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Kazuya Mishima wrote:John Kerry is bad enough, but SUSAN RICE!?!?!?!?!?!?

Inmates are running the fucking asylum. Between this and the Petraeus affair, I have lost all faith. Nobody knows what they are doing...communist niggers and their sycophants are running the show...sells stocks, buy guns, ammo, and canned goods. See you on the other side.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nat ... story.html

Turdacious wrote:Their names are only being floated because they have no chance of being confirmed.

Terry B. wrote:I thought that Kerry would get a position four years ago. He would be fine as Secretary of State - far better than Rice.

People mocked Romney's "binders of women" but perhaps Obama needs to flip through them because, outside of Hillary, his female appointees have nearly across the board been terrible.

Terry B. wrote:I thought that Kerry would get a position four years ago. He would be fine as Secretary of State.

Kazuya Mishima wrote:John Kerry is bad enough, but SUSAN RICE!?!?!?!?!?!?

Inmates are running the fucking asylum. Between this and the Petraeus affair, I have lost all faith. Nobody knows what they are doing...communist niggers and their sycophants are running the show...sells stocks, buy guns, ammo, and canned goods. See you on the other side.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nat ... story.html

Freki wrote:

Kazuya Mishima wrote:John Kerry is bad enough, but SUSAN RICE!?!?!?!?!?!?

Inmates are running the fucking asylum. Between this and the Petraeus affair, I have lost all faith. Nobody knows what they are doing...communist niggers and their sycophants are running the show...sells stocks, buy guns, ammo, and canned goods. See you on the other side.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nat ... story.html

Wrong "Kerrey". Recent carpet-bagging of a Senate seat and the well-deserved electoral ass whooping notwithstanding, he'd be better than the Patriots logo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Kerrey

Vietnam era SEAL
Medal of Honor winner
Gov
Senator
The wiki doesn't mention it but he rose to prominence after building several businesses

Bob Wildes wrote:Jim Webb would be a fine appointment as either SECDEF or Secretary Of State.

DARTH wrote:

Bob Wildes wrote:Jim Webb would be a fine appointment as either SECDEF or Secretary Of State.

For this administration he would be the best we could hope for.

I'd see him getting pissed off about any other future leaving people out to dry shit and making a stink. Obabma knows this, therefore no chance.

Military service

Kerrey served in the United States Navy as a SEAL from 1966 to 1969 during the Vietnam War. He lost the lower part of one leg in combat and received the Medal of Honor for action near Nha Trang Bay in South Vietnam on 14 March 1969.
Medal of Honor citation

His Medal of Honor citation reads:[8]
Medal of Honor

For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a SEAL team leader during action against enemy aggressor (Viet Cong) forces. Acting in response to reliable intelligence, Lt. (j.g.) Kerrey led his SEAL team on a mission to capture important members of the enemy's area political cadre known to be located on an island in the bay of Nha Trang. In order to surprise the enemy, he and his team scaled a 350-foot sheer cliff to place themselves above the ledge on which the enemy was located. Splitting his team in 2 elements and coordinating both, Lt. (jg.) Kerrey led his men in the treacherous downward descent to the enemy's camp. Just as they neared the end of their descent, intense enemy fire was directed at them, and Lt. (jg.) Kerrey received massive injuries from a grenade that exploded at his feet and threw him backward onto the jagged rocks. Although bleeding profusely and suffering great pain, he displayed outstanding courage and presence of mind in immediately directing his element's fire into the heart of the enemy camp. Utilizing his radio, Lt. (jg.) Kerrey called in the second element's fire support, which caught the confused Viet Cong in a devastating crossfire. After successfully suppressing the enemy's fire, and although immobilized by his multiple wounds, he continued to maintain calm, superlative control as he ordered his team to secure and defend an extraction site. Lt. (jg.) Kerrey resolutely directed his men, despite his near unconscious state, until he was eventually evacuated by helicopter. The havoc brought to the enemy by this very successful mission cannot be over-estimated. The enemy soldiers who were captured provided critical intelligence to the allied effort. Lt. (jg.) Kerrey's courageous and inspiring leadership, valiant fighting spirit, and tenacious devotion to duty in the face of almost overwhelming opposition sustain and enhance the finest traditions of the U.S. Naval Service.

Thanh Phong raid

In 2001, the New York Times Magazine and 60 Minutes II carried reports on an incident that occurred during Kerrey's Vietnam War service. On February 25, 1969, he led a Swift Boat raid on the isolated peasant village of Thanh Phong, Vietnam, targeting a Viet Cong leader that intelligence suggested would be present. The village was considered part of a free-fire zone by the U.S. military.

Kerrey's SEAL team first encountered a peasant house, or hooch. Later, according to Kerrey, the team was shot at from the village and returned fire, only to find after the battle that some of the deceased appeared to be under 18, clustered together in the center of the village. "The thing that I will remember until the day I die is walking in and finding, I don't know, 14 or so, I don't even know what the number was, women and children who were dead," Kerrey said in 1998. "I was expecting to find Vietcong soldiers with weapons, dead. Instead I found women and children."[9]

Kerrey expressed anguish and guilt over the incident:

You can never, can never get away from it. It darkens your day. I thought dying for your country was the worst thing that could happen to you, and I don't think it is. I think killing for your country can be a lot worse.[10]

Kerrey was awarded a Bronze Star for the raid on Thanh Phong. The citation for the medal reads, "The net result of his patrol was 21 Viet Cong killed, two hooches destroyed and two enemy weapons captured."[9]

baffled wrote:

Terry B. wrote:I thought that Kerry would get a position four years ago. He would be fine as Secretary of State - far better than Rice.

People mocked Romney's "binders of women" but perhaps Obama needs to flip through them because, outside of Hillary, his female appointees have nearly across the board been terrible.

Read through that again, then edit your post accordingly.