Kerry lambastes Bush: 'ineptly prosecuted war'

[struggle4progress]

Sen. John Kerry, breaking momentarily from his cautious approach to turmoil in Iraq, blasted President Bush on Wednesday for running an "extraordinarily mismanaged and ineptly prosecuted war" and strongly suggested Bush is partly to blame for abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison.
"They dismiss the Geneva Conventions, starting in Afghanistan and Guantanamo, so that the status of prisoners both legal and moral becomes ambiguous at best," the senator from Massachusetts told radio host Don Imus.
In his most expansive comments on U.S. mistreatment of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib, the presumptive Democratic nominee said this amounts to "major failures in command."
Asked if Kerry is assessing partial blame to Bush in the prison scandal, Rand Beers, a Kerry foreign policy adviser, said in an interview "undoubtedly that kind of ambiguity, yes, is a failure of leadership."
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http://www.sanmateocountytimes.com/Stories/0,1413,87~11268~2145518,00.html

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Good for Kerry, but does he think the Bush supporters will

understand the meaning of such words as 'ineptly' or 'ambiguous'?

[yardwork]

2. Really. Sometimes I just want to SHAKE Kerry by the shoulders.

Use short sentences, man! Stop using dependent clauses! You are not Henry James! This is not college!

[Mountainman]

4. I guess you have to ween people off of Bush screwed up style.

Imagine what the debates will be like!

Bush, "Well ahhhhhhhhh, they hate our freedom, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, terists, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, stay the course, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
9/11, ahhhhhhhhhhhh"


Kerry, "They dismiss the Geneva Conventions, starting in Afghanistan and Guantanamo, so that the status of prisoners both legal and moral becomes ambiguous at best,"

[NMDemDist2]

3. I'm glad Kerry isn't "dumbing down" for the Bushits

most American voters aren't stupid. If people actually bother to vote, they understand multisyllabic words just fine.

Kerry won't budge the 30% of the hard core RWer's and he shouldn't waste his breath trying.

[soleft]

5. Hi struggle4progress, please add your link to this existing thread

and continue the discussion here. Thanks!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=551402