Kerry on C-SPAN right now.....HAMMERING BUSH.

[Justice Is Comin]

[Vincardog]

1. And about time. Kick some a$$ KERRY

[expatriot]

4. doncha mean 54 weeks too late? nt.

[Dr Ron]

34. Not at all

Note that today's statement includes quotations from his own previous speeches criticizing Bush (which many around here tend to ignore).

[still_one]

21. and all the democrats better get on board

[Roland99]

2. Just how is he hammring *?

[buzzard]

10. He seems to have his facts down and I think this is a transcript all

should read.

[cdb]

3. feed the cube rats, please??

whats he saying?

[ixion]

5. and the cable-less

:-)

[thefloyd]

7. Kerry said

Bush deliberately Misled America to a war that was not needed

[ixion]

45. woohoo!

thanks... :hi:

[ThomWV]

If The Asswipe Had Given This Speech Last July

We would have a much different world right this minute ... but he didn't. So much for Kerry.

[EVDebs]

6. Shades of the Winter Soldier Sen Foreign Relations speech ? Let's hope so

[Catamount]

8. Yes--hammering--good word!

If only..............

[TrueAmerican]

9. Perfect speech to call for IMPEACHMENT!

Time for IMPEACHMENT!

[porphyrian]

13. Whoa, Nelly. Wait until we re-take Congress at least. - n/t

[gasperc]

44. not so fast, who needs Cheney or Hasert or any other Repub

cripple him, don't do a conneticut and end up with a new govenor cruising to re-election, Jodi Rell I believe

[barb162]

11. GO KERRY!!!!!!!!!

[bigtree]

12. He's throwing it all on the floor

every stinking bit.

[buzzard]

14. He sure is and I so wish he had spoken like this last year.n/t

[bigtree]

16. He did. Do a search on bigtree in GD Politics

nt

[buzzard]

19. Thanks I will.n/t

[politicasista]

17. I do too. Shame on the corporate media eom

[Catamount]

22. Yeah, I wish so too, but think about it... at the time

the people still believed in shrub then, so now is better than not at all.
He's refuting everything the shrub said on Friday, even mentioning the first pres. debate and how he'd (shrub) said that Iraq was to blame for 9/11.
Now Dodd is speaking out too!

[jenndar]

33. I think that

in 2004 this would have sounded to many like he was smearing Bush. Now people are a lot closer to accepting these kinds of statements as the truth.

[thefloyd]

15. God bless Kerry

Keep going!!! Tell son of a bitch .

[ProSense]

18. Now is the time! Kerry is the man! Impeach the Pinocchio of the U.S.

Reposted from GD Politics cause its worth it.

[Sapphire Blue]

20. From earlier today... Sens. Reid & Levin on Accountability in Iraq - Video

Recent Programs...

Sens. Reid (D-NV) & Levin (D-MI) on Accountability in Iraq (11/14/2005)

http://www.c-span.org/homepage.asp?Cat=Current_Event&Code=Iraq&ShowVidNum=30&Rot_Cat_CD=US_Iraq&Rot_HT=&Rot_WD=&ShowVidDays=365&ShowVidDesc=&ArchiveDays=30

[texpatriot2004]

24. Thanks for the video link nm

[graywarrior]

23. Well well well. That was enjoyable.

[texpatriot2004]

25. Kerry Rocks! nm

[thefloyd]

26. Did anyone else get chills during Kerry's speech!!!

I have been waiting for the evidence for 3 year or more and you have too. Not only that Kerry got to bitch slap Bush for pissing on Kerry's honorable service in Vietnam.

[Justice Is Comin]

27. Boy that was a blasting.

Anyone who didn't see it, I would think this would be re-run sometime tonight. Be sure and see it if it is.

Called Bush a campaigner in chief instead of a commander in chief.

[Catamount]

28. Good catch!

[myrna minx]

30. It is pathetic that bu$h is in campaign mode

a year after the election. That speaks volumes.

[MissWaverly]

37. I think that's because he knows who the winner really was

He knows that he snuck in the back door of the WH in 00 and 04.

