{"id":285,"date":"2004-10-26T00:29:11","date_gmt":"2004-10-26T05:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=285"},"modified":"2004-10-26T00:30:13","modified_gmt":"2004-10-26T05:30:13","slug":"kerry-praises-polands-help-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"Kerry Praises Poland’s Help in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having already screwed them over by neglecting their valued contributions to date in Iraq, self-implied diplomat extraodinaire John Kerry has decided to belatedly offer the brave people of Poland a reach-around for their troubles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry thanked Poland in a newspaper interview published Monday for its military involvement in Iraq and promised Polish businesses a chance for lucrative reconstruction contracts there should he win the Nov. 2 election.<\/p>\n

The comments, published in the Gazeta Wyborcza daily, came after President Aleksander Kwasniewski criticized Kerry for allegedly playing down the Poles’ contribution to the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq.<\/p>\n

“I am grateful to Poland for standing by the Euro-American partnership these last few years and for its courageous contributions to Iraq,” Kerry said in the interview, which was also carried by Nowy Dziennik, a Polish language paper published in the United States. “I will not forget that.”<\/p>\n

….<\/p>\n

Polish troops took part in the invasion last year, and the country now commands an international security force in central Iraq.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

By “not forget that,” I’ll assume Kerry means “not forget that again<\/em>.” <\/p>\n

Nice of him to include the promise of a bribe of “a chance for lucrative reconstruction contracts” to a nation he included in his derisive “coalition of the bribed and coerced.” If one ignores such areas as diplomacy, military, history, international affairs, domestic policy and economics, Kerry might not be the total jackass he seems to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having already screwed them over by neglecting their valued contributions to date in Iraq, self-implied diplomat extraodinaire John Kerry has decided to belatedly offer the brave people of Poland a reach-around for their troubles. Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry thanked Poland in a newspaper interview published Monday for its military involvement in Iraq and promised […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-04","category-europe","category-general","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}