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kerrygoddess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 02:00 PM
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Kerry OP/ED: Post-9/11 Policy Hasn’t Made World Safer
Edited on Sat Sep-09-06 02:45 PM by kerrygoddess
John Kerry OP/ED: Post-9/11 Policy Hasn’t Made World Safer: Rather than occupying Iraq, we Must Destroy al-Qaeda
September 9th, 2006 @ 10:33 am

In advance of his speech this morning at Boston’s Faneuil Hall, the Boston Herald featured an OP/ED from John Kerry today about the Bush administrations “Post-9/11 policy.”



The complete and utter failure of the Bush administration both in Iraq and Afghanistan, grows clearer every day as the Senate Intel Committee’s report becomes public that there was no link between Iraq and 9/11 and the news that Rumsfeld muzzled the “Iraq post-war plan.”

Months before the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld forbade military strategists from developing plans for securing a post-war Iraq, the retiring commander of the Army Transportation Corps said Thursday.

In fact, said Brig. Gen. Mark Scheid, Rumsfeld said “he would fire the next person” who talked about the need for a post-war plan.


John Kerry nailed it all today in his speech on national security, and in this OP/ED in the Boston Herald:

Post-9/11 policy hasn’t made world safer: Rather than occupying Iraq, we must destroy al-Qaeda
By John Kerry
Saturday, September 9, 2006

Five years after Sept. 11, where are we? Bogged down in Baghdad, beleaguered around the world and bitterly divided at home.

Democrats have a unique responsibility not just to oppose what has failed but to propose a new course that can defeat jihadist terrorism once and for all.

There are many things we can and must do better, but there are five steps to start: Redeploy from Iraq, recommit to Afghanistan, reduce our dependence on foreign oil, reform our homeland defense and restore America’s moral leadership in the world. These are five bold steps Democrats would take to strengthen our national security, and that the Republicans who have set the agenda resist to our national peril. Read the rest of this entry » http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=4133#more-4133


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infogirl Donating Member (184 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 02:05 PM
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1. Hey Kerrygoddess!
Kerry is doing well...and he is the only one who has followed the Bush's nasty trail. Noreen Gosch is all over the TV...and looks like he would like to tell all!

Computer voting is still wrecking elections and nothing much has changed! No matter how hard we work on it...can't get around bush et.el
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kerrygoddess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 03:06 PM
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4. Kerry's on a roll!
Yes he is...
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 02:07 PM
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2. I want Bush out and Kerry in. Now. Back up the moving vans and
let's get this done.

Word for word, who in this entire world would prefer a nitwit like Bush over John Kerry?

Nobody at my house.
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kerrygoddess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 03:12 PM
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5. Send him packing!
Bush is not my president!
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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 02:26 PM
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3. Excellent: start here
Fire. Rumsfeld. Now. (watch as Repubs distance themselves from the failures they caused/supported)

Continue here
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