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Matthews trying to get JK to say he disagrees with HRC on Iraq.
JK answering the usual questions about why his proposals are different from Hillary’s—saying it provides for an over-the-horizon presence, but “ultimately, what you need is a new security arrangement for the region.”
Matthews asking about a long term presence in Iraq?
What is with Matthews and Sen Clinton?
Sheesh
JK says we needa new security arrangement in Iraq. Does not serve the US well to specify where to redeploy the troops at this time.
JK ‘I am NOT for a permanent base’
JK says it doesn’t think it serves the United States’ interests now to try to decide in advance where and how it will maintain a security presence in the region, says it will need to be part of a comprehensive plan worked out in conjunction with other countries in the region.
Also having to repeat his standard statements that yes, he does oppose any kind of permanent bases n Iraq because they will increase tension in the region.
Matthews: What was our biggest mistake?
JK: Greatest foreign policy disasters in modern history.
Iraq war one of the biggest foreign policy disaster; lack or planning, lack of troops, lack of allies.
Might one have made lemonade out of lemons? Yes, but it would have been necessary to accept Kofi Annan’s help offer right after the initial invasion.
JK says this whole thing was a total disaster—unjustified, unplanned, incompetently run. That being said, there might have been some steps early on in the process where listening to people like Kofi Annan and making some key decisions differently on stuff like de-Baathification, protecting ammunition dumps against looting, etc. might have made for a more successful series of subsequent events, but that opportunity was lost a long time ago.
Bush admin. broke rules on lessons of Vietnam on every front with this war.
On every count the rush to war without allies, the rush to war with planning, on every front the decisions made by this administration were disastrous in their consequences.
Rush to war without allies, rush to war on issue of last resort, basically violated every legal criteria.
Matthews asking about the lessons of Vietnam, and what are the lessons in Iraq
JK pointing to the speech he made before the IWR vote and how the admin rushed to war without any planning. The admin turned their back on the lessons of history, and now they’re repeating it.
Good interview. Too short, though.
Thank you all so much for doing this tonight. I don’t get MSNBC so you guys were my play-by-play announcers.
A very short interview, it seems, with Matthews asking the standard obvious questions and JK responding firmly, clearly, and totally in sync with what he’s been saying all along. What is different in the way he addresses these questions now than, say, last summer is that he is pulling no punches and inserting no qualifiers. He’s making his points succinctly and with great determination in interviews like this, even more so than yesterday’s appearance on Wallace’s Sunday morning show.
Nice Interview. Sen. Kerry repeated his stand that the US should have no long-term goal of having troops or bases in Iraq. Kerry said there are 3 reasons to have a greatly diminished presence of troops in Iraq for the short-term:
1: Provide training for Iraqi peacekeeping troops
2: Go after genuine terrorists and terrorist threats against US interests
3: Provide security for necessary personnel, such as embassy or diplomatic personnel.
Kerry strongly said that he does not want a permanent US presence in Iraq. Matthews tried to get Kerry into the weeds with a side discussion on how his plan differs from Sen. Clinton’s and how ‘out’ doesn’t mean out if you leave these people there for the conditions Kerry listed. Kerry again defended his position, stated that the amount of troops needed for the things deemed necessary is a fraction of the number of troops there today.
Nice strong interview. I don’t quite understand why Chris Matthews was so interested in splitting hairs about this, but Kerry again went through the IWR, how there were safeguards in it that would have brought in the international community among other things and how Bush just disregarded that.
Great job everyone!
I agree, Senator Kerry gave a great interview. I too don’t understand what was with Tweety asking the Senator to clarify and even defend Hillary’s positions on the question of long term US involvement in Iraq. Tweety should be asking Senator Clinton about HER positions. Maybe he was trying to see if there was any animosity between Clinton and Senator Kerry. In other words, playing media games.
Darn, missed another one. Planning a lobby day, Friday, to get an amendment to Holt’s Bill. People have started to relax about election reform, and they shouldn’t. There are enough holes in the Bill to drive a truck through.
Thanks for the interview content. Reads like a good audio link to watch.
I so remember tweety’s intolerable interviewing of the IWR vote and position all throughout the campaign. Going to war left no good options, ever.