Kerry: ‘It’s Immoral for Old Men to Send Young Americans to Fight and Die'

[kerrygoddess]

John Kerry: ‘It’s Immoral for Old Men to Send Young Americans to Fight and Die in Conflict With a Strategy That is Failing’
September 7th, 2006 @ 12:19 am

John Kerry let it rip on the Senate Floor Wednesday in the debate on a “no-confidence vote on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.” The Republican controlled Senate blocked the “no-confidence vote” but not before John Kerry and other Dems had their say.

…Democrats blasted Rumsfeld as a key architect of the war, they said the problem was broader than the secretary and that Bush must abandon failing policies.

John Kerry, blasted Rumsfeld for his “speech to the American Legion in which he likened critics of the administration’s Iraq policies to those who appeased Nazi Germany before World War Two,” calling it a “low and ugly political speech, smearing those who dissent from the catastrophic policy.”

Kerry added, “I think it’s immoral for old men to send young Americans to fight and die in conflict with a strategy that is failing, and a mission that has not weakened terrorism but strengthened it.”

The full transcript of John Kerry’s floor speech on Rumsfeld is available here - http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=4100#more-4100

[Kiouni]

1. gotta love that man

[tiptoe]

2. K & R!

let the words be heard...recommended.

[Sensitivity]

3. Wish he would take hold of the party and end the cacophony

[darkmaestro019]

4. (sob)

I've said this a million times here I think, but I STILL can't see quotes like that without remembering watching Kerry annihilate Dubya in the debate and thinking how much safer and better and more sane I'd feel if he were in charge of America....

Anyone familiar with Madeline L'Engle? The day I heard Bush had been re-installed I felt like we were officially in a Projection.

[CarolNYC]

5. Reminds me of one of my favorite George McGovern quotes...

""I'm sick and tired of old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."

So true...Good on ya, John.

[Vinca]

6. Especially old men who are chickenhawks. nt

[blm]

8. Especially old men who are lining their bank accounts with war cash

that is more important to them than any life of a soldier or innocent citizen.

[elehhhhna]

7. It will now be extra-super ironic when the Old Man (Rummy) cuts & runs

from this important mission due to a ...waut for it...sore shoulder. Waah.

[IndianaGreen]

9. George McGovern used similar words when Nixon invaded Cambodia

As I recall, McGovern said that he was tired of seeing old men send young men to die in wars.

I fell in love with McGovern when he said those words about a war that I hated.

Unlike Nixon ("I am the President"), McGovern is a highly decorated war hero who knew the horrors of war first hand.

Unlike Bush (I am the Decider"), Kerry is also a decorated war hero.

Do you see a pattern in here?