John F. Kerry, Suuuuuper Geeeeenius

Refuting John Kerry is like…well, shooting skeet.

Just look at how Stephen Hayes sets him up and knocks him down:

Kerry campaign: "There was no terrorism in Iraq before we went to war."

CIA Analysis, January 2003: Iraqi Support for Terrorism, (p. 314 of Senate Intel Report): "Iraq has a long history of supporting terrorism…Iraq continues to be a safe haven, transit point, or operational node for groups and individuals who direct violence against the United States, Israel and other allies."

Bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee Report (p. 315): "The CIA provided 78 reports, from multiple sources, [redacted] documenting instances in which the Iraqi regime either trained operatives for attacks or dispatched them to carry out attacks."

Bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee Report (p. 316): "Iraq continued to participate in terrorist attacks throughout the 1990s…From 1996 to 2003, the [Iraqi Intelligence Service] focused its terrorist activities on western interests, particularly against the U.S. and Israel…Throughout 2002, the [Iraqi Intelligence Service] was becoming increasingly aggressive in planning attacks against U.S. interests. The CIA provided eight reports to support this assessment."

Bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee Report (p. 331): "Twelve reports received [redacted] from sources that the CIA described as having varying reliability, cited Iraq or Iraqi national involvement in al Qaeda's [chemical, biological, nuclear] CBW efforts."

The 9/11 Commission Report (p. 66): "In March 1998, after bin Laden's public fatwa against the United States, two al Qaeda members reportedly went to Iraq to meet with Iraq Intelligence. In July, an Iraqi delegation traveled to Afghanistan to meet first with the Taliban and then with bin Laden."

Bear in mind that Team Kerry’s baldly absurd statement quoted above was a “clarification” of his comment early last week that the soldiers who have died in Iraq have done so "on behalf of freedom in the war on terror."

Didja ever see that road-runner cartoon where Wile E. Coyote tried to catch the RR by slathering glue all over a boomerang and throwing it at him, but while Wile E.’s arm was cocked to let it fly, the glue flowed down onto his hand, so when he threw it, it took him with it? And then he spent almost the balance of the ‘toon trying to extricate himself, and he ended up with the boomerang plastered to his buttocks and legs and his hands glued to the top of his head?

And do you remember where he ended up?

John Kerry looks and sounds an awful lot like Wile E., doesn’t he?

“My name is John F. Kerry, suuuuuper geeeeenius.”