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KERRY'S "OUTSOURCING" LIE, OVERWEENING OPPORTUNISM, DANGER TO OUR NATIONAL SECURITY
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"What we are doing, I think, is having its impact and it is the best way to protect our troops and sort of minimalize the proximity, if you will. I think we have been doing this pretty effectively and we should continue to do it that way.... I think we have been smart; I think the administration leadership has done it well and we are on the right track." JOHN KERRY
LARRY KING LIVE
agreed with Bush's hun-for-bin-Laden "outsourcing"
on Dec. 14, 2001
(WHEN THE 'OUTSOURCING' WAS ACTUALLY HAPPENING)
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BY NOW CLAIMING JUST THE OPPOSITE IN ORDER TO EXPLOIT THE BIN LADEN TAPE, JOHN KERRY IS ENDANGERING OUR NATIONAL SECURITY FOR HIS OWN POLITICAL GAIN... AS USUAL.
THE BUSH CAMPAIGN MUST PLAY THE LKL TAPE TO SHOW THAT KERRY WILL SAY AND DO ANYTHING TO GET ELECTED.
KERRY IS AGGRESSIVELY AND BLUNTLY TRYING TO CONVERT THE BIN LADEN TAPE TO HIS ADVANTAGE BY:
- ERRONEOUSLY EQUATING SUCCESS IN THE WAR ON TERROR WITH THE CAPTURING OF BIN LADEN. (IF KERRY ACTUALLY BELIEVES THIS SIMPLISTIC FORMULATION, IT REVEALS KERRY'S FRIGHTENING CLUELESSNESS ABOUT THE WAR ON TERROR.)
- LYING ABOUT HIS CONTEMPORANEOUS (Dec. 2001) VIEW OF THE "OUTSOURCING" TO AFGHAN WARLORDS.
- THE BUSH PEOPLE MUST SHOW THAT KERRY IN FACT AGREED WITH BUSH ON THE "OUTSOURCING" WHEN THE "OUTSOURCING" WAS TAKING PLACE.
- THEY MUST SHOW THAT KERRY IS AN OPPORTUNISTIC LIAR WHO CANNOT BE TRUSTED WITH THE NATIONAL SECURITY.
- THEY MUST PLAY THE LKL TAPE.
Charles Krauthammer (Kerry's Afghan Amnesia, October 29, 2004) said it best:
President Bush put in place a military campaign that did in two months what everyone had said was impossible: defeat an entrenched, fanatical, ruthless regime in a territory that had forced the great British and Soviet empires into ignominious retreat. Bush followed that by creating in less than three years a fledgling pro-American democracy in a land that had no history of democratic culture and was just emerging from 25 years of civil war.
This is all barely remembered and barely noted. Most amazing of all, John Kerry has managed to transform our Afghan venture into a failure -- a botched operation in which Bush let Osama bin Laden get away because he "outsourced" bin Laden's capture to "warlords" in the battle of Tora Bora.
Outsourced? The entire Afghan war was outsourced. How does Kerry think we won it? How did Mazar-e Sharif, Kabul and Kandahar fall? Stormed by thousands of American GIs? They fell to the "warlords" we had enlisted, supported and directed. It was their militias that overran the Taliban.
"Outsourcing" is a demagogue's way of saying "using allies." (Isn't Kerry's Iraq solution to "outsource" the problem to the "allies" and the United Nations?) And in Afghanistan it meant the very best allies: locals who had a far better chance of knowing which cave to storm without getting blown up. As Kerry himself said on national television at the time of Tora Bora (Dec. 14, 2001): "What we are doing, I think, is having its impact and it is the best way to protect our troops and sort of minimalize the proximity, if you will" -- i.e., not throwing American lives away in tunnels and caves in alien territory. "I think we have been doing this pretty effectively and we should continue to do it that way."
Now, as always, the retroactive military genius says he would have done it differently. Yet in the same interview, when asked about how things were going overall in Afghanistan, he said, "I think we have been smart; I think the administration leadership has done it well and we are on the right track."
Once again, the senator's position has evolved, to borrow the New York Times' delicate term for Kerry's many about-faces.
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