Kerry lays out plan on terror (Voted against body armor spending measure last year)

sacbee.com ^ | 02/28/04 | Dan Smith

[KQQL]

Assailing Bush's efforts, he calls for more troops and police officers.

LOS ANGELES - Seeking to zero in on the differences between himself and a wartime president, Sen. John Kerry on Friday laid out a broad plan for dealing with threats both at home and abroad, and said President Bush has "fallen short" on his vow to protect Americans after the 2001 terrorist attacks.

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[GeronL]

when did the Federal Government take over local police and fire departments??

[KQQL]

when gay-marriage issue became a state issue

[GeronL]

These people and the media amaze me. They will say anything and make things up without any worries about being taken to the woodshed.

[alaskanfan]

The Massachusetts Democrat, looking to stretch his delegate lead in Tuesday's primary election in California and voting in nine other states, said he would add 40,000 military personnel and 200,000 police and firefighters to America's ranks. The CIA, moreover, would assume the undisputed lead in intelligence efforts and would launch "a major initiative in public diplomacy" to push "the next generation of Islamic youth" toward democracy, he said.

And he would veto any bill that crossed his desk with funds to support these measures.

[the_Watchman]

While Kerry asserted Friday that military families have had to pay for their own body armor, the Bush campaign said that he voted against a body armor spending measure just last year.

I was in the U.K. last month on business. The BBC was just gearing up an assault on Tony Blair based on the lack of sufficient body armor for the troops. The press found a soldier who had written home stating that he had had to give up his body armor to soldiers who were stationed further toward the front. This soldier was later killed. (They never stated whether it was a situation where body armer would have helped.)

The BBC had the widow on TV demanding "accountability" from the defense secretary. "Somebody has to take responsibility!" We heard it during every news broadcast for a week.

I was expecting a similar campaign back here, but I guess the press found out that too many of the Democrat presidential candidates had come down on the "wrong" side of the vote.

[KQQL]

I was expecting a similar campaign back here, but I guess the press found out that too many of the Democrat presidential candidates had come down on the "wrong" side of the vote.

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[bornintexas]

Kerry's rhetoric is getting louder and louder to the point it is about to bust my eardrums. Like Glenn Beck says....get out the duck tape and wrap your head before it explodes. The audacity of this pompous ass! How dare he! The media has got to be stopped. He continues his barrage of lies because of their duplicity. It's sickening.

[Husker24]

He also promised to make the United States "energy independent" from the Middle East within 10 years "so our sons and daughters will never have to fight and die for it."

Even though I hated Clintons politics, he never seemed like a prick to me. This guy Kerry has all of Clintons bad qualities, and is an as@shole to boot. Energy independant in 10 years my ass. His plan probably involves a Federal car tax so huge, that people wont be able of afford a vehicle, there by rendering us "energy independant".

[stylin19a]

um...how does he add 200,000 soldiers to a volunteer military ?..can't do it without a draft.

[KQQL]

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said he would add 40,000 military personnel and 200,000 police and firefighters to America's ranks. The

[stylin19a]

oh duh....thanx

[VxH]

Gee, this has a familiar odor....

 

Invisible COPS 
How Clinton's plan to field 100,000 new police turned into a pork barrel as usual.
By Steve Chapman
Posted Monday, Nov. 12, 2001, at 12:38 PM PT
http://slate.msn.com/id/2058553/

 

[xm177e2]

The CIA, moreover, would assume the undisputed lead in intelligence efforts and would launch "a major initiative in public diplomacy" to push "the next generation of Islamic youth" toward democracy, he said.

In other words, Kerry wants to disrupt the focus of the CIA from anti-terror operations (and our national security in general) so he can try to win over Muslim youth by making empty promises he has no intention of following through on? I mean, why should anyone believe Kerry will stand behind the propaganda his CIA releases if he isn't willing to stand up for anything else? Why should those Islamic youths believe anything he says?

[Paleo Conservative]

Basically he would do all the things that would have been impossible if he had been on the winning side on votes on military programs over the last 20 years.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Sen. John Kerry on Friday...said President Bush has "fallen short" on his vow to protect Americans after the 2001 terrorist attacks.

How can he even SAY this?

[KQQL]

How can he even SAY this?

He can say whatever he wants to ...BECAUSE he served in nam...don't you know.........lol

[Welsh Rabbit]

The audacity of this pompous ass! How dare he! The media has got to be stopped. He continues his barrage of lies because of their duplicity. It's sickening.

Don't let it bother you too much. Bush hasn't started his campaign yet. When Ketchup Boy is called to answer for his overwhelmingly anti-defense voting record or how he can accuse Bush of purposely misleading the nation into going to war when he had access to all the same intelligence and voted for the resolution to go, he'll have nothing to say except that he was in Vietnam. The mainstream media will try to spin for him, but they are no longer the all powerful machine they once were, and trying to polish a turd like him will be no easy task. He also has the dork factor working against him. Kerry's strutting around and talking trash because he beat the other dwarves, but the real fight hasn't even started yet.

