The Coming Election of John Kerry

"At the present time, disparaging comments and insults made by John Kerry and his surrogates are being broadcast around the world to our soldiers and to Islamic militants as well as moderate Arabs."

If John Kerry is elected President of the United States in 2004, it will be the first retreat taken in the war against Islamic militants. It will send shock waves through out the world that the United States has lost its resolve in the fight of the century and it will signal the coming demise of civilization and especially freedom on this earth.

John Kerry is not a man of principle. He has chosen to challenge the effort undertaken by this country to fight the enemies that attacked our nation on September 11, 2001. John Kerry is a man who will say whatever he thinks he must in order to wrestle power from George Bush.

John Kerry comes from a mindset that views the United States as the aggressor nation in the world and the cause of exploitation and terrorism. He comes from a viewpoint that favors the positions taken by the former Soviet Union and Usama bin Ladin both. This viewpoint sees the U.S. and its influence, economically and militarily as a negative in the world and an influence that must go away. His hated enemy in his fight against U.S. international interests is anyone who favors a strong military and an expansion of U.S. economic alliances. John Kerry, from his first day until now has waged a consistent war against any effort by the United States to defend its vital interests in the world and prefers to demonize, marginalize, even to lie about the policies and motives of any American leader who has a view that celebrates the American way of doing things, the American system of freedom and American military influence in the world. He favored Jimmy Carter over Ronald Reagan and has consistently voted to diminish our military power and our ability to gather intelligence. This has been his career. These are his words:

"The Reagan Administration has no rational plan for our military. Instead, it acts on misinformed assumptions about the strength of the Soviet military and a presumed ‘window of vulnerability,’ which we now know not to exist."

"The biggest defense buildup since World War II has not given us a better defense. Americans feel more threatened by the prospect of war, not less so. And our national priorities become more and more distorted as the share of our country’s resources devoted to human needs diminishes.”

“If we don’t need the MX [multiple warhead ICBM], the B-1, or these other weapons systems ... [t]here’s no excuse for casting even one vote for unnecessary weapons of destruction, and as your Senator, I will never do so,” Kerry vowed.

Kerry on the Record: Bashing Reagan
NewsMax.com Monday, March 15, 2004
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/3/12/192323.shtml

Feb 18, 1970: “I’m an internationalist. “I’d like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.”

"Our democracy is a farce; it is not the best in the world." 1971

May 15, 1996: "So you can look at all the potential threats of the world, and when you add the expenditures of all of our allies to the United States of America, you have to stop and say to yourself, 'What is it that we are really preparing for in a post-cold-war world?'"

Apr 3, 2003: "If America is at war, I won't speak a word without measuring how it'll sound to the guys doing the fighting when they're listening to their radios in the desert."

Mar 10, 2004: The republican critics are "the most crooked ... lying group I've ever seen." myway (Listen)

"No, I was accusing American leaders of abandoning the troops. And if you read what I said, it is very clearly an indictment of leadership. I said to the Senate, where is the leadership of our country? And it's the leaders who are responsible, not the soldiers. I never said that."

Saturday, Feb. 21, 2004 9:23 a.m. EST
Kerry Denies Quotes Accusing U.S. Soliders of War Crimes
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/2/21/92521.shtml

Feb 14, 1986: "Kerry told about a dozen Massachusetts mayors he voted for the Gramm-Rudman deficit reduction bill to force the Reagan administration to cut defense spending. ... Kerry refused to commit himself to saving any military program and lectured mayors on the poor economics of much defense spending." (Kevin Landrigan, "Kerry: Defense Bills Aren't Jobs Bills," The [Lowell, MA] Sun)

Islamic militants can only benefit from such a view and indeed, it can be said that it is because of influential men who think like John Kerry that we were made vulnerable to attacks by these militants. It was Jimmy Carter that created the environment in which Iran emerged as a terrorist nation and it was Carter that was inept in responding forcefully to that emergence. It was Ronald Reagan and his policies of encouraging American economic power and ensuring that we were strong militarily who was able to stop the tide of Soviet expansion that John Kerry never opposed. Indeed, his actions after Vietnam indicate that he was on the Soviet side. More from Mr. Kerry:

“I think there has been an exaggeration of the terrorist threat.” John F. Kerry

“I'm glad the President finally found an economic development program. I'm just sad that it's only in Baghdad.” John F. Kerry

“The June 30 deadline is a fiction (for handover of power to the Iraqi government). You don't set an arbitrary date for the transfer of power to a nonentity.” John F. Kerry

Speaking of al-Sadr's newspaper, which was shut down by coalition forces last week after it urged violence against U.S. troops, Kerry complained to National Public Radio, -

"They shut a newspaper that belongs to a legitimate voice in Iraq."

