[THJNewYorkCity]

Little is being made of Kerry's Gulf War vote. The entire international community was behind George H. W. Bush and he STILL voted against the war. This is the vote that tells the most...because it 's a straight line from his peacenik views after Vietnam right to his refusal to throw Saddam out of Kuwait. The ads from the Swiftboat guys talk about how they're ticked off or hurt by what he did years ago, but what what they SHOULD say is that what he did when he got back, coupled with all the votes against weapons systems and intelligence budgets, and then linked to his scaredy cat vote on the first Gulf War tells us precisely who he is and what he would be like as president. As Democrat Ed Koch said, politely "I don't think he has the stomach for this..."

He' s a September 10 politician. He doesn't realize this is a war, and it's a war for Western Civilization as much as World War II was.

[ncfool]

any other place to read this posting......

[Boundless]

Kerry's March 13, 1991 speech in "defense" of that vote is
also a classic that needs to be studied by "undecideds".

Bush Brought Up Gulf War 1 -- Flashback of Kerry's Post-War Senate Defense of his Vote - 3/13/1991
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1246860/posts

[dufekin]

Consider the pessimism of the Democrats. Amid the Iraq war, I attended an event at which a senior Democrat and Clintonite (I don't recall the name) lambasted the President for his Iraq war policy. He predicted that American forces would languish without any supply convoys before Baghdad for two months before being forced into Saddam's gallows. 25,000 would die in combat, and the remainder would starve and run out of ammunition because of a lack of secure supply lines. Because of a lack of French forces, American forces could not succeed (presumably at an orderly surrender a la Dunkirk). The war would be unwinnable.

To make a long story short, not 25 minutes later, having returned to my apartment, I turned on Fox News and heard "Our soldiers have entered the City of Baghdad." Surrender? No. Dead? No. Fighting and very much alive. French? Certainly not. Ammunition? Plenty. Food? Sufficient. Two months of siege warfare? Only if a month was twelve minutes--which I assure you, it is not!

From that day forward, I no longer listen to Democrats and their armchair generals when it comes to military and national security pessimism.

[NetSurfer]

As much as I agree with your sentiments...the scariest thing is that most of the "undecideds" (if there truly ARE any) don't even remember the Gulf War. Hence, they probably don't care what Kerry did, circa 1991. To them, that's like ancient history.

They can't even remember what they ate for dinner on Wednesday.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

It's worth noting that the Gulf War was fully UN approved and supported; in other words, the Gulf War had already passed every conceivable "Global Test," and Kerry still voted against it.

[stockstrader]

I agree. The President should be spending MUCH MORE TIME on this Kerry vote. After all, this Kerry vote passes Kerry's GLOBAL TEST!

If Kerry had been President, Saddam Hussein would not only be in power in IRAQ, he would also own Kuwait!!

[GoBucks2002]

He' s a September 10 politician. He doesn't realize this is a war, and it's a war for Western Civilization as much as World War II was.

Since the Bush campaign dare not bring this up (it might upset the New York Times, you know) and since our side seems way outgunned in the 527 game, I seriously doubt that many Americans are aware of this. Nor will they ever be.

[TFine80]

Examine Kerry's tortured postwar defense of his vote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1246860/posts