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Saturday, 18 September 2004

Snipe from the Left
The folks at RedState have linked to an interesting column by Howard Zinn, professor emeritus at Boston University and a "progressive," which, by now, we all know means liberal.

Zinn observes of Kerry:

He needs to stop saying, as he did recently in the Midwest, that he defended this country when he was fighting in Vietnam. That is not an honest statement. If it were true, then he would not have turned against the war.

He was not defending this country when he fought in Vietnam. He was defending this country when he said we were wrong to be in Vietnam and we should get out.

He should not be saying that he will wage the Iraq war better, that he will replace U.S. troops with soldiers from other countries. If it is immoral for our soldiers to be occupying Iraq and killing Iraqis every day, then it is immoral for foreign soldiers to do the same.

Zinn's thoughts are probably closer to Kerry's own than Kerry would openly admit, but what is the poor man to do? Kerry's voting history in the United States Senate is one long string of miscalculations: he misunderstood Communism and worked to appease its propagators; has mistrusted the military and intelligence communities and has voted to cut their funding at many important moments; and has misjudged the Islamofascist threat, behaving in a schizoid manner in the face of a new war.

I wouldn't trust John Kerry with a sack of shit.

Posted by Toby Petzold at 11:24 PM CDT | Post Comment | View Comments (3) | Permalink

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Sunday, 19 September 2004 - 3:17 PM CDT

Name: Deep Blade
Home Page: http://deepblade.net

Misjudged the threat

You're funny. Bush's lie (not under oath, remember?) before the 911 Commission -- he said he had not been informed that terrorists were in this country prior to the attacks -- really inspires confidence.

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Sunday, 19 September 2004 - 7:18 PM CDT

Name: Toby Petzold

Why on Earth would Bush say that? There have obviously been terrorists here for years. I think Clinton sent the cops around to see what they were up to. And thank goodness, too! That put a stop to everything.

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Sunday, 19 September 2004 - 10:14 PM CDT

Name: Deep Blade
Home Page: http://deepblade.net

I can only go by what's been printed. At least Clinton did take the warnings seriously.

The 9/11 Commission Report, p. 260:

"The President told us the August 6 report was historical in nature. President Bush said the article told him that al Qaeda was dangerous, which he said he had known since he had become President. The President said Bin Ladin had long been talking about his desire to attack America. He recalled some operational data on the FBI, and remembered thinking it was heartening that 70 investigations were under way. As best he could recollect, Rice had mentioned that the Yemenis? surveillance of a federal building in New York had been looked into in May and June, but there was no actionable intelligence.

"He did not recall discussing the August 6 report with the Attorney General or whether Rice had done so. He said that if his advisers had told him there was a cell in the United States, they would have moved to take care of it. That never happened,."36

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