Kerry Wrote The Book On Fighting Terrorism

[DrFunkenstein]

No, really. I don't mean it as an expression. He really wrote the book.

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One review:

With the end of the Cold War and the growing globalization of the world marketplace there has been a marked increase in the last decade of terrorist activities, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, being just two of the more conspicuous examples.

In his book "The New War", Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts lays out a complete picture of the international crime syndicates which now threaten America's security and way of life. Senator Kerry lays out a compelling argument for America to take steps to protect our infrastructure from outside threats.

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Coming soon:

"A Call to Service: My Vision for a Better America"

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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0670032603/qid=1060101723/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_5/103-0377255-4831836?v=glance&s=books

"Tour of Duty : John Kerry and the Vietnam War"

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060565233/qid=1060102110/sr=1-18/ref=sr_1_18/103-0377255-4831836?v=glance&s=books

[blm]

1. Imagine the terror on the RNC's faces if they had to face a ticket of

Kerry/Hart
Kerry/Clark
Kerry/Graham

Goodbye national security issue. Hello Crawford. Kerry knows how to link foreign policy to illegal profiteering, too.

[ProfessorPlum]

2. Literally!

:)

[XanaDUer]

3. The more I hear about Kerry

The more impressed I am, and I am already pretty impressed!

[blm]

19. It looks like Kerry is gearing up

to use BCCI and IranContra to hammer Bush in the campaign. He brought it up in NH on Cspan. He mentioned Noriega and CIA drugrunning, too.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. Was Iraq part of the "Web of Crime?"

Having not read the book, I wouldn't know.

[blm]

7. actually...go check out Iraqgate.

Banco Nazionale figures into the equation.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

16. A streeeeeetchhhhh, to say the least.

15 years have drifted by.

C'mon, you've got better than that in ya.

[blm]

17. Shows what YOU don't know...

This all links up to everything that is happening today. 9-11 and Iraq.

Ignore it for your own political agenda, just like Bush ignored the Hart-Rudman report. See how it helps the country.

[chimpymustgo]

5. Kerry is a man of charisma, character and substance.

He's a wonderful candidate.

[poskonig]

6. The Kerry campaign should be using this.

A lot of Democrats are shitting in their pants about being labelled weak on defense.

That is, of course, if Kerry wants the job.

[blm]

8. He will, poskonig...

he has his own plan to deal with Bush. Its factors include building an airtight case against him using the intel from his team that includes Rand Beers, Gen. William Perry and Gary Hart.

Rove will try to knock Kerry out in the primaries because no one else has the juice to make the case.

[poskonig]

9. Kerry needs a campaign, not a dissertation.

Kerry needs to get a message out ASAP. His campaign staff is internally divided and somewhat obsessed about Dean, wondering if they should attack him now or attack him later. I believe they should push the experienced, professional veteran theme. Fighting with Dean forces Kerry to state how he was duped by Bush, and that is clearly working against this theme. Dean has been attacked by everyone and returns fire while staying on message; Team Kerry has been derailed for the moment.

[blm]

10. So the media would have you think.

Kerry has been pacing himself for a fall announcement and a major shift in gear. Why judge him by what you are picking up in the media and here? He has kept in the forefront while criticizing Bush with a statesmanlike demeanor. He is truly the exact opposite of Bush and the American people will notice it when they are more apt to focus on the election.

[Nicholas_J]

11. I KNOW

What will be involved in the fal announcement and the campaign is going to be VERY HARD,HITTING, and the RECORD of the candidates who have been criticising Kerry are going to be opened wide for the public to make comparisons between Kerry, and other candidates. He is going to come out in September, and the decision has been made to attack certain other candidates for the nomination hard, with back up from liberal politicians from their own states. There was a schism between those on Kerry's campaign who did not want to run negative, attack campainging and those who did, and those who want to have a full scale war have won. Everything from record on supporting agri-business over small farms to foreign policy and being anti-war equating with being willing to support brutal regimes like Saddam Hussseins and Ariel Sharon's will be fair game.

Gloves are coming off, and blood is going to flow.

[DrFunkenstein]

12. Really?

That would be a terrible shame, and a complete disregard for Kerry's strengths. Kerry is best at taking on enormous challenges, not clinging to tiny leads.

From the New Yorker profile, Joe Klein talks about the Kerry-Weld brawl in 1996:

The last four debates were fabulous political theatre-two very smart men having at each other. "John's at his best under pressure, when he's being seriously challenged," Paul Nace, an old Navy friend, says. "He gets really cool, very calm. He really is a warrior-he just loves it. I took one look at him as he was walking into Faneuil Hall for one of the last debates and I thought, Bill Weld has no idea what's about to hit him."

Weld-who calls the debates a "bloody draw"-says that Kerry successfully attached him to the national Republican Party. (Weld had said some embarrassingly positive things about Newt Gingrich two years earlier.) "The turning point came when he asked me if I'd vote to keep Jesse Helms as the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. That was a killer."

I asked Weld how he responded. "I ducked it, of course," he said, with a smile. "I mean, I hated Jesse Helms. But what could I do?"

Kerry won the election by eight percentage points. "John has always been underestimated politically," Marttila says. "But that race had the quality and intensity of a Presidential campaign, and he won. I don't see how they can underestimate him anymore, but they probably will."

http://www.johnkerry.com/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=6197&JServSessionIdr009=2ffhmw22ro.app8b&security=1&news_iv_ctrl=-1

[blm]

15. I don't think he'll have to go that far.

He can be tough without losing his dignity.

[MissMarple]

13. Kerry's great! And we're lucky to have more than one good prospect.

I just hope they don't annihilate each on the way to the nomination. I hope they speak plainly, truthfully, and openly. I hope we all can actually BE "all for one, and one for all" at the end instead of a bunch of snippy, twitty, backbiting political junkies.

I hope those seeking the nomination can find a common thread between them that is for something, not just against George, something that can pull average Americans together, something we all agree on, ....like battling a mothership full ravaging aliens. Bill Pullman aside, we do need more common sense common threads to pull us together and start moving in the same direction. I hope this nomination process ends with a clarification of goals and practical solutions to our social and political ills. And I hope that they all work actively for a successful Democratic president when we have a nominee.

[blm]

14. I have infinite faith in all of us, actually.

I truly believe we all will work for the nominee. Even the most hardbitten warriors here. ;)))))

[AfricanDonkey]

18. I just bought the book :)