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<p>Excerpt from Tony Snow's 9-16-04 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.</p>

Bush Country was forwarded comments that one of our readers had forwarded to Fox News after watching a scathing video segment from a BBC 9/11 documentary that apparently showed John Kerry franticly sprinting out of the Capital building on 9/11 leaving others to fend for themselves. Fox News has not yet shown the documentary, possibly the topic is considered "off base"?However, just yesterday, the New York Times reported just how "heroic" John Kerry seemed to be in the video so we have to ask ourselves, who is correct our readers or the New York Times? The only way to...

As New York and Washington were under attack on Sept. 11, 2001, a film crew happened to come upon John Kerry leaving the Capitol. The brief moment of footage, included in a BBC documentary called ''Clear the Skies,'' tells us something, perhaps, about Kerry in a crisis. The camera captures Congressional aides and visitors, clearly distraught and holding onto one another, streaming down the back steps of the Capitol building in near panic, following the bellowed instructions of anxious police. Off to one side of the screen, there is Kerry, alone, his long legs carrying him calmly down the steps,...

9-11 is a minefield for the Kerry campaign. In May 2001, frustrated FAA anti terrorism officials tried to get the senator's attention because of what they had discovered to be an alarming lack of security at Boston's Logan Airport, from which two groups of hijackers boarded planes that hit the World Trade Center. As a March 2004 New York Post story recounted, Brian Sullivan, an FAA special agent in the Boston area, told Kerry in a letter dated May 7, 2001, that security at Logan was lax and warned him to imagine "a coordinated attack which took down several domestic...

Kerry fumbled, Bush picked up the Ball! Nancy Salvato September 11, 2004 In light of John Kerry spouting off about how he would have handled the minutes after the Twin Tower attacks differently than President George Bush, I think its time to look at just how ineffective Kerry truly is when it comes to fighting terror. It’s too bad there wasn’t a 9/11 commission set up to investigate Kerry’s actions before the travesty of New York. I would contest that the wrong people have been investigated for failure to prevent the largest act of terror on our soil –to date!...

No wonder my mother was a little breathless on the telephone. "Listen to this," she said, preparing me for a snippet from a tome by the popular, late and liberal historian William Manchester. It describes Franklin D. Roosevelt's initial reaction to news of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, that devastated the American fleet, killing 2,403 soldiers, sailors and civilians. After calling the secretary of state, Manchester writes, "the President of the United States did nothing for 18 minutes." Eighteen minutes. Why, that's 11, maybe 12 minutes more than George W. Bush paused during a visit...

hen Philadelphians aren't booing their Phillies or Eagles and even Santa Claus, their native scrappiness finds other outlets. If you're from Philly and two guys are quarreling on the street, there's only one thing to do -- ask if this is a private fight or can anybody join. It's hard to say just what the raging firefight between John Kerry and the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is. I'd like to see it as a private fight between Vietnam vets; we really ought to be debating today's war on terror, not a 40-year-old war. But, of course, the Kerry-Swifties scrap...

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The Kerry campaign filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission that alleged the group behind the ad was illegally coordinating its efforts with the Bush-Cheney campaign. It cited "recent press reports" and the group's own statements. The Bush campaign denied the allegation. Campaigns often file complaints with the FEC, but the agency rarely intervenes quickly enough to alter the course of a race. Kerry campaign spokesperson Stephanie Cutter sought to turn the argument over presidential readiness back on the White House. "Mr. McClellan needs to understand that John Kerry is not the type of leader who will sit and...

[snip]But last month, the senator acknowledged his own struggle to comprehend the enormity of the terrorist attacks. Mr. Kerry was attending a Democratic leadership meeting in the Capitol office of Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota when two jetliners slammed into the World Trade Center in New York.     "We watched the second plane come into the building," Mr. Kerry said on "Larry King Live."     "And we shortly thereafter sat down at the table and then we just realized nobody could think, and then boom, right behind us, we saw the cloud of explosion at the Pentagon.     "And then...

G R A S S F I R E . O R G S P E C I A L R E P O R T What Did John Kerry Do On 9/11? + + + 8/12/2004 __________, We continue to be amazed at how political leaders are reading off the Michael Moore playbook as outlined in is movie, "Fahrenheit 9/11." It further emphasizes the importance of Grassfire's new publication, "Michael Moore's Misleads." For example, Moore goes to great lengths in an attempt to show that President Bush didn't know what to do when he first found out that America...

