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.
This is the funniest one of all.
His mouthpiece, Richard Holbrooke, has said that democracy is not possible in Muslim nations.
Amazing speech by Lurch, Bush could not have said it better to totally discredit sKerry.
i just watched a new kerry!!....lol...its like he had a baptism and became a born again hawk. His speech was long on promises and short on hows though. He took the pres and rummy out of context and made some vague generalities. Did anyone notice the cold shoulder the crowd gave the isreal part....but i have faith in kerry...faith that tommorrow he will say something differnet to a new crowd.
Did Kerry miss mama T's briefing yesterday where she said bin bagged is in the bag and will be cooked before the election? You would think they would talk it over at night.
What a twit. Perhaps he should go back to early interviews where the Administration said it would love to get Osama, but one man was not all that important in the big picture. Would Kerry put all our resources into going cave-to-cave to find one man? Probably.
Won't Kerry feel stupid if Osama is either captured or proven to alrweady be dead say about Oct. 20th or so.
F'N--"Nevermind"
"Well, if Kerry's just going to do what Bush is already doing, why would anybody elect Kerry?"
Ditto
Mr. Kerry, from you vantage point (far left) even moderates look extreme.
QUESTION: Should America put Saddam Hussein back into power as President of Iraq?
We can do that Sen. Kerry, if that is what the majority of American citizens decide. Is this what you want us to do?
If not, then shut up. Over two million (2,000,000) people died because America followed your wishes for Vietnam.
You, Sen. Kerry, have a long and bloody history to account for.
THEN:
"I will be voting to give the president of the United States the authority to use force - if necessary - to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security."
**John F. Kerry, Oct 2002**
NOW:
"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."
**John F. Kerry, Sept. 24, 2004**
Nuff said......
He just puts his index finger up and determines which way the wind is blowing and that's the route he follows. Even Howard Dean on the campaign trail accused Botox Ketchupman of that practice.
In other words, exactly what Bush has done, is doing, and will continue to do.
It really is remarkable what a tool this guy is, but not nearly as remarkable as the 40% of voters that will accept this... poop.
Maybe he believes that he can reason with Iran to 'promote' democracy there, as we watch DC glow from one of their new nukes? What is he going to do? How is he going to 'promote' democracy while showing the face of an appeaser?
You are right, he has a disorder - he was born without a spine. He will read or say whatever he thinks will advance his career. He doesn't care if the speech he reads on Friday contradicts the speech he read on Tuesday. He has put his future in the hands of poll reading cretins from the Clinton era.
A_R
Bush needs to coopt the Two Americas theme. In Kerry's America, we are always at falt, we are always going to lose, and we are incapcable of doing more than one thing at a time. In Bush's America, we have the strength to tackle the hard problems, we fight for what we believe in, and we have a can do attitude.
Go Get'em Johnny!!!
Now that would be a funny cartoon image.
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