Bush Adminsitration Stealing Another Kerry Idea

[erpowers]

During the 2004 election one of John Kerry's major ideas in dealing with the problems of the military was to increase the number of special forces soldiers in the military. This morning the Washington Post is reporting that the number of special forces military units are planned to increase over the next decade. It seems to me that Bush, since he was elected has been stealing many of John Kerry's ideas. And during the 2004 election Tucker Carlson said the Democrats did not have any new ideas. Well I guess he cannot tell that to the Bush Administration. They have been using many of the new ideas of the Democratic Party.

[eagler]

1. Please make a list of these ideas and your sources so

they can be used against the bushies.

[TayTay]

7. Well there is this

Presidential debate 9/30/04 http://www.debates.org/pages/trans2004a.html

Kerry: Ask the people in the armed forces today. We've got Guards and Reserves who are doing double duties. We've got a backdoor draft taking place in America today: people with stop-loss programs where they're told you can't get out of the military; nine out of our 10 active duty divisions committed to Iraq one way or the other, either going, coming or preparing.

So this is the way the president has overextended the United States.

That's why, in my plan, I add two active duty divisions to the United States Army, not for Iraq, but for our general demands across the globe. I also intend to double the number of special forces so that we can do the job we need to do with respect fighting the terrorists around the world. And if we do that, then we have the ability to be able to respond more rapidly.

and this:


12/8/05 Council on Foreign Relations speech

Now, of course, there will be times, like in Afghanistan, when direct military engagement will be necessary. And that requires reshaping our military for those missions ahead: a larger infantry and more special forces; more personnel trained and equipped to perform post-conflict reconstruction missions; a Guard and a Reserve force that meets the nation’s needs overseas and at home. But let me tell you, because this is a long-range war, we have to do now a better job, even, of destroying terrorist cells and preventing terrorist attacks here at home.

And this:

And at the Georgetown speech on 10/26/05

Finally, and without delay, we must fundamentally alter the deployment of American troops. While Special Operations must continue to pursue specific intelligence leads, the vast majority of our own troops should be in rear guard, garrisoned status for security backup. We do not need to send young Americans on search and destroy missions that invite alienation and deepen the risks they face. Iraqis should police Iraqis. Iraqis should search Iraqi homes. Iraqis should stand up for Iraq.

[blm]

2. The difference is Kerry wanted more special forces to deal with spot

problems that occur, because he doesn't believe in sustained airstrikes that cause so many civilian deaths. He never has and never will.

He thinks if the cause is strong enough then we should expect to send in the best trained forces to handle it in a decisive way.

[baby_mouse]

3. Time we stole some of their ideas.

"Bush Adminsitration Stealing Another Kerry Idea"

should be:

"Kerry Philosophy discovered by Bush Administration"

Sounds a bit less defensive and casts Bush as dim rather than malicious. (He *is* malicious but nobody's going to stop voting for him for that reason...)

[wisteria]

4. I like that a lot. it give credit where credit is due and does it's

job on Bush.

[baby_mouse]

5. We need more faith in ourselves. nt.

They aren't the only ones who can manipulate language to their advantage.

[wisteria]

6. Kerry is probably just glad things are happening, but

it really pisses me off that Kerry doesn't get the credit he deserves.