were useless. As time goes by, we get to see how big that bullet was that we dodged ten years ago.<\/p>\n Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"