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VEEP TALK FOR KERRY & KERREY 2 hours, 40 minutes ago Add Op/Ed - New York Post By DEBORAH ORIN BOB KERREY'S star turn as a 9/11 commission member is sparking talk that he could join pal John Kerry (news - web sites) on a 2004 Democratic ticket of Kerry-Kerrey. A Kerry-Kerrey ticket would offer a double-echoing message with two decorated Vietnam vets (Kerrey won the Medal of Honor) who both share the same name (give or take an "e"). And Bob Kerrey has roots in the pivotal Midwest. Veep talk was fueled when Kerrey eloquently rose above politics to...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Impassioned and incredulous, Bob Kerrey held little back in criticizing both the Clinton and Bush administration for the way they dealt with Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida before Sept. 11. It was a big mistake, said the commissioner on the federal panel investigating the attacks, not to use military force against a terrorist organization already suspected in attacks against U.S. interests since the early 1990s. The former Democratic senator from Nebraska did not spare high-ranking officials from either administration who testified over two days of public hearings on Capitol Hill. "I just want to say for the...

“You, senator, I know, were the only person that I know of who suggested declaring war. In retrospect, you were probably right.” Those were the words of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, on the first day of the Sept. 11 commission’s hearings, after being questioned by commissioner and former Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.) about the Clinton administration’s tepid response to the terrorist attacks that occurred from 1993 to 2000. What Albright didn’t say was that back in the summer of 1998, at the time of al Qaeda’s attacks on U.S. embassies in Africa, a lot of people were talking...

The revelation in the April 25, 2001 New York Times Magazine that former senator Bob Kerrey murdered innocent women and children in Vietnam has exposed a sharp division in American public opinion over questions of military ethics. Kerrey admitted to having participated, as a young Navy SEALs lieutenant, in a massacre of 13 unarmed Vietnamese women and children in the tiny village of Thanh Phong. Exactly how the incident, which occurred in February of 1969, took place still isn't clear. According to Kerrey, his SEAL commando squad mistakenly believed they were under fire; but one of the members of that...

WASHINGTON - Frustrated by Bush administration restrictions, a former senator said yesterday he might quit the special commission investigating the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Ex-Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.), now president of New York's New School University, told the Daily News that resigning is "on my list of possibilities" because the administration continues to block the full panel's access to top intelligence officials and materials. "I am no longer ... feeling comfortable that I'm going to be able to read and process what I need in order to participate in writing a report about how it was that 19 men defeated...

                                    U.S. Senate                                 Committee on Armed Services,                                Washington, DC, October 9, 1998.       The President,       The White House, Washington, DC.           Dear Mr. President: We are writing to express our concern        over recent developments in Iraq.           Last February, the Senate was working on a resolution        supporting military action if diplomacy did not succeed in        convincing Saddam Hussein to comply with the United Nations        Security Council resolutions concerning the disclosure and        destruction of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. This        effort was discontinued when the Iraqi government reaffirmed        its...

<p>November 7, 2003 -- POLITICS is an honor- able profession prac- ticed by men and women who occasionally do dishonorable things. On the playing field of national politics, the competition between the two major parties (also known as partisan politics) is most often constructive because it is a means by which we become a more perfect union.</p>

<p>In less than 15 months Americans will go to the polls to decide whether to give President Bush four more years or to select instead one of the nine Democratic candidates who are now vying for the nomination of their party. As a Democrat and a former candidate myself, I have been watching with great interest, respect and sympathy for those who suffer the various ordeals of a grueling campaign schedule.</p>

<p>One of the greatest dangers of democracy is contained in this hard truth: Sometimes public opinion is wrong and can stifle the critical thinking necessary for a democracy to consider all available options. Indeed sometimes public opinion is not just wrong, it can be destructive.</p>

With congressional election campaigns in full roar, Terence McAuliffe, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, this year sent out fund-raising letters charging Republicans with plans to dismantle our Social Security system. As I see it, McAuliffe is guilty of mail fraud. First, the letters imply that the plan requires most, if not all, Social Security tax revenues to be invested in stocks. This is false. Under the Bush plan no taxpayer is required to invest any revenues in the stock market. The investment is entirely voluntary and is limited to no more than 16 percent of the payroll tax....