Can someone please punch John Kerry in the face for me? Look at what this ass said yesterday:
“No one in the United States should try to over-hype this election. This election is a sort of demarcation point, and what really counts now is the effort to have a legitimate political reconciliation, and it's going to take a massive diplomatic effort and a much more significant outreach to the international community than this administration has been willing to engage in.”When asked by Tim Russert of Meet the Press whether the world
community would see the election as legitimate, Senator Kerry responded:
“A kind of legitimacy--I mean, it's hard to say that something is legitimate when a whole portion of the country can't vote and doesn't vote.”When you consider the Iraqis had an estimated voter turnout of 60% in their first ever election in about 50 years amid the very real threat of violence, and when you consider how US turnout for our election in 2004 was LESS than 60%, (For US election turnout information, go here.)how can you not be impressed? And if this Iraq vote is illegitimate, how do you explain the legitimacy of US elections during Jim Crow laws? Was the election of President Lincoln in 1864 legitimate? The 11 states that seceded didn't vote for him, yet still had them as their president (albeit for a brief time) after the Union won. What about before women had the right to vote?
For the love of Christ, what the hell more do you want?! The vote in Iraq means that the United States is one step closer to bringing the troops home! The vote in Iraq means a bastion of freedom and democracy in the heart of brutal dictatorial regimes! I can just imagine the crap that would've come out of Kerry's (or Kennedy's or Boxer's or Byrd's) mouth if Bush had the election postponed for legitimacy's sake. I loathe to think what yesterday would've been like if Howard Dean had won the 2004 election! You can't fool me, you little liberal pricks! Admit you were wrong and move on!
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