Kerry - An American defeatist

Yes, It's the same old Kerry. Next it'll be Hanoi Jane siding with him (After the election, of course). At least he's consistent on this matter, always taking the enemy's point of view. A Flip-Flop would be welcome but it won't happen.

John Kerry cannot change his spots, Once a Traitor, always a Traitor

Just posted this at Liberating Iraq blog ...

The post-debate reverberations continue. Bush won the debate says Deb Saunders, Dick Morris opines Kerry won on style, Bush won on substance. Hugh Hewitt's scorecard and his big takeaway - "Global Test" is a big problem. Rush called that Kerry's "Kitty Dukakis" moment. Rocky Mountain News notes that Kerry's 20 year weak-on-defense record was not focussed on. I think of when Zell Miller spoke of at the GOP convention. It is indeed a pity that President Bush didnt rebut Kerry's 'body armor' blather by reciting the litany:

It is not their patriotism, it is their judgment that has been so sorely lacking. They claimed Carter's pacifism would lead to peace. They were wrong. They claimed Reagan's defense buildup would lead to war. They were wrong.

And no pair has been more wrong, more loudly, more often than the two Senators from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy and John Kerry. Together, Kennedy and Kerry have opposed the very weapons system that won the Cold War and that are now winning the war on terror.

Listing all the weapon systems that Senator Kerry tried his best to shut down sounds like an auctioneer selling off our national security.

But Americans need to know the facts.

The B-1 bomber, that Senator Kerry opposed, dropped 40 percent of the bombs in the first six months of Enduring Freedom. The B-2 bomber, that Senator Kerry opposed, delivered air strikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan and Hussein's command post in Iraq. The F-14A Tomcats, that Senator Kerry opposed, shot down Gadhafi's Libyan MiGs over the Gulf of Sidra.

The modernized F-14D, that Senator Kerry opposed, delivered missile strikes against Tora Bora.

The Apache helicopter, that Senator Kerry opposed, took out those Republican Guard tanks in Kuwait in the Gulf War. The F-15 Eagles, that Senator Kerry opposed, flew cover over our Nation's capital and this very city after 9/11.

I could go on and on and on -- against the Patriot Missile that shot down Saddam Hussein's scud missiles over Israel; against the Aegis air-defense cruiser; against the Strategic Defense Initiative; against the Trident missile, against, against, against.

This is the man who wants to be the commander in chief of our U.S. Armed Forces? U.S. forces armed with what? Spit balls?

Note the Tora Bora reference. Kerry may have borrowed the 'outsourcing' and Tora Bora critique from The Atlantic Monthly. But wherever he got it, it is wrong. Powell, Franks, and host of others in that operation refuted Kerry's claim; Tora Bora was a success that US forces were intimitely involved with Afghan forces, that ground to dust over 1000 enemy. CentCom debuty Cmdr General DeLong refuted it as well:

KMC: General welcome to the Kevin McCullough Show

DeLong: Kevin its a pleasure to be here.

KMC: When you hear John Kerry last night, in the debate, talking about the robbing of Afghanistan to serve Iraq...I'm going to play this clip, I want you to hear this comment and then I'd like to get your reaction to it.

CLIP: (John Kerry) "The President made the judgement to divert forces from under General Tommy Franks from Afghanistan before the Congress even approved it, to begin to prepare to go to war in Iraq."

KMC: That assertion he (Kerry) made multiple times throughout the debate last night, Lt. General Michael DeLong, former number two at CentCom - was that your experience or did you have knowledge of that to be true? That the Bush Administration robbed Afghanistan to pay Iraq - so to speak?

DeLong: It's completely untrue, what happened is...The way we went to war in Afghanistan, first of all was different than the Soviets. We used Afghan forces with our ground forces on purpose so that they'd be the heroes of the war. So that they would feel good about themselves in the end, and be able to have a country united. We never had more than around 9000 soldiers there at any one time and today there is 10,000. So I can say unequivocally not one single troop, nor airplane, nor piece of equipment left Afghanistan to go to Iraq. It was a conscious decision on General Franks, the President and Sec. Rumsfelds part to insure that the war on terrorism not only stayed at its current rate but accelerated because going into Iraq, we did not know how that would make the terrorists react. So we went overboard. And the same day we went into Iraq we carried out a huge, huge operation in Afghanistan. So it (the statement by Kerry) is NOT correct.

