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

To: puborectalis who wrote (18393)	10/13/2004 1:35:51 PM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 27181

John Kerry; Wrong Candidate, Wrong Place, Wrong Time By Edward Abraham Oct. 13, 2004 I've never trusted people who seem to have an answer for everything. More often than not, this attribute is more indicative of a slick salesperson than someone of true substance. And true leaders are those who admit when they do not have all of the answers. In fact, our judgement as people is often based on the fact that we do not have perfect knowledge. We make decisions in our lives which improve the odds of a happy, successful existence knowing full-well there are no guarantees. We may go to college, or send our kids to college, to improve the chances of landing a good job and maximizing potential. Parents make rules and set guidelines for their kids to reduce the likelihood of them getting into trouble. We exercise and try to eat healthy to reduce the possibility of early disease and other problems. The point is, despite our best efforts, life hands us surprises and nuances that we could never plan for. Going to college does not assure a happy, successful career. Exercising and eating right does not guarantee a long life and even an obsessive parent cannot assure that their children will not make their own mistakes. From the beginning, President Bush made it abundantly clear to me that Saddam Hussein and Iraq, after 9/11, had to be resolved to reduce the likelihood of a future attack on our nation, one which could dwarf the 9/11 attacks. For the most part, terrorists lack a true nation-state through which they can more easily obtain funding, intelligence and materials which they could then use against the U.S. and the rest of the free world. Once the Taliban fell, the next logical risk area was indeed Hussein's regime. Bush knew that taking down Hussein's regime would not guarantee U.S. security, but it definitely would assure that terrorists would not be receiving weapons and other support from Hussein. He made a decision based upon available information at the time, one which was approved by a vote of the U.S. legislature and was in line with UN Resolution 1441 which compelled Saddam Hussein to disarm and show proof of the destruction of his known weapons or face "serious consequences." President Bush acknowledged that he did not have all of the answers and this is why we had to take measures to ensure Iraq would not be an ongoing threat to the world. We could no longer afford the uncertainty posed by gathering threats like Hussein. Now, we have a candidate in John Kerry who seeks to hold Bush accountable for not having the 20/20 vision that hindsight provides. Weapons of mass destruction were not found in Iraq, so the entire war was the wrong one at the wrong place at the wrong time. This viewpoint ignores the bulk of the case made for invading Iraq in the first place. Senator John Kerry further offers an answer for virtually every other world issue while nitpicking the performance of Bush over the last four years. John Kerry manipulates and twists current-day knowledge to judge Bush's decisions when that knowledge was not and could not be known at the time Bush's decision was due. Kerry tells us what he would have done if he were president under the same circumstances, yet John Kerry has never been president under any circumstances so he himself does not truly know how he would have reacted. There was only one person on earth who was presient of this country on 9/11/01, and that's George W. Bush. Now, we all suffered a loss from those attacks, but none of us truly knows what it felt like to be at the helm of this nation when those planes slammed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania--not John Kerry, not John Edwards not Sean Penn or Barbra Streisand--only President Bush knows this feeling. Now, John Kerry tells us, if he is elected, he is going to win the war in Iraq (a war he happens to be against); "hunt down and kill" terrorists around the world wherever they may hide (but in a more gentle way); provide health care for anyone who wants it while reducing costs and maintaining the current standard of quality we've come to expect (while allowing frivolous lawsuits and lawyers to continue raping the system); clean up the air and water that Bush's policies have sullied (even though objective measures show the air and water are cleaner than ever under Bush); keep our foreign allies happy and cheerful (even those who's interests are fundamentally opposed to ours); cut taxes on the middle class (though he's never shown a propensity to cut taxes on anyone). Heck, John Edwards is even promising that handicapped citizens will get up out of their wheelchairs and walk once he and Kerry are in office. All of these promises from two gentlemen who have few actual accomplishments to point to between them. And they plan to pay for all of this by simply rolling back Bush's tax cuts on "the rich." Kerry fought for four months in Vietnam and Edwards earned a fortune chasing after doctors and hospitals who were not performing enough dangerous c-section deliveries. As I said at the beginning of this writing, I'm wary of people who promise the world, who seemingly have all of the answers. Life is just not like that. I'd rather have a leader who acknowledges the imperfections of life and plans accordingly than someone who contends that everything can be perfect while offering no plan.