Kerry: Terrorists Just Nuisance
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Kerry: Terrorists Just Nuisance
| Sun, 10-10-2004 - 5:46pm |
We now know why Kerry has such a difficult time formulating a policy regarding terrorism. For him. . .what's the big deal?. . .they're just a nuisance! In a New York Times interview published today, Kerry said: ''We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance.'' I'd like to see him explain to 3,000 9/11 families that terrorists are "just a nuisance". . .I'd like to see him explain to 350 Beslan Russian families that terrorists are "just a nuisance". . .I'd like to see him explain to the Israeli families attacked by suicide bombers that terrorists are "just a nuisance". Kerry is living in LaLa land: a universe where the French and Russians didn't really sell arms to Saddam, where UN officials didn't corrupt the food for oil program, where by sheer personal "charm" he is going to convince our allies to join him in "the wrong war, at the wrong place, in the wrong time". Right!

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I'd love to see this in context of everything he said. I really hope he isn't suggesting that the terrorists were ever only a nuisance. Whether we are actively fighting them, or merely keeping tabs on them and protecting our citizens as best as possible from them, their threat is and will always be more than just a nuisance.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/10/bush.kerry.terror/index.html
And this may or may not be a link to the original article... can't say for certain since I'm not registered and don't want to.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/magazine/10KERRY.html
~mark~
When I asked Kerry what it would take for Americans to feel safe again, he displayed a much less apocalyptic worldview. ''We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance,'' Kerry said. ''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.''
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/magazine/10KERRY.html?pagewanted=6&adxnnl=1&oref=login&adxnnlx=1097452955-Lhlr1LC3hvgJnYGpei6Qlw
Once again, we are all here because one president in my lifetime had the courage to say we will *not* attack, when everyone else said to attack. It's not always the right thing to do. Knowing when and when not to is such a vital thing, and this president, mr chicken, has no clue.
By the way did you know they found discs in Iraq on specific schools in America and their security codes? Sounds like a threat to me.
It's extremist and folly. It is not us against the world. We are part of the world, not it's rulers.
As for the discs... those were not threats from Saddam Hussein, they were of terrorists who have since entered the country. There is no connection to Hussein... none.
Edited 10/11/2004 7:59 am ET ET by rayeellen
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