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| Long-distance duel: Kerry, Cheney assess national security |
| 2004-03-17 |
| EFL - Highpoints "I make this simple pledge," the senator said at George Washington University in Washington: "If I am president, I will fight for a constant standard of decency and respect for those who serve their country in our armed forces -- on active duty and as veterans. It should be no other way, and if I am president, it will be no other way." Kerrysaid this? That isn’t what he was saying in ’72 when he accused servicemen of war crimes ( murder, rape, of civilians) in Nam.... "We need to use the tools of diplomacy as well as the tools of war," Kerry said. "All of us support our troops. But if we had built a true coalition, they would not have to fight almost alone -- and Americans would not have to bear almost all the costs in Iraq." Hear that Britain? Spain? Poland? Where the hell were you guys -- we did it all ourselves! "Though John Kerry voted in October of 2002 for military action in Iraq, he later voted against funding our soldiers," the ad says. Kerry called the ad "misleading" and a "distortion," insisting before an audience of veterans in Huntington that he opposed the measure because Republicans refused to pay for it by rolling back tax cuts for high-income taxpayers, as he and other Democrats proposed. "We thought that since those [military] families are sacrificing, that just maybe the wealthiest people in America would be willing to also contribute," he said. As well as those who are looking or just got a job and are trying to make a living..... Bush’s spokesmen have said Kerry’s refusal to name names shows that he is making up those assertions. Bush and Cheney have stopped short of questioning Kerry’s veracity, but the vice president, at a fund-raising stop Tuesday in Colorado, insisted that Americans "have a right to know what he’s saying to foreign leaders that makes them so supportive of his candidacy." Well we know what he is saying to the Mullahs of Iran, Kimmie-boy, and Binny.... "We surrender!" "We are the ones who get to determine who wins the election, not unnamed foreign leaders," Cheney said, to applause from the GOP faithful. Damn stright! But one of Kerry’s vanquished Democratic foes, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, came to Kerry’s defense, saying the vindictive nature of the Bush administration justifies his decision to withhold the names. "For Sen. Kerry to reveal the names of foreign leaders who prefer his candidacy would simply open those nations open up to retribution, a characteristic of this administration which we have seen both at home and abroad," Dean said. Who? Where? Come on name some names Dean! Well even let you howl the names! Why wasn’t the bombing of Spain reported in the news? |
| Posted by:CrazyFool |
| #4 You guys have to admit that this war would have gone much better, had we had the French bringing up the rear....oh no......hahahahahahahahah I think I wet myself. |
| Posted by: wills 2004-3-17 6:48:22 PM |
| #3 former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, came to Kerry’s defense, saying the vindictive nature now there is a statement of contradictions from the most pleasant dean.... |
| Posted by: Dan 2004-3-17 5:59:29 PM |
| #2 But if we had built a true coalition, they would not have to fight almost alone this is a huge lie...now tell just when did the US fight with a coalition where we were not the main force fighting? (excluding the brits..WWII and the Persion Guld II).....whenever the US fights we are usually alone with just token forces supplied by so-called allies. |
| Posted by: Dan 2004-3-17 5:57:15 PM |
| #1 Kerry called the ad "misleading" and a "distortion," insisting before an audience of veterans in Huntington that he opposed the measure because Republicans refused to pay for it by rolling back tax cuts for high-income taxpayers, as he and other Democrats proposed. As suggested on NRO, the response to this should be, "How much does John Kerry want to raise taxes? So much he voted against body armor for our troops when he didn't get the tax increase he wanted." |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-3-17 4:01:21 PM |