it hard to remember, but if it wasn't for 100,000 votes in ohio, this retard would have been president.

even the obamster plans on leaving 10K guys in afghanistan. I guess they don't count. but he's totally ignoring the fact that we didn't have any guys in afghanistan when we were attacked on 9/11, on those are the kinds of war criminals we released.

Quote:Kerry: "Baloney" that releasing Taliban detainees too risky to US troops

Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday the Taliban detainees released in a prison swap for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl could indeed return to terrorism, but largely dismissed the argument that the deal will put U.S. troops further at risk.

Kerry told CNN’s “State of the Union” the argument that troops in Afghanistan would be more at risk was “baloney” now that the Taliban commanders have been released, particularly because the United States is winding down its military presence in that country.

“Our combat role in Afghanistan is over,” Kerry said. "We’re going to have very few people in that kind of position.”

He argued the detainees, released June 3 to the Qatar government, could return to battle -- but with a big risk for deadly consequences.

“I just think that’s a lot of baloney because, to whatever degree it may be true, they will wind up putting themselves at the mercy of those people who are very effective (at) who are there, who will deal with those guys,” Kerry said.

“I am not telling you that they don’t have some ability at some point to go back and get involved, but they also have an ability to get killed if they do that,” he continued.

Linky

Lurch has no credibility with anything military.

(06-08-2014 06:07 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  Lurch has no credibility with anything military.

my fave kerry line; "what, three purple hearts, and no limp?"

Let's hope for that idiot's sake that comment doesn't come back to haunt him.

Kerry is a dim bulb. I guess he fails to understand the real problem with this prisoner exchange. The Taliban has 5 knew heroes to worship and fuel their nonsense.

lol. kerry is giving Vice President Drain Bamage a real run for his money for being the biggest laughing stock in the administration.

new daily talking point number 5, I think; "we're gonna kill them with drones". and I love the way he's all hush-hush-top-secret from the mouth breathers that couldn't tell us precisely who killed bin laden fast enough.

Quote:However, Kerry told CNN the men were also being closed monitored by the US, which had "the ability to do things" if the terms of the arrangement with Qatar were violated. Although he did not overtly refer to drone strikes, he said the five men would be liable to be killed by the US if they returned to the ranks of the Taliban.

“I am not telling you they don’t have the ability to go back and get involved [in the Afghan conflict],” he said. “But they also have an ability to get killed doing that. I don’t think anybody should doubt the capacity of the United States of America to protect Americans.”

Asked if that meant the US would kill the men, Kerry replied: “The president has always said he will do whatever is necessary in order to protect the United States of America … so these guys pick a fight with us in the future, now, or at any time, at enormous risk. We have proven what we are capable of doing with the core al-Qaida in west Pakistan, Afghanistan.”

Linky

I'm not sure how he could say this with a straight face:

"No one should doubt the capacity of America to protect Americans"

I would have traded Kerry for the deserter.

(06-09-2014 12:30 AM)GoApps70 Wrote:  I would have traded Kerry for the deserter.

I still vote for the full trade of Kerry, Reid, Pelosi, Biden, and Obama for Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi.

That's a 5-for-1 I could like :)