KMC: As a former commander of those operations how do you personally feel when you hear a man who is seeking the office of Commander-In-Chief get something so basic in terms of the raw facts of the matter, that's so easily provable - so wrong?

DeLong: Well, first of all its an election year. He's running for President - he doesn't have the Presidential background to fall back on. He's picking and choosing and taking things out of context, and I feel sorry that that's the way he has to go. And if I thought those were things he really meant I'd take offense.

And for what it's worth General Franks roundly disputed Kerry on the

Practically every issue that Kerry touched on in the debate has these kinds of 'gotcha' elements. "Facts" that are arguable, or worse, simply untrue. Kerry has created a minefield with his own statements; it's rich fodder for the Bush campaign: GOP has Kerry's top ten flip flops and Over a dozen factual errors or flip-flops from Kerry. It's mindboggling how erroneous a Senator could be. Kerry was factually wrong about the subways at the GOP convention, a 'factiod' that means nothing; why did Kerry lie/mis-state unnecessarily on that?

On Iraq, some Kerry blowback: Right War, Right Place, Right Time says Debra Burlingame: "Kerry is wrong: Iraq is central to defeating al Qaeda". She's a 9/11 widow. Hanson says Kerry is is "a captive of the pulse of the battlefield" and predicts strategic disaster that follows from such vaciallation. A clear Kerry flip-flop is noted:

... 2 minutes later ... LEHRER: Are Americans now dying in Iraq for a mistake?

KERRY: No, and they don't have to,...

RCP says: "You do not have to have a PhD in logic to notice the egregious contradiction here. If your view is that invading Iraq was a mistake and U.S. soldiers are dying in Iraq (which they are) then our brave troops are, in fact, dying for a mistake."

Indeed. You are still back to square one on Iraq, even after a debate where many claimed that Kerry spoke 'clearly'. He did. He clearly fudged it. The question I still have and which convinces me that Kerry would be a disaster as President, at least with respect to our policy on Iraq. His criticism and calling the war a mistake, his lamenting the cost, his base consisting of voters who want to bug out of Iraq, all point to him being unable to do what it takes to win in Iraq.

Kerry's Iraq problem though, can now be viewed as part of Kerry's overall problem with leading the U.S. in a time of war; Kerry flunks leadership with his Global Test. Kerry thinks global popularity, not U.S. national security interests should be the gating factor for deciding when to intervene. Rush Limbaugh calls it Kerry's "Kitty Dukakis moment". People worried more about style and the media desperate to jump-start Kerry's campaign will say he won. But, look under the hood on his statements, and Kerry's debate performance confirms that he is unfit to lead at this time, in the War on Terror, a time when hard choices need to be made to put US security first, even when it may disturb the comity with some other nations. Bush did the right thing to liberate Iraq from Saddam Hussein and remove him from power. . Kerry is wrong to say that it was a mistake. It was no mistake, but a key and correct part of the war on terror.

K...Ke....Kerry's an American?

huh...! and all this time i thought he was french !

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Hmmmmmm is this a slap at God or Kerry these new people are strange

And a "Global Pap Test" to boot. What a gift.

Well look at the basic message of Kerry; He says Bush shouldn`t be fighting terror and he says Bush is not fighting terror. Kerrys whole message is one big flip-flop. Kerry is a freggin` nut job and his only true message is he wants to play President for no other reason than to stroke his sociopathic ego. Kerry only cares about Kerry. Tah-ray-zuh`s poodle boy wants a hobby and if he gets that "hobby" he will quickly get bored with it and do absolutely nothing just like he does as Senator.

[ Kerry - An American defeatist ]

No.. he's not.. he's simply a liar... belongs to party built on lies.. and resorts to half truth reluctantly if forced.

Welcome to Free Republic.

1864 all over again. Kerry playing the McClellan role. Hopefully, the country realizes Kerry like McClellan is on the wrong side of history. Of course, Kerry is on every side, so I don't know. Too many people are allowed to vote that should not be. Especially all those dead people.

Thanks for the ping!