KERRY ENVISIONS TERRORISTS AS 'NUISANCE'

the drudge report ^ | Oct. 10, 2004 | Drudge

[blogblogginaway]

Kerry: 'We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance'...

[intolerancewillNOTbetolerated]

" The media is willfully keeping Americans misinformed about this guy and it's going to cost us heavily."

The MSM is doing far more than keeping the public misinformed. They are compaigning for sKerry to a level even Soros' billions couldn't buy.

[SeaBiscuit]

The most dangerous man alive to America right now is not Osama bin laden but Jerk Fraud sKerry.

[West Coast Conservative]

Kerry thinks fighting terrorism is like fighting crime. Rove is going to have a field day on this!

[Arizona Carolyn]

I read the entire article and it made me sick to my stomach. I'm appalled the entire media isn't all over this. Has anyone blipped Sean, Rush, O'Reilly (BARF)... etc. on this?

[Theresawithanh]

Misquoting someone is unfair, but the dems do it all the time.

What strikes me as weird is that Kerry compares terrorism to prostitution in the actual statement.

[stayathomemom]

This seems like a "Let them eat cake." comment.

[rineaux]

way to bring a nuisance'... into perspective.

[mware]

Kerry: "We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance. As a former law-enforcement person, I know we're never going to end prostitution. We're never going to end illegal gambling. But we're going to reduce it, organized crime, to a level where it isn't on the rise. It isn't threatening people's lives every day, and fundamentally, it's something that you continue to fight, but it's not threatening the fabric of your life.''

Hope you folks can make sense out of it. I sure can't

[bahblahbah]

Bush really needs to exploit this. During the 1990's terrorism might have seemed to be a nuisanse when we were attacked IIRC 8 times.

[newzjunkey]

I can believe that. That means he won't address them. He, like Clinton, views terrorist activity is something to be ignored, and swept out of public view.

He'll do EXACTLY what Clinton did. APPEASE. IGNORE. FIRE the occassional MISSILE AT A CAMEL. LIE to the American People about being *tough* on terror. PUT ON A SHOW while REAL THREATS (like 9/11) gather.

KERRY DOES NOT understand those are the FAILED POLICIES OF THE PAST. HE DOESN'T GET IT.

[Mfkmmof4]

I would love to be back to where we were before 9/11 but unfortunately, there is no such thing as a magic wand to eras what happened.

[mware]

it's not threatening the fabric of your life."

Kerry is done for with the Security Mom's of America. The frabic of their lives is their children.

[blogblogginaway]

Page 6

When I asked Kerry what it would take for Americans to feel safe again, he displayed a much less apocalyptic worldview. ''We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance,'' Kerry said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/magazine/10KERRY.html?pagewanted=1

[TomGuy]

It seems the attribute to Kerry is only by inference:

...

from Err on side of strength
by
Mona Charen, nationally syndicated columnist

...

Kerry has said, "The war on terror is less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering and law enforcement operation."

That, of course, was the Clinton administration's approach. Clinton was not the first American president to treat terrorism as a nuisance rather than a deadly threat. Such attacks as we suffered were all (with the exception of the first assault on the World Trade Center) far from home and limited in number. This is not to excuse Clinton - he let Osama bin Laden slip away twice and shrank from confronting Saddam - but Clinton was acting in a different world.

[mware]

The war on terror is less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering and law enforcement operation."

The same intelligence gathering that Kerry tried to defund????

[gypsylea]

We just iced the election.

[Arizona Carolyn]

A paragraph on page 11 is most-telling (to me)

He would begin, if sworn into office, by going immediately to the United Nations to deliver a speech recasting American foreign policy. Whereas Bush has branded North Korea ''evil'' and refuses to negotiate head on with its authoritarian regime, Kerry would open bilateral talks over its burgeoning nuclear program. Similarly, he has said he would rally other nations behind sanctions against Iran if that country refuses to abandon its nuclear ambitions. Kerry envisions appointing a top-level envoy to restart the Middle East peace process, and he's intent on getting India and Pakistan to adopt key provisions of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

(One place where Kerry vows to take a harder line than Bush is Pakistan, where Bush has embraced the military ruler Pervez Musharraf, and where Kerry sees a haven for chaos in the vast and lawless region on the border with Afghanistan.)

In all of this, Kerry intends to use as leverage America's considerable capacity for economic aid; a Kerry adviser told me, only slightly in jest, that Kerry's most tempting fantasy is to attend the G-8 summit

[newzjunkey]

He's saying we should become like Israel or like Ireland or like Indonesia or like Russia and learn to "live with it."

He has no VISION. He's blind, deaf and dumb. He's not PRO-ACTIVE. He's RE-ACTIVE. Like Clinton. All that did was embolden the terrorists.

[Gucho]

"He's lost all connection to reality"

LOL - I got that impression long ago when he filmed his Vietnam War hero heroics.

[rineaux]

Maybe he has already or plans too. Consider 1971 his visit to Paris to meet with Communist Party of North Vietnam, 1983(?)visit to Nicaragua to meet with Daniel Ortega and the Communist Party while Reagan was fighting the Iron Curtain.
Kerry is a traitor and may end up leading this country.