Let's see...before 9-11 the USS Cole attack, Embassy bobming, 93 World trade tower attacks, Olkahoma bombing, Beruit bombing, Northern Ireland, Isreal, etc....Yep I guess before then terrorist were just a nuisance...
Posted on 10/10/2004 6:32:29 PM PDT by swmopatriot
Excerpt from CNN Article:
Kerry campaign spokesman Phil Singer called the Republican charges "absolutely ridiculous."
"This is yet another example of the Bush campaign taking John Kerry's words out of context, and then blowing it up into something that is nothing," he said.
"The whole article is about how John Kerry recognizes that the war on terror requires a multipronged approach. It's not just the military aspect, but you need diplomacy to be able to enlist your allies. The Bush people have never understood that. John Kerry has always said that terrorism is the No. 1 threat to the U.S."
Now, an excerpt of the transcript from the first debate:
LEHRER: New question, two minutes, Senator Kerry.
If you are elected president, what will you take to that office thinking is the single most serious threat to the national security to the United States?
KERRY: Nuclear proliferation. Nuclear proliferation. There's some 600-plus tons of unsecured material still in the former Soviet Union and Russia.
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The other side will spin it as saying "nuclear profiliration leads to terrorism"
Yea but it doesn't help that the President agreed with him... Bush was off his game big time... because he should have brought out the big stick and slammed back NO the biggest threat is the Terrorists that want to Kill US and I agree that Nuclear proliferation plays a huge roll in the terrorist ability to get nuclear material etc etc etc.......
Such as calling them "coerced and bribed," and minimizing their contributions? Such as just about publicly calling the Iraqi prim minister a liar, and a puppet of Bush?
Kerry's utter tone deafnessa to the consequences of public utterances and lack of nuance makes him totally unqualified to be president.
I think you are right, but then that would seem to contradict Kerry's stance that this isn't a war but rather a problem for law enforcement. Anytime nuclear weapons become involved in a situation it moves beyond the realm of a "nuisance" for any retional person.
I really wish he would have said that too, he really was off his game on that one.
I await the explanation of a "Multiprong Plan for Nuisance Avoidance."
Denial can be multiprong.
Kerry passed hiw own global test - nothing will ever constitute an act of war. Nothing.
The UN considers terrorism a nuisance, and so does John Kerry.
You may have misunderstood Kerry because he went on in the first debate to say that it was the US that had the nuclear weapons that needed to be gotten rid of (Bunker busters).
That was the nuclear proliferation that he specifially complained about. (Sarcasm).
It really is becoming laughable when Kerry's spokespersons have to come out every day and tell us not to pay attention to what Kerry said - pay attention to how we spin it. How many times has this happened? Oh but according to ABC news, Bush is the bad guy for pointing out these dangerous policy statements to the public before the elect this fool to the highest office in the free world.
Kerry has said this twice, in each of the debates, and pointed to the remaining materials in former USSR as the biggest danger of proliferation, ignoring the AQKahn network and Libya nor the stocks of yellow cake and enriched uranium removed from Iraq over previous months.
it's positively abominable. and the press won't call them on it.
Next question to Mr. Kerry: You have criticized US companies moving operations off-shore and called the "Benedict Arnold" corporations. Since your wife has moved 57 divisions of the Heinz Corporation off-shore, how do you justify sleeping with the enemy? You have two minutes.
Bush did correct Kerry. Kerry said the biggest threat was nuclear proliferation and Bush agreed adding "in the hands of terrorists".
I understood that as Bush reminding Kerry that we aren't still fighting the Soviets but terrorists.
Let's see...before 9-11 the USS Cole attack, Embassy bobming, 93 World trade tower attacks, Olkahoma bombing, Beruit bombing, Northern Ireland, Isreal, etc....Yep I guess before then terrorist were just a nuisance...
Very nice catch.
He actually thought that nuclear proliferation was the single most serious threat to the US before he didn't.
Standing headline in all US papers: "Kerry clarifies earlier statment"
Terrorism is:
a) The no. 1 threat to the US
b) A law enforcement issue
c) A nuisance
d) All of the above
I probably missed that terrorist response part.. but I sure wish he would have hammered him ... Its Ok though because he made up for it Friday and he will cream him on Wednesday... I feel the storm coming... This one is gonna be all about how John Kerry fails to realize what the threat is... The connections of the Job losses that Kerry keeps pounding and the economy that Kerry keeps pounding, Iraq, Homeland Security its all connected... Kerry's arguments only hold water if you forget all about 9/11... the simple fact is you just can't....
I agree with you wildwood. Monday morning quarterbacking has been going on since we invaded Afghanistan when the "former generals and diplomats" would sit on TV a critisize everything. I think they even at one point proclaimed Afghanistan another "Vietnam". Whenever Kerry says "I wouldn't do just one thing different, I would do almost everything different". I just want to scream that of course in hindsight its SOOOOOOOOOOO easy to be right.
Remember on GMA he told Diane Sawyer that he Would go into Iraq depending on the outcome!
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