Wednesday, April 7, 2004 10:41 a.m. EDT
Kerry: Terrorist Shiite Al-Sadr 'a Legitimate Voice'
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/4/7/104340.shtml

Q. Are you saying that Bush's conduct of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- not to mention the way he has pissed off our allies -- has been incompetent?

Kerry: Oh, absolutely. Worse than incompetent. Clouded by ideological excess, a misinterpretation of history, a willful denial of facts.

Q. Did you feel you were blindsided by Dean's success?

Kerry: Well, not blindsided. I mean, when I voted for the war, I voted for what I thought was best for the country. Did I expect Howard Dean to go off to the left and say, "I'm against everything"? Sure. Did I expect George Bush to fu@# it up as badly as he did? I don't think anybody did.

John Kerry's Desperate Hours
Rolling Stone Magazine
http://www.rollingstone.com/features/nationalaffairs/featuregen.asp?pid=2454

"We were misled not only in the intelligence but misled in the way that the president took us to war,"

Kerry: Bush Misled Congress
Democrats Cite Ex-Inspector's Statements on Lack of Weapons
By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, January 26, 2004
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47283-2004Jan25.html

"What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States"

Boston Globe, April 3, 2003

"Somebody told me the other day that the Secret Service has orders that if George Bush is shot, they're to shoot Quayle. … There isn't any press here, is there?"

Associated Press, Nov. 16, 1988

In 1997, Kerry questioned the size of the intelligence community during a speech on the floor of the Senate:

“[W]hy it is that our vast intelligence apparatus, built to sustain America in the long twilight struggle of the Cold War continues to grow at an exponential rate? Now that that struggle is over, why is it that our vast intelligence apparatus continues to grow even as government resources for new and essential priorities fall far short of what is necessary? Why is it that our vast intelligence apparatus continues to roll on even as every other government bureaucracy is subject to increasing scrutiny and, indeed, to reinvention?”

Kerry on the Record: Attacking U.S. Intelligence
Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com Thursday, Feb. 19, 2004
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/2/18/173209.shtml

Regarding Prime Minister of Iraq, Allawi: "The last thing you want to be seen as is a puppet of the United States, and you can almost see the hand underneath the shirt today moving the lips," said Joe Lockhart, a senior Kerry adviser.

At the present time, disparaging comments and insults made by John Kerry and his surrogates are being broadcast around the world to our soldiers and to Islamic militants as well as moderate Arabs. What kind of doubt do these comments create in our soldiers? What do they communicate to the terrorists except: let’s keep up the pressure? And what will moderate Arabs all over the world think about where America stands? This is not just the free speech rights of John Kerry that are at issue. The real issue is that of judgment and leadership. Kerry is conducting his campaign as if his only constituency is made up of the street radicals against the Vietnam war and the G8 Summits of our day - the people who were arrested in the streets of the Republican Convention. This kind of negative and anti-establishmentarian rhetoric appeals to them, but not to hard working and security-minded Americans, all of whom lived through the trauma of September 11th. As a prominent leader of this nation and as a candidate for the highest office in the world, he has an obligation to conduct himself with respect, to deal in issues not insults and to offer a viable, but respectful opposition to George Bush. Presenting insulting rhetoric to the world that consists of nothing more than a scatter-shot (or shotgun) approach, criticizing anything without reference to facts, without reference to a clearly presented doctrine of political theory and without thought of the consequences is not the stuff of which a leader and a hero are made.

The war against Islamic militants is the most important war of this century and as we speak these madmen are attempting to sneak into Iraq to create havoc and doubt about our resolve. They want to defeat George Bush, the man whose policies and actions have reduced their numbers by over 50%, the man who has them on the run, the man who has taken away some of their sanctuaries and who responded forcefully to the September 11 attacks. If they can stop us in Iraq, they will have the haven they need in order to continue their war to destroy our nation. The statements made by John Kerry in his campaign, just as the statements he made when he returned from Vietnam have the effect of helping the enemy. Even now, his sister is in Australia trying to do everything she can to influence the election against Prime Minister John Howard, a member of our coalition. Is this helping America to win the war or is it sabotage? After Kerry has insulted all of our present allies will he develop a new coalition with France, Germany and Cuba? Is this the superior diplomacy of which he is capable? We must think clearly about whether we are going to show a united front in this war. We cannot allow Kerry, as he did in Vietnam with success, to cause us to lose this war and we certainly cannot put this Vietnam and Iraq war protestor in charge of our nation. If Kerry wins this election, we all lose.

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