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Posted on 10/29/2004 9:28:38 AM PDT by Mia T
By Noelle Straub
WESTLAKE, Ohio - Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling will throw his support to President Bush at two New Hampshire rallies today, unexpectedly stealing part of Sen. John F. Kerry's hometown base.
In an unexpected slapdown to the Bay State senator, Schilling urged support for Bush during an interview yesterday on ABC's ``Good Morning America.''
``Make sure you tell everybody to vote - and vote Bush - next week,'' Schilling said.
Surprised host Charlie Gibson replied, ``Whoa, all right. Something else that divides the nation as well.''
Bush - who hadn't even stayed up to watch the whole game - quickly called Schilling to thank him for the plug, or as spokesman Scott McClellan put it, his ``kind words of support.''
The Bush campaign immediately touted Schilling's words, e-mailing the comment to reporters in an effort to take the spotlight away from Kerry even as he celebrated the Red Sox' World Series win.
Schilling will introduce Bush at events today in Manchester and Portsmouth, N.H. His endorsement marks the second time Kerry has been dissed by a major sports hero from his back yard. New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady snubbed Kerry by opting out of a fund-raiser and showed up at Bush's State of the Union speech, making a brief statement backing the president.
The notoriously early-to-bed Bush watched some of Wednesday night's World Series Game 4 but then went to sleep. He didn't find out who won until yesterday morning.
Schilling's endorsement of Bush came as Kerry tried to associate himself with the win. The Bay State senator put out a statement saying he'd ``been rooting for this day'' since he was a kid, and wore a somewhat ill-fitting Red Sox ballcap on stage yesterday.
Bush aides could be heard mocking Kerry's headgear when they saw pictures of him wearing it on television.
Gayle Fee contributed to this report.
THE MYTH OF THE 'MISSING EXPLOSIVES': A SHAMELESS LIE
SHOULD the United Nations decide who be comes our president? Sen. John Kerry wouldn't mind. He's shamelessly promoting the lies that the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency is telling about Iraq.
A devious IAEA report suggests that 400 tons of explosives were spirited away by our enemies under the noses of our Keystone-Cops troops after the fall of Baghdad. The document just happened to be released in the closing days of our presidential election. Purely a coincidence, of course. Brought to you by those selfless U.N. bureaucrats who failed in Iraq and are now failing in Iran.
Since Kerry's willing to blame our troops for a scandal invented by America-haters, let's look at the story the military way, by the numbers.
One: The IAEA claims its inspectors visited the ammo dump at Al-Qaqaa on March 9, 2003, and found the agency's seals intact on bunkers containing sensitive munitions. Unverifiable, but let's assume that much is true.
Two: Faced with an impending invasion, Saddam's forces did what any military would do. They began dispersing ammunition stocks from every storage site that might be a Coalition bombing target. If the Iraqis valued it, they tried to move it. Before the war.
Three: Members of our 3rd Infantry Division -- the heroes who led the march to Baghdad -- reached the site in question in early April. Despite the pressures of combat, they combed the dump. Nothing was found. Al-Qaqaa was a vast junkyard.
Four: Our 101st Airborne Division assumed responsibility for the sector as the 3ID closed on Baghdad. None of the Screaming Eagles found any IAEA markers -- even one would have been a red flag to be reported immediately.
Five: At the end of May, military teams searching for key Iraqi weapons scoured Al-Qaqaa. They found plenty of odds and ends -- the detritus of war -- but no IAEA seals. And no major stockpiles.
Six: Now, just before Election Day, the IAEA, a discredited organization embarrassed by the Bush administration's decision to call it on the carpet, suddenly realizes that 400 tons of phantom explosives went missing from the dump.
Seven: Even if repeated inspections by U.S. troops had somehow missed this deadly elephant on the front porch, and even if the otherwise-incompetent Iraqis had been so skilled and organized they were able to sneak into Al-Qaqaa and load up 400 tons of Saddam's love-powder, it would have taken a Teamsters' convention to get the job done.