[AHerald]

The media has got to be stopped. He continues his barrage of lies because of their duplicity.It's sickening.

So right. It would not even be possible for any prominent Republican candidate for public office--much less a Republican presidential candidate--to get away with saying a fraction the stuff Kerry says without being excoriated by the media. The Orwellian double standard is enraging, and it is definitely sickening.

[Feckless]

appoint "a special envoy the quality of Bill Clinton"

So Kerry plans to fight the war on terror with lying, draft-dodging, horndogs? The Dems better get some of their welfare mammas to a fertility clinic, quick!

[hershey]

Clinton is a sociopath. Kerry can't begin to match him, but he's willing to give it the old college try.

[FreedomPoster]

If someone sent Bill Clinton to my country as a "Special Envoy", I would consider it an act of War.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Well, that comprehensive plan should lay to rest any doubts about Senator Kerry's courage and foresight for leading America in its war against terrorism! PLEASE!

[dr_who_2]

These Democrat presidential candidates always like promising to put N-thousand police on the beat, etc.

[mware]

Ed Gillespie is ahead of the Kerry's camp on this one. When Terry attempted to go after the president because the loved ones on military in action have to buy their own body armor, Ed's come back was Kerry voted against the bill that would have supplied the body armor for them.

[Prodigal Son]

I agree with Husker24. Kerry makes Clinton look like a stand-up guy.

If the vote were between Clinton and Kerry I'd vote for Slick William.

[Howlin]

Read and remember this.

[Carolinamom]

As per Fox, Kerry is now accusing Bush of "neglecting Haiti".

[Rome2000]

Video

Vets Demonstrate Against 'Jane Fonda Kerry' on Park Ave

[BigSkyFreeper]

Many of us FReepers here are well aware Kerry voted against the body armor, and now the parents of these brave soldiers are having to pay for the body armor themselves. The Democrats should be ashamed they gutted the military all the while The Bent One was in office. McAwful got slammed onto the mat over this on Fox News Sunday by Gillespie and Chris Wallace. The media needs to be hammering away at the Democratic wannabe's over this, rather than giving those 4 dingbats, especially Kerry, who I know voted against arming our troops, a freakin' pass.

[Lady Jag]

[eddie willers]

If the vote were between Clinton and Kerry I'd vote for Slick William.

I'd rather eat bees.

[Prodigal Son]

I'd rather eat bees than vote for Kerry ;-)

He's truly evil.

[eddie willers]

"I'd rather eat bees than vote for Kerry"

Have we got the makings of a bumper sticker? :o)

[cyncooper]

Even though I hated Clintons politics, he never seemed like a prick to me.

I hate to burst your bubble, but Clinton is a grade A prick and a**hole par excellance. He just managed to slickly deliver his insults, betrayals, and undermining and dividing of our country, fooling some into thinking he had humor or some saving grace. He's worse than Kerry, who as you correctly note, is also a prick. Hateful and negative, he doesn't deliver as smoothly as clinton.

[firewalk]

Read and remember this...

Thanks for the ping Howlin
bttt

[Spotsy]

He also promised to make the United States "energy independent" from the Middle East within 10 years "so our sons and daughters will never have to fight and die for it."

[Kerry's] plan probably involves a Federal car tax so huge, that people wont be able of afford a vehicle, there by rendering us "energy independent".

Unbelievable as it may be to most Americans, the liberal enviros are salivating at the thought of taking our cars away from us - in the name of energy independence and clean air - but really to keep us little folk less mobile, easier to manage - and it will have the added advantage of differentiating between us and them, the enlightened aristocracy and their Hollywood friends.

[Spotsy]

On the subject of body armor - does anyone have stats and sources to get a handle on how many of our service men and women were sent to Iraq without body armor, or without the best armor?

This subject shouldn't be bandied about without some handle on the extent of the problem - and the source of the information.

It's about our troops - not politics.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Kerry said his CIA chief would be "a true director of national intelligence with real control of intelligence personnel and budgets."

LOL! Probably some bespecaled, homosexual, recent graduate of Berkeley who majored in Accounting.

[Spotsy]

A Kerry cabinet and administration would likely be more wacky than Clinton's - if that is possible.

The confirmation hearings would be a circus.

[Defender2]

kerry and The rest of the demoCommiecRATs strings are pulled by these people:


http://www.dsausa.org/

and are governed by these people:

http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/wndarchive/19519.html

demoCommiecRATs = one truly sorry, pathetic, sick, sad, bad
Freak Show!!!!

[oldtimer]

Good one Rabbit. The lib networks will try to spin it, dodge it, but times have changed.

Big bucks in the Bush campaign chest, and the internet will make a big difference.

Meanwhile, Sheeple will still be sheeple, and they are the rat hopes along with the help of Professors et ilk for the young ones in college who have a vote, but aren't dry behind the ears yet.

[baseballmom]

On the subject of body armor - does anyone have stats and sources to get a handle on how many of our service men and women were sent to Iraq without body armor, or without the best armor?

I would like an answer to this too. I don't want our troops used as political pawns. They deserve the best we have.