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Long-distance duel: Kerry, Cheney assess national security
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 isnât what he was saying in â72 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..... Bushâs spokesmen have said Kerryâs refusal to name names shows that he is making up those assertions. Bush and Cheney have stopped short of questioning Kerryâs veracity, but the vice president, at a fund-raising stop Tuesday in Colorado, insisted that Americans "have a right to know what heâs 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 Kerryâs vanquished Democratic foes, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, came to Kerryâs 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 wasnât the bombing of Spain reported in the news? Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-03-17 |
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