Eight: If the Iraqis had used military transport vehicles of five-ton capacity, it would have required 80 trucks for one big lift, or, say, 20 trucks each making four trips. They would have needed special trolleys, forklifts, handling experts and skilled drivers (explosives aren't groceries). This operation could not have happened either during or after the war, while the Al-Qaqaa area was flooded with U.S. troops.
Nine: We owned the skies. And when you own the skies, you own the roads. We were watching for any sign of organized movement. A gaggle of non-Coalition vehicles driving in and out of an ammo dump would have attracted the attention of our surveillance systems immediately.
Ten: And you don't just drive high explosives cross-country, unless you want to hear a very loud bang. Besides, the Iraqis would have needed to hide those 400 tons of explosives somewhere else. Unless the uploaded trucks are still driving around Iraq.
Eleven: Even if the IAEA told the truth and the Iraqis were stealth-logistics geniuses who emptied the site's ammo bunkers under our noses, the entire issue misses a greater point: 400 tons of explosives amounted to a miniscule fraction of the stocks Saddam had built up. Coalition demolition experts spent months destroying more than 400,000 tons of Iraqi war-making materiel.
Our soldiers eliminated more than a thousand tons of packaged death for every ton the United Nations claims they missed. Does that sound like incompetence? Why hasn't our success been mentioned? Can't our troops get credit for anything?
Twelve: The bottom line is that, if the explosives were ever there, the Iraqis moved them before our troops arrived. There is no other plausible scenario.
Sen. Kerry knows this is a bogus issue. And he doesn't care. He's willing to accuse our troops of negligence and incompetence to further his political career. Of course, he did that once before.
Ralph Peters is the author of "Beyond Baghdad: Postmodern War and Peace." EXPLOSIVE 'NEWS'
October 28, 2004
John Kerry's desperation is growing -- as is his nose.
Also growing is the body of com pelling evidence of Kerry's unsuitability to serve as America's wartime commander-in-chief.
Over the past few days, Kerry has shown that he'll say and do anything -- even, once again, defame U.S. troops in the field -- to become president.
But he clearly hasn't a clue about the real dangers involved in this war -- either at home or abroad.
After a (now discredited) story Monday in The New York Times reported on missing explosives in Iraq, Kerry rushed headlong to make hay of its central theme: that U.S. troops were too incompetent to safeguard some 380 tons of high explosives, despite knowing about the risk of their being stolen.
"In Iraq," Kerry says -- in an ad thrown together just hours after the Times story appeared -- "George Bush . . . failed to secure 380 tons of deadly explosives, the kind used for attacks in Iraq, and for terrorist bombings."
Kerry called the disappearance "one of the great blunders of Iraq" and a product of "incredible incompetence."
Just one problem: The "disappearance" scandal appears to be a fabrication.
The Pentagon told Fox News yesterday that troops searched the site where the explosives were stored several times before and after the fall of Baghdad last year -- and found no explosives.
Two reporters embedded with the troops at the facility, known as Al Qaqaa, have also said that no evidence of the weapons were found, even as early as April 10 -- the day after Baghdad fell.
Yes, the explosives were gone in May. But the most likely conclusion is that they were gone long before U.S. troops arrived. (Retired Army intelligence officer Ralph Peters lays down a compelling timeline on the opposite page.)
Meanwhile, even Kerry national-security adviser Richard Holbrooke has acknowledged that he -- and presumably his Kerry colleagues -- "don't know what happened" to the weapons.
Which is also what the Times was told by the Iraqi minister whose staffer's letter about the explosives two weeks ago called attention to the issue.
Yet none of this slowed Kerry down one bit. Even yesterday, he was blaming U.S. troops for the missing weapons -- and their commander-in-chief, President Bush, for trying to "dodge and bob and weave . . . to avoid responsibility."
Responsibility? Kerry wouldn't know what that was if it hit him in the face.
After all, if Kerry believes these weapons are so dangerous, how could he think Operation Iraqi Freedom is "the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time"?
Is he saying he'd be comfortable letting Saddam hold on to these materials?
Despite 9/11? Despite Baghdad's collaboration with terrorists?
Bush himself made that point yesterday. "After repeatedly calling Iraq the 'wrong war' and a diversion, Sen. Kerry this week seemed shocked to learn that Iraq was a dangerous place, full of dangerous weapons," Bush said.
