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

To: calgal who wrote (17967)	10/12/2004 12:00:13 AM
From: calgal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27181

Kerry Compares War on Terror to Prostitution, Illegal Gambling (CNSNews.com) - Sen. John F. Kerry -- in an interview with Sunday's New York Times Magazine -- said the Sept. 11 attacks "didn't change me much at all"; and said he hopes the country will return to the days when terrorism was "just a nuisance," the same way that prostitution and illegal gambling are a nuisance. In the interview published on Sunday, Kerry told New York Times reporter Matt Bai, "As a former law-enforcement person, I know we're never going to end prostitution. We're never going to end illegal gambling. But we're going to reduce it, organized crime, to a level where it isn't on the rise -- it isn't threatening people's lives every day, and fundamentally, it's something that you continue to fight, but it's not threatening the fabric of your life.'" Said reporter Matt Bai, "When I asked Kerry how Sept. 11 had changed him, either personally or politically, he seemed to freeze for a moment. 'It accelerated - ' Kerry paused. 'I mean, it didn't change me much at all.'" The Bush campaign blasted Kerry's remarks in a new TV ad: "Terrorism, a nuisance?" the Bush ad asks. "How can Kerry protect us when he doesn't understand the threat?" The Kerry campaign fired back with an ad telling voters that President Bush recently said he doubted that the war on terrorism could ever be won. A few days after his comment to NBC Today show anchor Matt Lauer, President Bush said he meant that the terrorists would never surrender: "In this different kind of war, we may never sit down at a peace table," Bush said. "But make no mistake about it, we are winning and we will win." The Bush campaign is trying to make the point that Sen. Kerry does not have a workable plan to win the war on terror. Kerry continues to emphasize diplomacy, saying he would bring other countries into the war effort -- and blasting President Bush for going it alone in Iraq -- an insult to the 30 nations that are helping the U.S., the Bush campaign says. Bush says Kerry -- by calling the war in Iraq "the wrong war at the wrong time in the wrong place" -- isn't likely to rally allies such as France and Germany to his side. hJRL:ttp://www.townhall.com/news/politics/200410/POL20041011b.shtml