[New Earth]

29. I hope someone go this on video to post later

can't watch it from work and i wanna see so bad!

[Catamount]

31. can't you watch it on the span later?

[New Earth]

32. what time?

[Catamount]

35. Not sure Faye, but they repeat everything several times as a

rule!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

51. anytime... go here...

http://www.c-span.org/homepage.asp

scroll down to videos

they don't have Kerry's speech up yet, but... Sens. Reid (D-NV) & Levin (D-MI) on Accountability in Iraq (11/14/2005)
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[blm]

54. Still haven't seen it. I wish Kerry's site would put up the video.

.

[joanski0]

36. Kerry's speech was in support of

Carl Levin's amendment to make bush* have a plan to withdraw the troops. Harry Reid, Levin, and Durbin held a press conference about this before the Senate came into session today. Apparently, Frist and Warner will go along with it, with some exceptions.

Anyway, Levin called for more Floor speeches about this after the 5:30 vote today on something else.

[blm]

39. He's following up on the Strategy for Success in Iraq Act submitted last

Thursday as a bill in the Senate, as the media ignored his Iraq speech from 3 weeks ago where he originally laid out his withdrawal plan. There are also alot of points you may recognize from the campaign speeches and the debates.

Here it is in case you missed it.


Kerry Introduces “Strategy for Success in Iraq Act” in United States Senate
November 10th, 2005

Speaking a a short time ago on the Senate Floor, John Kerry Introduced the “Strategy for Success in Iraq Act.”

The “Strategy for Success in Iraq Act” Would Bring Home 20,000 Troops After Iraq Elections and Demands Benchmarks for Success.

Washington, D.C. — This afternoon, Senator John Kerry introduced in the Senate his plan to succeed in Iraq and bring the vast majority of our combat troops home in a reasonable timeframe tied to specific, responsible benchmarks to transfer responsibility to Iraqis — beginning with the draw down of 20,000 U.S. troops after successful Iraqi elections in December. These additional troops are in Iraq only for the purpose of providing security for the upcoming elections. If they remain in Iraq after that benchmark is achieved, it only exacerbates the sense of American occupation.

“We are entering a make-or-break six month period in Iraq. We need to be taking action now if we are ever going to bring our troops home within a reasonable timeframe from an Iraq that’s not permanently torn by irrepressible conflict,” Kerry said. “We cannot pull out precipitously or merely promise to stay ‘as long as it takes.’ There is a way forward that gives us the best chance both to salvage a difficult situation in Iraq, and to save American and Iraqi lives.”

Kerry’s legislation, the Strategy for Success in Iraq Act, lays out a comprehensive new strategy to complete the mission in Iraq and bring our troops home. Its goal is to undermine the insurgency by simultaneously pursing both a political settlement and the draw down of American forces linked to specific, responsible benchmarks. If followed, the process will be completed in 12-15 months.

Kerry’s plan calls for:

· The U.S. to begin a phased draw down of American troops as a series of military and political benchmarks is met, starting with a reduction of 20,000 troops over the holidays as the first benchmark -the successful completion of the December elections - is met.

· The U.S. to immediately make clear that we do not want permanent military bases in Iraq, or a large combat force on Iraqi soil indefinitely.

· The Administration to immediately give Congress and the American people a detailed plan for the transfer of military and police responsibilities on a sector by sector basis to Iraqis so the majority of our combat forces can be withdrawn — ideally by the end of next year.

· The Bush administration to prod the new Iraqi government to ask for a multinational force to help protect Iraq’s borders until a capable national army is formed. Such a force, if sanctioned by the United Nations, could attract participation by Iraq’s neighbors and countries like India and would be a critical step in stemming the tide of insurgents and money into Iraq, especially from Syria.

· The Pentagon to alter the deployment of American troops, keeping Special Operations forces pursuing specific intelligence leads and putting the vast majority of U.S. troops in rear guard, garrisoned status for security backup. We do not need to send young Americans on search and destroy missions that invite alienation and deepen the risks they face.