"If Sen. Kerry had his way . . . we would still be taking our 'global test.' Saddam Hussein would still . . . control all those weapons and explosives and could have shared them with our terrorist enemies."
Not that Kerry seems to have the slightest concern about that.
Then, again, 9/11 -- he freely admits -- "didn't change" him.
At the same time, Kerry's reckless -- baseless -- attempt to make a mockery of U.S. troops completely obscures their genuinely heroic seizure of more than 400,000 tons of munitions at thousands of sites throughout Iraq.
Taken another way, the missing material amounted to less than one-tenth of 1 percent of what was captured.
This is not the kind of judgment and logic America needs these days.
In these efforts, of course, Kerry is aided materially by his shills in the media.
The Times, for instance, (purposefully?) left the unmistakable impression that the explosives disappeared right under the noses of American soldiers.
And CBS News -- fresh from its Rathergate forged-memos adventure -- joined the Times in preparing the missing-weapons story.
How dishonorable has CBS become?
Well, "60 Minutes" had planned to air its own version of the weapons story Sunday night -- just two days before the election, far too little time for more reputable journalists to sort things out.
As for Kerry, you've got to wonder whether he learned anything from his slander of U.S. troops in Vietnam 33 years ago, when he accused them of war crimes, based on wholly fabricated "testimony."
Which raises the question: How can U.S. soldiers -- how can Americans -- trust Kerry to lead the nation and its military in a time of war, when he is so clearly reckless in his assumptions, quick to blame the troops and openly hostile to going to war to defend the country?
The answer? They can't.
(CURT SCHILLING ENDORSES BUSH)
POURQUOI JOHN KERRY EST DANGEREUX POUR L'AMÉRIQUE
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Schilling's not done pitching, and Bush digs it
Friday, October 29, 2004
NEW! compleatjohnkerry.blogspot.com
NEW! unfitforcommand.blogspot.com
johnkerryisdangerousforamerica.blogspot.com
HEAR BUSH RESPONSE
SEE EXPLOSIVES TIMELINE,
SEE SATELLITE PHOTO OF PRE-WAR TRUCK ACTIVITY
POURQUOI JOHN KERRY EST DANGEREUX POUR L'AMÉRIQUE
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johnkerryisdangerousforamerica.blogspot.com
BY RALPH PETERS
October 28, 2004
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"THIS IS NOT A GOOD MAN" POURQUOI JOHN KERRY EST DANGEREUX POUR L'AMÉRIQUE  (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)
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- election update!10.24.04
JOHN KERRY IS UNFIT~THE SERIES
- KERRY IMPLOSION
HEAR BUSH RESPONSE
SEE EXPLOSIVES TIMELINE,
SEE SATELLITE PHOTO OF PRE-WAR TRUCK ACTIVITY
MISSING EXPLOSIVES, MISSING WMD, JOHN KERRY'S GLOBAL TEST + JOHN KERRY'S CHARACTER
<YAWN>
THE MAN FROM HOPE: been there, done that
REPLUMBED IN PHILLY
(HE'S BA-A-A-CK!)
KERRY-EDWARDS INTERNATIONAL CRISIS:
BAD-HAIR DAY
CAMOUFLAGE
KERRY'S PERFECT METAPHOR
JOHN KERRY'S GLOBAL TEST, "UNEQUIVOCABALLY"
PARSING TERESA
FLORIDA'S VOTING BUT WHERE'S ED KOCH?
