Posted on 04/09/2004 12:28:12 PM PDT by crushkerry
Senator John Kerry has made much of President George W. Bush’s August, 2001 vacation in Crawford, TX, implying he could have prevented the 9-11 attacks if he was in Washington. However, August is traditionally recess time in our national Capitol, a time during which most politicians head home to get some rest or politic among the locals.
Indeed, we find John Kerry’s attack on President Bush oddly ironic, considering the liberal Senator from Massachusetts’ movements during the weeks before that tragic day.
For example, on September 10th, 2001, John Kerry was in Boston, MA receiving something called the Christian Herter Award. Upon receiving the award, Kerry gave a speech that, though containing numerous references to foreign policy, said little to nothing about terrorism. It’s important to remember Sen. Holier-Than-Thou served on the Senate Intelligence committee at the time and presumably had access to the various threatening documents being bandied about these days by the 9-11 Commission.
Instead of alerting the American people to what he may well have known about terrorist threats, Kerry instead droned on about “greenhouse gasses,” the Bush administration’s “isolationism” and warned darkly (surprise!) about Saddam Hussein.
Ironically, Kerry also talked about his own father’s prescience with respect to World War II. “My father saw World War II coming before many of the policy makers in Washington, and he was proud throughout his life that he'd volunteered to fly DC-3's in the Army Air Corps,” he said. This as he was actively ignorant of the clues many in his own party now claim were as plain as the nose on his face, or in Sen. Kerry’s case, his jaw.
Kerry did make a passing reference to terrorism in his speech, though. Toward the end, he implies if we were just nicer to China and Russia, we wouldn’t have to worry about it.
Later that night, Kerry was the honored guest at a dinner honoring KEVRIC Company’s founder David Allen in New Bedford, MA. Again, Kerry’s address was devoid of any mention of al Qaida terror threats, which were by that time only hours away.
And what about that August recess? We know President Bush was in Crawford, TX, presumably picking lint out of his belly button, cleaning his ear out with a pen cap and generally ignoring threats of terrorism. Where was Senator Everyone-Is-Stupid-Except-Me? Why he was gallivanting with the Clintons on Martha’s Vineyard . Were the former President and high-level Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee devising a plan to thwart the evildoers? Um, no. They were discussing John Kerry’s future plans to run for President of the United States.
Here at Crushkerry.com, we don’t really blame John Kerry for the terror strikes on September 11th, 2001. We don’t blame George W. Bush, either. Rather, we blame the terrorists. Did our intelligence apparatus break down? Of course. But playing the blame game could easily backfire against the Democrat nominee for President.
"Efforts to contain Saddam Hussein and topple his regime in Baghdad, prevent the proliferation of weapons technology to hostile states, combat terrorism and stem the illegal flow of narcotics all require the close cooperation of our friends and allies in conjunction with key players including Russia and China.
I don't think GWB will win the Christian Herter award, but he will pay more than lip service to these issues...unlike Kerry.
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