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

To: tonto who wrote (19941)	10/18/2004 3:57:43 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 27181

Kerry fires off withering double attack on Bush TAMPA, United States (AFP) - Democrat challenger John Kerry (news - web sites) reeled off a biting attack on President George W. Bush (news - web sites), charging him with making Americans more vulnerable to terror and less healthy by eroding healthcare. Kerry's tone was noticeably more sarcastic and sneering than in previous speeches, as the race for the White House turned increasingly negative two weeks and one day before the November 2 election. He accused Bush of "clinging to the idea" that great progress was being made in Iraq (news - web sites) and told him to "come clean" on unflattering reports the Democrat said the president was receiving from generals. "Mr President, you can chose to ignore the facts, but in the end you can't hide the truth from the American people. "The bottom line Mr President: your mismanagement of the war has made Iraq and America less safe and secure than they could have been and should have been today." Kerry was speaking in Tampa, Florida, minutes after Bush wound up what aides described as a "major" address on anti-terrorism policy in New Jersey, home to many of the victims of the September 11 attacks in 2001. Bush said Kerry would abandon Iraq and leave the United States vulnerable to attacks like those of September 11, 2001. "Senator Kerry's approach would permit a response only after America is hit. This kind of September 10 attitude is no way to protect our country," he told hundreds of supporters in a municipal building here. The language of Kerry's assault was equally direct and came perhaps closer than ever before to saying that the president had lied to Americans about the war. It was delivered on a day when early voting opened in Florida, four years after the state was ground zero in the US election debacle resolved in favour of Bush by the US Supreme Court. Earlier, across Florida in West Palm Beach, Kerry unloaded his first attack of the day on Bush. Kerry complained that Bush was "always talking tough about what he does for the troops" but had failed to give them the supplies they needed to fight the war in Iraq. He jumped on a report in Monday's Washington Post, which said the top US commander in Iraq, General Ricardo Sanchez complained last year his supplies were so poor that they threatened the troops' ability to fight. "The day after Sanchez wrote that letter, you know what George Bush (news - web sites) went out and told the American people? He said our troops were properly equipped," Kerry said. "Despite the president's arrogant boasting that he has done everything right in Iraq and made no mistakes, the truth is beginning to catch up with him." Kerry also hammered Bush on health care, a key issues in Florida where which is home to millions of senior citizens. He recalled that Bush had met his attacks on Republican health care policy in their final presidential debate last week by branding them a "litany of complaints." "There you have it folks, George Bush's answer to our health care problems is to tell the American people: stop whining. That's George Bush isn't it." Kerry also castigated Bush over the shortage of flu vaccines in the United States, ahead of an expected epidemic of the ailment this year. "Just today we learned that a town in New Jersey is being forced to use a lottery system to decide who will get a flu shot. George Bush is telling us you have to get lucky to get health care." Kerry blames Bush for rising drug prices, a prohibition on importing cheaper drugs from Canada, and presiding over rises in prices charged by what Democrats say are his friends in drug companies and insurance companies. The Democrat challenger wants to provide health care for all children in the United States, and reform insurance plans. Republicans charge however that Kerry's plan would simply be a massive government spending program that would rob patients of health care choices.