GEORGE SOROS:
KERRY-DEMOCRAT PUPPETMASTER
NUISANCE' NUANCE: KERRY'S TERROR PROBLEM
SEVERAL SIMPLE ENDGAME SUGGESTIONS FOR PRESIDENT BUSH
DEBATE 3: JOHN KERRY OUTS JOHN KERRY
"THIS IS NOT A GOOD MAN"
YOU CAN TAKE THE BOY OUT OF AMBULANCE-CHASING
BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE AMBULANCE-CHASING OUT OF THE BOY
RAISING TAXES, YOU POOR SLOBS + TERESA'S 11.5% TAX RATE
(LAISSEZ-LES MANGER LE GÂTEAU)
THE LETHAL DANGER OF JOHN KERRY:
SPACE-TIME, TESSELLATIONS OF THE PLANET + TERRORISM
Kerry aims for 9/10, the good old days when terrorists were a "NUISANCE" and "not the focus of our lives"
Shadow War: The Untold Story of How Bush is Winning the War on Terror
DEBATE 2: Bush KOs Kerry
(The Lethal Danger of Kerry-Edwards + Old Media)
DUELFER REPORT ON IRAQ RENDERS KERRY "A COMPLACENT FOOL" OR "AN UTTER FRAUD"
WHICH DANGEROUS MAN?
YOO-HOO! SECURITY MOMS:
THE TERRORISTS ARE TARGETING YOUR KIDS!
DEBATE ONE
NO GYP SHEET
Est-ce que je peux?
préemption et l'essai global
KERRY'S "GLOBAL TEST" FOR PREEMPTION:
WHY SECURITY MOMS WILL VOTE FOR BUSH
Diane Sawyer Nails Kerry Peril
PREEMPTION + KERRY'S EX POST FACTO REASONING
WINDSURFER WATERLOO
why the surfboard--not the snowboard--is (to mix war metaphors) Kerry's Achilles' heel
Windsurfing in the Persian Gulf
John "One Position on Iraq" Kerry's 1971 Replay
YOO-HOO DAN RATHER!
KERRY'S BELATED "HONORABLE" DISCHARGE:
Is a less-than-honorable discharge and clinton "pardon" behind Kerry's refusal to sign form 180 to release ALL of his records?
RATHERGATE IS ANOTHER WATERGATE: The Nexus
CARL BERNSTEIN: RATHERGATE MAY BE ANOTHER WATERGATE
CLUELESS: O'REILLY AND PODHORETZ ON RATHERGATE
THE KERRY-RATHER-BARNES FORGERIES DECONSTRUCTED
HEAR THE FIRST VEEP DEBATE NOW! (the whole ball of wax)
CHENEY WARNS AMERICA: THIS ELECTION IS ABOUT OUR SURVIVAL
KERRY-EDWARDS TRIES TO SHUT DOWN DEBATE
KERRY'S VIETNAM FIXATION
PART 1: advice from bill
Kerry's new W offensive
YOO-HOO! UNDECIDEDS + "PERSUADABLES"
HEAR THE SPEECH JOHN KERRY DOESN'T WANT YOU TO HEAR
(WHY INFORMED, RATIONAL DEMOCRATS WILL VOTE FOR BUSH)
DECONSTRUCTING ZELL MILLER
EXPLOITING MAX CLELAND
Kerry is UNFIT #21: THUMBSUCKER SERIES
BOARDHEAD TO THE RESCUE
The Left's Fatally Flawed "Animal Farm" Mentality
(Why America Must NEVER AGAIN Elect a Democrat President)
Kerry is UNFIT #20: THUMBSUCKER SERIES
PREEMPTION-(the whole ball of wax)
CONTEMPLATING KERRY'S "GUT"
A PRESIDENT KERRY MAY BE ABHORRENT
...BUT IS IT EVEN CONSTITUTIONAL?
getting kerry's goat
john kerry lacks presidential temperament
Two Psychologists on Kerry: Dangerous on National Security
YOO-HOO! followthemoney.org. . .
OVER HERE!
"bombastic ass" is not the antidote to "boorish ass"
(or why Keith Olbermann Cannot Do Cleanup for Chris Matthews)
UNFIT #19:
JOHN KERRY'S "MORE SENSITIVE WAR ON TERROR"
THE COMPLEAT JOHN KERRY
WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA
Kerry, NOT Bush, paralyzed by 9/11 attacks
Hear Kerry admit he could not think
THE DEMOCRATS ARE GONNA GET US KILLED (kerry, clinton + sandy berger's pants) SERlES 3
UNFIT #10: 9/10 mindset
THE DEMOCRATS ARE GONNA GET US KILLED (kerry, clinton + sandy berger's pants) SERlES 2
KERRY-DEMOCRAT CONTEMPT FOR NATIONAL SECURITY[annotated]
THE DEMOCRATS-ARE-GONNA-GET-US-KILLED (kerry, clinton + sandy berger's pants) SERlES1
dox in sox on lummox in box on fox
THE REAL "REAL DEAL"
(what Kerry's commanders and crewmates REALLY think of him--with transcripts)
Did John Kerry pick a running mate or hire a lawyer when he selected John Edwards?
