TERRORISM AND JOHN KERRY PRE-9/11

This is a MUST SEE VIDEO. Just go to the website, wait for the very short download and watch the show. This says it all about how effective this man would be, managing global terror against America! Just remember that John Kerry said, loud and clear, that the Bush Administration "exaggerated" the terror threat to America! Watch this video. Then you decide! http://www.scaryjohnkerry.com/logan.htm

The idea is good. It also has some good info that is not widely known about Kerry knowing about security lapses at Logan Airport.

You may want to capture the text and post it also, so people can read that.

As a video, most people get lost on the details, and probably get tired of clicking to the next frame, you may want to shorten it.

Also -- it doesn't specifically refute that his book is not really about terrorism. You may want to either add something about that or skip his book and just use his other quotes.

GOP.com has some specific refutation of his claims about the book.

http://www.gop.com/RNCResearch/read.aspx?ID=4337

Kerry’s Book Was No “Strategy To Win The War On Terror”

Despite Bin Laden Terror Links, Kerry’s 1997 Book On Terrorism Contains ZERO References To Him Or Al Qaeda And Just One Dismissive Mention Of Taliban. “In the autumn of 1996, Taliban fighters … called for a return to Islamic purity and a repudiation of opium trafficking. But Western intelligence analysts immediately detected evidence that the public statements were a sham to mask continued [drug] smuggling …” (Sen. John Kerry, The New War, 1997, p. 97)

Reviewer Noted Kerry’s Book Lacked “Any New Ideas” For Fighting Terrorism. “[K]erry rightly fears the effects of political terrorism, particularly the incredible dangers that come with the increasing necessity to trade individual freedom and privacy for collective security. With a laundry list of examples to make his point - the New York World Trade Center bombing, the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma, the nerve gas attack on the Japanese subway - Kerry posits that terrorists will increasingly force society to bargain away its freedoms … Kerry will probably receive some criticism for his book’s failure to advance any new ideas for dealing with international crime. Other than his declaration that nations must work more closely together to identify and apprehend criminals and their assets, Kerry seems to be lacking for solutions to the criminal scourge he so skillfully documents.” (Phillip Morris, “Top Analysis Of Global Crime Lacks Solutions,” The [Cleveland] Plain Dealer, 7/20/97)

The New Republic Said Kerry’s Book “Was Almost Entirely Focused On The Threat Of Global Crime – Not Terrorism” And “Missed The Mark” On “Course Of Action.” “Kerry must be assuming no one will go back and actually read his [1997] manifesto [The New War], because his description of it is awfully selective. Yes, Kerry briefly considered the possibility of a terrorist catastrophe on American soil. But The New War was almost entirely focused on the threat of global crime - not terrorism. If the future Kerry predicted really had arrived, we’d currently be locked in a vicious cyberwar with CD-pirating Japanese yakuza, Chinese kidney-traders, and Italian mobsters - not hunting Islamic fundamentalists potentially armed with weapons of mass destruction. It is, of course, true that almost no one predicted a September 11-like attack, and few correctly identified Islamic terrorists as the chief post-cold-war security threat to the United States. But the ways in which The New War missed the mark are nevertheless revealing. They show the extent to which Kerry was influenced by the criminal investigations of his early Senate career, his preference for viewing post-cold-war security more as a matter for law enforcement than the military, and his tendency to describe problems ad nauseam without offering a clear and bold course of action.” (Michael Crowley, “Kerry’s Odd Book On Terrorism,” The New Republic, 2/9/04)

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