Kerry's Undeclared war

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Kerry's Undeclared war
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Tue, 10-12-2004 - 12:51am
Here's the orginial link: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/magazine/10KERRY.html?pagewanted=all&position=

Here also is a video clip and it shows Kerry leaving the steps at the capitol: http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1535000/video/_1537652_washington_watson05_vi.ram

As New York and Washington were under attack on Sept. 11, 2001, a film crew happened to come upon John Kerry leaving the Capitol. The brief moment of footage, included in a BBC documentary called ''Clear the Skies,'' tells us something, perhaps, about Kerry in a crisis. The camera captures Congressional aides and visitors, clearly distraught and holding onto one another, streaming down the back steps of the Capitol building in near panic, following the bellowed instructions of anxious police. Off to one side of the screen, there is Kerry, alone, his long legs carrying him calmly down the steps, his neck craning toward the sky, as if he were watching a gathering rainstorm. His face and demeanor appear unworried. Kerry could be a man lost in his thoughts who just happens to have wandered onto the set of a disaster film.

''I remember looking up at the sky as I walked down the steps,'' Kerry told me recently, when I asked him about the film clip. He said that he and other members of the Senate's Democratic leadership had just watched on television as the second plane hit the World Trade Center, and shortly after that they heard the sonic boom of an explosion and saw, through a large window, the black smoke rise from the Pentagon. ''We'd had some warning that there was some airplane in the sky. And I remember seeing a great big plane -- I think it was a 747 or something -- up there, but it wasn't moving in a way that, you know, I was particularly concerned. I remember feeling a rage, a huge anger, and I remember turning to somebody and saying, 'This is war.' I said, 'This is an act of war.'''

After leaving the Capitol on that terrible day, Kerry walked across the street to his office in the Russell Senate building, where he made sure that his staff had been evacuated and was safe. Reluctant to leave Capitol Hill, he watched TV coverage in his office and saw the second tower fall. He called his older daughter, Alexandra, who was living in New York, and his wife, Teresa, who was in Washington. Those who saw Kerry that morning recall mainly that he was furious, an emotion, those close to him say, that comes easily to him in times of trial. He thought it was a mistake to shut down the Capitol, to show terrorists that they had the power to send the United States government into hiding.

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Tue, 10-12-2004 - 3:09pm

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Edited 10/12/2004 3:26 pm ET ET by cl-wrhen

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Tue, 10-12-2004 - 3:19pm

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Wed, 10-13-2004 - 1:25am

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Wed, 10-13-2004 - 1:12pm
My dad was on Saipan, I know what you are talking about.

Although I am against war (as an ideal to be strived for), I favored attacking Afghanistan because those responsible for 9/11 were based there. I'm not questioning the logic of fighting Japan in WWII or terrorists in Afghanistan today.

Iraq is not Afghanistan, the circumstances were different, and to pretend they weren't is just plain irresponsible.


Edited 10/13/2004 6:59 pm ET ET by splum2004

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Wed, 10-13-2004 - 2:47pm
Agreed. I was all for going to Afghanistan myself since we knew they were the one's who attacked us on 9/11. The Iraqi people didn't and now we know that there were no WMD's.
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Thu, 10-14-2004 - 8:25am
Can you say "Sarin shell"?

Just keep believing everything you read in the Associated Press -- brings in more votes for Bush all the time.


Edited 10/14/2004 8:27 am ET ET by frvt

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Thu, 10-14-2004 - 12:09pm
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Can you say "Sarin shell"?

Just keep believing everything you read in the Associated Press -- brings in more votes for Bush all the time.

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No, I think I'll believe the words of a 10 member, BI-PARTISAN commission of EXPERTS over a venomous Bush lover who can do nothing but use the same old lame attacks on John Kerry.


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Thu, 10-14-2004 - 7:49pm
"No, I think I'll believe the words of a 10 member, BI-PARTISAN commission of EXPERTS over a venomous Bush lover who can do nothing but use the same old lame attacks on John Kerry."

Clearly the venomous one on this board at the present time is you. There are few posts that you don't use condescending remarks towards concervatives. Are you really that threatened by people that can view something differently than you?

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Fri, 10-15-2004 - 10:24am
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Clearly the venomous one on this board at the present time is you. There are few posts that you don't use condescending remarks towards concervatives. Are you really that threatened by people that can view something differently than you?

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Such as? You wanna debate the debating manner? What VENOMOUS language do i use to describe supporters of Bush? What language do I use to even describe Bush that is venemous.

You're actually going to defend the nature of the this dude's posts?

As for being 'Threatened', not a chance. I don't attack conservatives for being conservatives, I will attack posters with the facts (as I see them) when they post along the lines of the things the Swift vets say.

You see me quoting Soros? You do not.

Politically, I'm probably more of a conservative than you are. I'm just very liberal on social issues. I have voted Republican in every Presidential election since 1984 with the exception of 1996, I just couldn't like Bob Dole.

So, does that mean you ALSO DISAGREE with the 10 member Bi-Partisan (yeah, that's a rap on conservative ain't it!) as well?

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