Yesterday, in front of the House Panel, Kerry said he'd supported the Panama and Grenada

[cali]

military actions.

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“I’m going to finish, Congressman. I am going to finish,” said Kerry. “When I was in the United States Senate, I supported military action in any number of occasions, including Grenada, Panama — I can run a list of them. And I am not going to sit here and be told by you that I don’t have a sense of what the judgment is with respect to this,” he said angrily.

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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/09/secretary-kerry-no-place-for-benghazi-in-syria-debate/

Ack. Grenada and Panama? That led me to wondering: Did Kerry during his tenure in the Senate oppose any military action taken by the U.S.? I know there was no vote in the Congress on either "Operation Urgent Fury" or "Operation Just Cause", but still, I found his adamant expression of support for both of those misbegotten military actions, surprising.

[cali]

1. kick

[JI7]

2. i thought he wasn't in the Senate with Grenada

there is record of him criticizing it. but maybe he meant something different from what i saw.

[Bluenorthwest]

3. Grenada was 1983, Kerry first elected to Senate in 1985.

No matter how angry he sounded, he was not in the Senate for Grenada. The only war he has ever opposed was the one he was in. But I did not realize he was losing his memory.

[ProSense]

4. He often says that:

The thrust of Kerry's candidacy, however, was an attack on Reagan's economic, foreign, and military policies.

Kerry was scornful, for instance, of the Grenada invasion, launched by Reagan the previous October to evacuate US medical students after a Marxist-backed military coup on the Caribbean island.

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"The invasion of Grenada represents the Reagan policy of substituting public relations for diplomatic relations . . . no substantial threat to US interests existed and American lives were not endangered . . . The invasion represented a bully's show of force against a weak Third World nation. The invasion only served to heighten world tensions and further strain brittle US/Soviet and North/South relations."

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He draws a parallel to his recent stance on Iraq. "I mean, I supported disarming Saddam Hussein, but I was critical of the administration and how it did its diplomacy and so forth," he explained of a position critics say is a telling example of Kerry's straddling.

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http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/061903.shtml