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To: Sig who wrote (74715)	10/4/2004 6:54:44 AM
From: tbancroft	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793915

Kerry has a poor memory-no wonder he needs notes . learnedhand.com; I don't know why he needs notes. He says whatever is convenient, not what is true. Excerpted from your link: When presented with the details of the assassination plot from the Kansas City meeting, his first reaction was to lie. Oh, yeah, I forgot. His handlers wanted him to be consistent in the debate. Hard to do when you're dissembling. Further evidence of his propensity to mislead from the uncorrelated blog (emphasis mine): uncorrelated.com <Kerry's presidential debate performance was, as usual very short on substance, but there was one moment when Kerry actually made a concrete proposal to deal with one of the many foreign policy problems we are confronted with (and that we've ALWAYS been confronted with, but that Clinton and the press conspired to keep quiet...) I think the United States should have offered the opportunity to provide the nuclear fuel, test them [Iran], see whether or not they were actually looking for it for peaceful purposes. If they weren't willing to work a deal, then we could have put sanctions together. The president did nothing. It took about three days to reveal what any moderately educated person already knows--the Iranians are not, contrary to Kerry's cynical rhetoric, people with good intentions ready to cooperate if the U.S. would just "play nice". Iran dismissed US Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's proposal to supply fuel for Iranian nuclear power plants if Tehran chose to shelve its own program for nuclear fuel cycle, IRNA reported from Tehran on Sunday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said the proposal, made at the first face-to-face debate between Kerry and President George W. Bush Friday night, was a 'propaganda' overture. "What guarantees are there if they say one day 'we do not want to give fuel anymore'?" he said. "I think this issue is basically irrational since we have the necessary technology and there is no need to import nuclear fuel," Asefi said during a weekly news briefing. Kerry, criticizing Bush's policies in the debate, saying the United States should have worked very closely with Britain, France and Germany on a deal with Tehran if Iran had accepted to abandon its program for complete fuel cycle. Iran says its nuclear program is aimed at power generation, rejecting US accusations that the program is a cover to build an atomic bomb. What Kerry is proposing here is actually a ressurection of Clinton's failed mitigation of North Korea's nuclear program, for which Kerry had the temerity to criticize Bush and blame him for North Korea's development of nuclear weapons. Once more demonstrating his utter disdain for the intelligence of the American people, Kerry simply assumed that we would have forgotten, if we ever knew, that the North Koreans took Clinton's light-water reactors his economic normalization and oil bribes, and simply changed the basis of their program from plutonium derived from breeder reactors to uranium enrichment (a process of increasing the concentration of U235 isotope to high levels). The North Koreans admitted their deception in 2002 and began the process of converting their existing stocks of plutonium into fissile cores. Kerry of course knows all this, but he reflects the Democrat view that the American people are children to be lied to. Tell black people that Republicans are trying to prevent them from voting. Tell young people that the draft is coming back. Tell old people that their social security is going away. Tell us all that the war against terror consists of finding a sick old man living in a cave. Setting aside the affront to our collective intelligence, Kerry's absolutely wrong-headed approach to dealing with a very dangerous world is by far the scariest aspect of his candidacy. We simply cannot affort to go back to our naive, September 10th policies so Democrats can pull down federal paychecks and black bags from trial lawyers.>