Posted on 09/24/2004 8:27:26 AM PDT by areafiftyone
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry faulted President Bush on Friday for pursuing Saddam Hussein instead of Sept. 11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, a part of a Bush strategy he contended had made defeating terrorism more difficult.
"The invasion of Iraq was a profound diversion from the battle against our greatest enemy, al-Qaida," Kerry said in a speech at Temple University. "There's just no question about it. The president's misjudgment, miscalculation and mismanagement of the war in Iraq all make the war on terror harder to win."
Kerry, in offering a detailed strategy to contain terrorism and to draw a sharp distinction between his and the president's views on national security, added, "Iraq is now what it was not before the war, a haven for terrorists."
While campaigning Friday in Lafayette, La., Vice President Dick Cheney told supporters, "John Kerry is trying to tear down and trash all the good that has been accomplished."
A day earlier, Kerry told The Columbus Dispatch that the president's actions in Iraq and elsewhere show Bush masquerading as a mainstream conservative while pursuing extremist policies.
"I don't view these people as conservatives," Kerry said. "I actually view them as extreme, and I think their policies have been extreme, and that extends all the way to Iraq, where this president, in my judgment, diverted the real war on terror - which was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida - and almost obsessively moved to deal with Iraq in a way that weakened our nation, overextended our armed forces, cost us $200 billion and created a breach in our oldest alliances."
Kerry also mentioned a blurring line between the separation of church and state and the growth of federal budget deficits.
To douse the spread of terrorism, Kerry proposed policies aimed at denying individuals and groups the ability to organize and attack. Kerry said he would build a better military and intelligence apparatus to go after enemies, deny terrorists weapons and financing, move against worldwide terrorist havens and recruitment centers, and promote freedom and democracy in Muslim nations.
Well, if Kerry's just going to do what Bush is already doing, why would anybody elect Kerry?
Kerry's secret has been revealed -- he plans on giving speeches to the terrorists until they die of BOREDOM!
Treason, I tell you.
Since Kerry has started running he has never had an original idea yet. He copies everyone else. He morphs himself just like Al Gore did.
Kerry has a plan.
Main Entry: pro·found
Pronunciation: pr&-'faund, prO-
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French profond deep, from Latin profundus, from pro- before + fundus bottom -- more at PRO-, BOTTOM
1 a : having intellectual depth and insight b : difficult to fathom or understand
2 a : extending far below the surface b : coming from, reaching to, or situated at a depth : DEEP-SEATED
3 a : characterized by intensity of feeling or quality b : all encompassing : COMPLETE
- pro·found·ly /-'faun(d)-lE/ adverb
- pro·found·ness /-'faun(d)-n&s/ noun
You don't need to pander to the paleocon vote, Senator. They're already on the Peroutka short bus.
Kerry is a treasonous, anti-American madman. That should be plain for all to see.
Ummmm, Mr. Kerry you voted for the war in Iraq and gave a passionate supporting the removal of Saddam......
"I actually viewed them as extreme, until I viewed them as lefty liberals! PERIOD!
That's what I can't figure out; he has said NOTHING that Bush isn't already doing!
Dig a hole, Ketchup!
Bush is doing all those things and Kerry is doing nothing but undermining our efforts.
Check out Kerry's comments from CNN Crossfire in 1997:
"We know we can't count on the French. We know we can't count on the Russians," said Mr. Kerry. "We know that Iraq is a danger to the United States, and we reserve the right to take pre-emptive action whenever we feel it's in our national interest."
Link: http://www.washtimes.com/national/inbeltway.htm
Of course, Kerry voted for the invasion of Iraq. And as recently as a month ago said it was the right thing to do, even with no WMD's.
This is beyond politics. This is some sort of personality disorder.
Here is a chart of some of the news reports of links between Saddam and Osama before the MSM forgot there were links between Saddam and Osama.
Check out the John F. Kerry Timeline. Email it to your friends.
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It is plain, for those who really look. However, the country is full of people as insane as he is--frothing at the mouth, wild-eyed, frantically insane. They sign up here for short times as trolls, they populate boards like DU, they show up on talking head shows...heck, they marry candidates and give them their millions. To those people, Kerry looks more like them, so they vote for him.
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