Posted on 10/29/2004 7:46:30 AM PDT by tallhappy
Edited on 10/29/2004 8:57:16 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Excerpt from Tony Snow's 9-16-01 interview with John Kerry where Kerry essentially said the US brought the attacks on ourselves with our policies and attitudes. This was the first sunday after 911 and Kerry was blaming US attitudes and polcies for provoking, essentially, the attack.
SNOW: Senator Kerry, earlier on the broadcast -- I want to go back to something you mentioned earlier. Earlier on the broadcast, Attorney General Ashcroft was talking about a series of changes he thinks we need to do to improve our domestic vigilance.
You referred to a bit of that when you were discussing money laundering. We have a series of laws to deal with drug dealers in terms of seizing their property, seizing their assets, the kinds of intelligence we can do on them, what we can do with their money and so on.
Do we need to apply that immediately to terrorists? And furthermore, do we need to be able to expand the FBI's ability to do domestic counter- intelligence?
KERRY: There is no question that we will have to change some of the laws in order to deal with terrorism. A lot of us have been trying to do that for some period of time in various sectors, and we've met with resistance because it was deemed to interfere with the normal course of business or, in some people's mind, to weigh too heavily on one side of the balance of how we view our freedoms of the country. But this, I think, has changed that. I'm confident Congress will respond.
But let me say one other thing we need to do, and some people will not probably appreciate this, but I think it's an honest statement of what the United States needs to do.
Globalization and technology have changed the perception of the United States in the world. And there are many of us who feel that we have not been doing enough or sensitive enough to the way in which we are perceived by many countries. We need to not only be tough here, we need to not only respond and ferret out Osama bin Laden, but we need to also listen. We need to also be thoughtful in some of the policies so that we can build friendships and build relationships around the globe and not be alienating quite as many people as we have, I think.
And also, we have to be be particularly sensitive to the rest of Islam and the Islamic world. This cannot be done in a way that lumps everybody into the same pool. There are distinctions here. Osama bin Laden is a perversion of Islam. In fact, the Taliban, many of the leaders of the Taliban are not even trained deeply in religiously. They don't have a deep background in religious training. They have taken Islam and they are changing Islam.
And what Islam itself needs is almost a reaffirmation, if you will. It needs to stand up and speak to the world about its peacefulness and its ability to be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
And we need to be certain that we don't make matters worse in the ways in which we choose to do this. I think that is absolutely essential. And there's much we can do in our foreign policy, in my judgment, to be much more proactive, much more thoughtful and much more sensitive to the needs of the rest of this planet.
Yhis stupid butt kissing commie pig scares the crap out of me.
This stupid butt kissing commie pig scares the crap out of me.
Its funny that the U.S., the innovator or the world! The supplier of food for the World and the defender of the world has to kiss everyone elses ass inorder to justify its self in Kerry's eyes!
Geez...Thanks.
It's 9-16-01.
My typo.
The key is it was immediately after 911 and he's saying this nonsense.
Yes.
I was trying to describe this feeling I had about skerry to my husband, but you said it best.
I said he is just like that irritating kid in school that tried to be part of the crowd and would do and say anything to get their their attention.
Let's all hold hands and sing Kumbayah.
Kerry can have the earth up his ass
Much better;)
Lord,
it may be a bit
uhhhhhhhh . . . welll . . . . cheeky . . .
but
uhhh
it seems to me that a very good place for
ARAFART'S OVERSIZED 'GAY,' AID'S RIDDEN EGO
WOULD BE . . . .
wellllll . . . .
as a very rough suppository for SKERRY's hemroids.
It might be a marriage made in hell--but they should feel, therefore, on plenty comfortable territory!
You need to hit the abuse button and ask the admin moderator to change this: Excerpt from Tony Snow's 9-16-04 to 9-16-01.
He is so dang stupid that he thinks he is nuanced.
This guy is Jimmy Carter without the testicular fortitude.
George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent
Yep!
I wish he would shut his pie hole and just go away!
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