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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MrLucky who wrote (11022)	9/20/2004 11:07:09 AM
From: Ken W	Respond to of 27181

Mr. Lucky Copied from an article dated today in "Journel for Public Integrity". Interesting: "In 1991 the Senate created the Select Senate Committee on POW/MIA Affairs to investigate the possibility that U.S. prisoners of war and soldiers designated missing in action were still alive in Vietnam. Acting as chairman, Kerry helped persuade the group to vote unanimously that no American servicemen still remained in Vietnam. In doing so, he helped begin the process of normalizing U.S.-Vietnamese relations. But Kerry's participation in the Committee became controversial in December 1992 when Hanoi announced that it had awarded Colliers International, a Boston-based real estate company, an exclusive deal to develop its commercial real estate potentially worth billions. Stuart Forbes, the CEO of Colliers, is Kerry's cousin." Ken

To: MrLucky who wrote (11022)	9/20/2004 11:34:16 AM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 27181

No president has failed us like Bush has. Perhaps JBJ comes closest, another Texan tied to Halliburton type interests. He also lied to us and escalated and mismanaged an unnecessary war. But Bush is operating during an urgent war on terror where he has promised to keep us safer. Bush lied. Not only that but he has made the wong decisions every time. And every one of us have or will pay for this war. If we don't have a loved one killed or wounded, we will at least each shell out an average of $5000 for this war. Bush's war. Bush's huge mistake. Our headache and debt. Kerry alone can fix this now.

To: MrLucky who wrote (11022)	9/20/2004 3:16:41 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 27181

Her hero's mistake: For Kerry, It's Always Vietnam The subtext of John Kerry's Monday morning Iraq speech. by William Kristol 09/20/2004 weeklystandard.com. IN THE MIDST of all the committee-produced and consultant-shaped verbiage of John Kerry's "major" speech on Iraq today, one paragraph stands out as being truly Kerry's own: "It is never easy to discuss what has gone wrong while our troops are in constant danger. But it's essential if we want to correct our course and do what's right for our troops instead of repeating the same mistakes over and over again. I know this dilemma firsthand. After serving in war, I returned home to offer my own personal voice of dissent. I did so because I believed strongly that we owed it to those risking their lives to speak truth to power. We still do." When Kerry returned home to voice his dissent in 1971, his message was clear: "We should be out of Vietnam now." Kerry speaks of today as an analogous moment. This confirms what is in any case evident from the bulk of his speech: Beneath all the phony talk of international summits and making Iraq "the world's responsibility," Kerry's policy would be to get us out of Iraq. That's why Kerry never says we need to win the war in Iraq, or that we can. Instead, he now explicitly says we would be better off with Saddam still in power. John Kerry views the war in Iraq as unnecessary, as a mistake. When Kerry spoke "truth to power" 33 years ago, he famously asked, "how do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" Wouldn't that same question govern his actions as president? Kerry says in his speech that he would start the withdrawal of U.S. forces next summer, and would seek to complete it in four years. But would he even wait four years before completing a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq? However long it actually took, a President Kerry would make getting out of Iraq his top priority, thus handing a victory to the terrorists in what Prime Minister Blair called Sunday "the crucible in which the future of global terrorism will be determined." William Kristol is editor of The Weekly Standard.