THE MAN FROM HOPE: been there, done that
"Hope is on the way!" (the scoop)
THE TERRORISTS' USEFUL IDIOTS
all the usual suspects
A Vote for Kerry is a Vote for the Terrorists
ELECTION BOTTOM LINE:
TERRORIST SYMPATHIZER or TERRORIST ANNIHILATOR
UNFIT #9-JOHN KERRY: DEADLY OPPORTUNIST
SELF-CONFESSED WAR CRIMlNAL MORPHS INTO SELF-PROMOTER WAR HERO
UNFIT #6: The Deadly Kerry-Hollywood Axis
HOW CAN YOU PUT YOUR CHILDREN'S LIVES IN ITS HANDS?
UNFIT: taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief
#1-making the tough choices in a post-9/11 world
UNFIT: taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief
#2-understanding the job description
UNFIT: taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief
#3-sang-froid and the "nuclear" button
UNFIT: taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief
#4 - Kerry champions tolerance for terrorists
sanitizing evil
Kerry Cabal Censors Nick Berg Decapitation
"Loose Cannon" Kerry's AWOL/PURPLE-HEART FRAUD
pro-islamofascist-terrorist radical chic
USEFUL IDIOTS
MOORE IS LESS--THE MOVIE
The Cycle of Violence:
NOW WITH HYPERLINKED INSTRUCTION MANUAL
JOHN KERRY'S RECKLESS TET-OFFENSIVE-GAMBIT REPLAY:
the left's jihad against America is killing our troops, aiding + abetting the terrorists and imperiling all Americans
bill clinton, boy "genius," unwittingly bares all on BBC
deconstructing clinton… "just because I could"
vetting missus clinton...
The Parallel Universe of Jamie Gorelick
nepotism + tokenism = a nancy pelosi
(or a hillary clinton)
Kerry's Belated Condemnation Focuses on Process
Kerry Lacks Moral Authority to Condemn Content
"CRY BUSH" + Iraqi-Prisoner "Abuse"
What are the Dems up to?
DON'T BELIEVE YOUR LYING EARS (The Perjurer Returns)
(Clinton: Claims I Turned Down Bin Laden are 'Bull')
The Mary Jo White Memo:
Documentation of clintons' and Gorelick's willful, seditious malfeasance
What is the REAL Reason for Gorelick's Wall?
giant sucking sound
KERRY MAKES DUKAKIS LOOK CONSERVATIVE, SMART + JUDICIOUS
- Q ERTY6 utter failureBUMP
- Lib Author Regrets Voting (TWICE!) for clinton
"Sickened" by clinton's Failure to Protect America from Terrorism
MUST-READ BOOK FOR DEMOCRATS:
How clintons' Failures Unleashed Global Terror
(Who in his right mind would ever want the clintons back in the Oval Office?)
The Man Who Warned America
(Why a Rapist is Not a Fit President)
UDAY: "The end is near… this time I think the… Americans are serious, Bush is not like Clinton."
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I heard Schilling bailed on the event. Something about his ankle. I'm sure the libs in Boston were going nuts about his activism.
I like this one point: Even if they could, what idiot would load 380 tons of high explosives on to trucks and haul them through a war zone? I know these people aren't the brightest bulbs on the block...but this would give new meaning to the Big-Bang theory. Why not just wear a sign with a bullseye. Sorry...I don't buy it.
Make sure you tell everybody to vote - and vote Bush - next week,'' Schilling said.
Surprised host Charlie Gibson replied, ``Whoa, all right. Something else that divides the nation as well.''
Right. Democrats and liberals exercise free speech, but convervatives 'divide the nation.'
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