Posted on 10/01/2004 6:10:21 AM PDT by xzins
In order of priority, Kerry's major mistakes and gaffes from last night. The first few clearly disqualify him from being president...ever...
1. Putting Nuclear Fuel in the hands of the Ayatollah of Iran. Kerry actually suggested this last night and it is mind-boggling. Iran is the major supporter of terrorism in the world. At a minimum, we are giving them material for a dirty bomb.
2. The major issue confronting America is proliferation of WMDs, to include nuclear, into the hands of Terrorists, but Kerry sees nuclear proliferation only as the major issue...without regard to the terrorists who killed 3000 on 9/11 or the nation in question. He doesn't know why the war is taking place. He puts Iceland in the same category as Al Qaeda.
3. Kerry requires a Global Test before we protect America. Pres. Bush caught this immediately and called it for the critical error in protecting America that it is.
4. Kerry denies a multi-lateral approach to N. Korea. He has previously said that Pres. Bush FAILED by not pursing a multi-lateral approach in Iraq. In Iraq, Pres. Bush has most of our major allies supporting us and providing soldiers. In N. Korea he has brought the China, Russia, Japan, and S. Korea into partnership to pressure N. Korea and Kerry sasy NO MULTI-LATERAL. This flip-flop is right on national TV and it goes unnoticed.
5. Kerry continued to demean the contribution of our allies by calling into question their sacrifice. He counted numbers without any regard for the size and other commitments of those other armies.
6. Kerry again flip-flopped on Iraq saying early in the debate that Saddam Hussein should be gone and simultaneously saying that the mission was a mistake.
7. Kerry continued to demean the mission in Iraq and in doing so he demeans the sacrifice of the trooops, because Kerry consistently questioned the mission itself.
8. Kerry placed Treblinka, the WWII Nazi death camp, in Moscow. That's easily as bad as spelling potato incorrectly.
I haven't seen it mentioned elsewhere, but I question Kerry's statement that 90% of the casualties in Iraq have been Americans. I doubt if the number is over 8 or 9%.
Clearly at least 90% of the casualties in Iraq have been Iraqis, with some Iranians, Syrians and Jordanians thrown in for good measure.
John F*ckin' has more flip-flops and miscues than a cat has nine lives.
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1. Putting Nuclear Fuel in the hands of the Ayatollah of Iran. Kerry actually suggested this last night and it is mind-boggling. Iran is the major supporter of terrorism in the world. At a minimum, we are giving them material for a dirty bomb.
This one to me was most alarming...it needs to be repeated as much as possible. Many are afraid of what is going on in Iran and Kerry wants to supply the fuel for them and then wait and see if we can trust them. What a recipe for disaster.
Good point.
Even if talking of only the allies, it is more than accurate to depict the Iraqi military losses as losses of an ally.
In the overall war, you are more than correct. From the 1st day until now, the total number of deaths divided by our losses would be an accurate reflection of our percentage of the overall losses.
9. Kerry wants international summits to be held. Like Allawi addressing a Congressional joint session, or Bush going to the U.N., or the planned Middle East summit.
10. Kerry failed to address the fact that North Korea LIED to the United States and was enriching uranium behind our backs.
I'm frankly amazed at the amount of criticism being launched at Bush from conservatives.
I agree.
I have no idea why the conservative media is not absolutely trumpeting this "kerry idea" of giving nuclear fuel to the world's major supporter of international terrorism.
It is an absolutely criminal position to take.
On the North Korea thing Kerry reeeeally blew it. I was thinking about writing it up exactly why this is so...
Kerry claimed NYC subways were closed during RNC, which is not true.
No, he meant 90% of the coalition military casualties. What he means if we had a greater coalition with more troops from other countries, we would share more of the casualties. Which is true. Unfortunately France and Germany are wusses like him.
I'd encourage you to write it up. Ping me if you do. Thanks.
Our "outsourcing", as Mr. Kerry likes to refer to it, is a large part of the reason why we have succeeded in a place where the Soviets and the British before them had failed.
I just hope the voters will see through the Kerry smoke screens. He was pretty darn slick last night.
The N. Korea failure clearly was a result of the Clinton Administration giving N. Korea NUCLEAR help. Kerry didn't acknowledge it. The media will never mention it. Kerry is dangerous. He wants to do the same with Iran.
Kerry said, "we didn't need that tax cut." Exact quote, devastating sound bite.
Since the Iraqi's have had forces they have lost about 750 troops compared to our 1054.
So we have lost about 50 percent of the total of that number, which does not include other countries.
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