Last week, Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry returned to September 11, 2001. He criticized President Bush for remaining in an elementary school classroom 7 minutes after the president had been told a plane had struck the second World Trade Center tower. Mr. Kerry said, had he been president at the time, "I would have told those kids very politely and nicely that the president of the United States had something that he needed to attend to."

It was a beautiful Tuesday morning in Washington, D.C. The sky was blue, the air was crisp, and millions of Americans were making their way to their jobs just as they did on any other day. But this was no ordinary day. In fact, it was a day that would change not only my life but also the course of American history. On this day, September 11, 2001, I rode with the top down in my friend's convertible along the highway toward the Pentagon. As I listened in disbelief to the radio reports of terrorist attacks on the World Trade...

Last week Sen. John Kerry ridiculed President George W. Bush for continuing to sit with school children in Florida after chief of staff Andrew Card informed him that a planes had hit the World Trade Center buildings. Bush sat with the children for seven minutes, before cutting short his appearance and pulling together senior staff for a briefing. Kerry claimed he would have done better. But he didn't, and even admitted it. Kerry has stated on several occasions publicly that he literally froze up after hearing about the terrorist attacks in New York. According to Kerry and several of his...

Seven hours after the White House offered to brief him, Kerry, who'd been unwilling to bump any campaign events, was finally parked in one place long enough so that a secure phone line could be set up in his bus. After playing softball with firefighters and autoworkers in Taylor, Mich., Kerry boarded his bus next to the field, and, still wearing his TEAM KERRY jersey, heard what lay behind last week's terror warnings. He may talk tough, but Kerry still faces his biggest challenge convincing voters he'd be a better commander in the war on terror than Bush. Polls show...

Kerry, NOT Bush, paralyzed by 9/11 attacksHear Kerry admit he could not thinkWHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA by Mia T, 8.07.04   (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) johnkerryisdangerousforamerica.blogspot.com ATLANTA - Thursday Senator John Kerry criticized President Bush for his immediate reaction to the 9/11 attacks on America soon after Michael Moore's use of the footage in Fahrenheit 911. Addressing minority journalists in DC, Mr. Kerry said he would have moved into action much faster than the President on that morning. Kerry said, "Had I been reading to children and had my top aide whispered...

Kerry, NOT Bush, paralyzed by 9/11 attacksHear Kerry admit he could not thinkWHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA by Mia T, 8.07.04   (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) johnkerryisdangerousforamerica.blogspot.com ATLANTA - Thursday Senator John Kerry criticized President Bush for his immediate reaction to the 9/11 attacks on America soon after Michael Moore's use of the footage in Fahrenheit 911. Addressing minority journalists in DC, Mr. Kerry said he would have moved into action much faster than the President on that morning. Kerry said, "Had I been reading to children and had my top aide whispered...

ATLANTA - Thursday Senator John Kerry criticized President Bush for his immediate reaction to the 9/11 attacks on America soon after Michael Moore's use of the footage in Fahrenheit 911. Addressing minority journalists in DC, Mr. Kerry said he would have moved into action much faster than the President on that morning.Kerry said, "Had I been reading to children and had my top aide whispered in my ear, 'America is under attack,' I would have told those kids very politely and nicely that the president of the United States had something that he needed to attend to -- and I...

--SNIP-- John Kerry implies that on 9/11 he would have excused himself from reading to schoolchildren............ Would he have consulted with the Secret Service before doing so? I wonder if Kerry remembers a rule from his short time as an officer: Check your perimeter. The Secret Service is the agency responsible for keeping the president safe, especially when you aren't sure if some terrorists are waiting for the president to emerge. They made sure in a matter of minutes that it was safe to move, and then the president did. It's called common sense. Patrick Reilly Flushing ***** Kerry wants...

One of the characteristic behaviors of the left is the big lie, the false attack on your opponent for something that you have done yourself. With John Kerry, this tendency is combined with a uniquely highly developed case of tone-deafness, an insensibility to context, which in turn is a symptom, it seems to me, of his impenetrable self-regard and sense of entitlement. The other day Kerry attacked President Bush for having continued to read to the Florida school children for several minutes after getting word that the second plane had hit the World Trade Center. All other things being equal,...