· The President to put the training of Iraqi security forces on a six month wartime footing and ensure that the Iraqi government has the budget to deploy them.

· The Bush administration to accept long standing offers by Egypt, Jordan, France and Germany to do more training.

· The administration to immediately call a conference of Iraq’s neighbors, Britain, Turkey and other key NATO allies, and Russia to implement a strategy to bring the parties in Iraq to a sustainable political compromise that includes mutual security guarantees among Iraqis.

· Iraq’s Sunni neighbors to set up a reconstruction fund specifically for the majority Sunni areas to show them the benefits of participating in the political process.

· The President to appoint a special envoy to bolster America’s diplomatic efforts.

· The U.S. to commit to a new regional security structure that includes improved security assistance programs and joint exercises.

· The U.S. to jumpstart our lagging reconstruction efforts by providing the necessary civilian personnel to do the job, standing up civil-military reconstruction teams throughout the country, streamlining the disbursement of funds to the provinces, expanding job creation programs for Iraqis, and strengthening the capacity of government ministries.

“We must send this critical signal to the Iraqi people - that we do not desire permanent occupation - and that Iraqis themselves must fight for Iraq. History shows that guns alone do not end an insurgency,” Kerry added.

Senior American commanders and officials have said the large U.S. military presence in Iraq feeds the insurgency. General George Casey, the top American military commander in Iraq, recently told Congress that our large military presence “feeds the notion of occupation” and “extends the amount of time that it will take for Iraqi security forces to become self-reliant.” Richard Nixon’s Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, breaking a thirty year silence, recently wrote, ‘’Our presence is what feeds the insurgency, and our gradual withdrawal would feed the confidence and the ability of average Iraqis to stand up to the insurgency.”

http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=1117

[oregonindy]

38. tomorrow he'll deny he made the speech. :P

[Catamount]

41. Don't be so mean---rejoice!

:bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce:

[Dr Ron]

43. He was trying to be funny but wrong analogy

Actually what will happen is that Mark Crispin Miller will claim Kerry said things which weren't in the speech and nobody else witnessed. Then Kerry's office will lissue a denial but many people here will still believe Miller's account.

[ProSense]

40. Kerry Castrates the Campaigner in Chief! n/t

[Justice Is Comin]

42. Spit even flew out of his mouth 4 or 5 times. lol.

If he had talked like that in the debates, we'd have President Kerry right now. Damn damn damn.

But with this kind of speech Bush and his fellow roaches are feeling the pressure that's for sure.

I kind of liken it to that movie A Fish Called Wanda. When K-k-k-ken was not so funny in his blacktop rolling machine crawling along after the guy realized he was cemented into the concrete and was about to be rolled into it.

Can you hear it junior putt..putt..putt..putt........

[ProSense]

46. That's funny. During the debates, I wished Kerry

had hauled off and decked Bush good---laid him right out on national TV. Then I came to my sense and realized that violence was not the answer: the media would have twisted it by reporting that Bush didn't deserve it.

[helderheid]

47. Diebold elected Bush. Kerry won. n/t

[stepnw1f]

49. You Got That Right

There aint no way Bush won either election and history will prove us right. We will make sure of that.

[helderheid]

55. is there a high five smilie? :)

[seabeyond]

52. sweat spews out of gore, spit flies from kerry, see what happens

when well mannered gentleman politicians run agianst bush, ...... bah hahahah about a year after the race. spit and sweat....

i like kerry. i like gor too

[Independent_Liberal]

53. Ouch!

:)

[helderheid]

48. is it this one?

RTWH: Sen. John Kerry in NH & Former Sen. Tom Daschle in Iowa
Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) is in New Hampshire at a rally for Manchester Mayor Bob Baines. Mayor Baines lost his bid for re-election when Manchester voters went to the polls on Nov. 8. The program continues with Fmr. Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD) at the Iowa Democratic Party Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in Des Moines.
11/13/2005: MANCHESTER, NH: 1 hr. : C-SPAN

[Roland99]

50. Is there a link to the video of this?