Kerry Will Abandon War on Terrorism

[joeunderdog]

The Democratic Party's presidential front-runner, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), has pledged that if elected he will abandon the president's war on terror, begin a dialogue with terrorist regimes and apologize for three-and-one-half years of mistakes by the Bush administration.

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Heritage presidential historian Lee Edwards called it "not a foreign-policy analysis but a polemical speech, filled with inflammatory rhetoric that is disturbing and beyond the pale. What this suggests is that Mr. Kerry wants to take us back to President Clinton and his U.N.-led multilateral policies."

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Perhaps frustrated that his radical departure from the war on terror was not getting much attention in the trenches of Democratic Party politics, Kerry ordered his campaign to mobilize grass-roots supporters to spread the word. In one e-mail message, obtained by Insight and confirmed as authentic by the Kerry camp, the senator's advisers enlisted overseas Democrats to launch a letter-writing and op-ed campaign denouncing the Bush foreign-policy record.

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The e-mail succeeded beyond the wildest dream of Kerry's handlers - at least, so they tell Insight. It was immediately picked up by the Mehr news agency in Tehran, and appeared the next day on the front page of a leading hard-line daily there.

"I have no idea how they got hold of that letter, which was prepared for Democrats Abroad," Kerry's top foreign-policy aide, Rand Beers, tells Insight. "I scratched my head when I saw that. The only way they could have gotten it was if someone in Iran was with Democrats Abroad."

more slander here...
http://www.insightmag.com/news/2004/03/16/Politics/Kerry.Will.Abandon.War.On.Terrorism-621288.shtml

[Beetwasher]

1. Uhhh...This is not breaking news AND it's from a questionable source

Why would you post this crap?

[UpInArms]

2. oh goodie! The Moonie Mag raises it ugly head

and denounces a Democratic candidate!

This is news?

What I want to know is how in the hell do you fight a war on a "noun" or a "verb"?

[frylock]

7. like david cross said..

it's like fighting a war on jealousy.

[DemNoir]

3. Why does LBN have to be defiled every single day

Please stop posting garbage. How could anyone think this is worthy of any mention at all?

[bemildred]

4. Yup, I reckon that Kerry fellow is weak on terrorism, eh?

:puke::puke::puke::puke:

[jpak]

5. and he "looks French" too...

Sadly, we're going to see much more of this bullshit in the run-up to the election.

I hope Kerry calls the Chimp a liar - to his face - in the debates...

[Sinistrous]

6. Nice of you lead with a quote from a Heritage Foundation flack.

Amazing that no other journalist got it "right". (double entende, intended)

"Kerry's remarks were widely praised by journalists. The Associated Press headlined its report on his speech, "Kerry Vows to Repair Foreign Relations." The Knight Ridder news service noted that the new focus on foreign policy "plays to Kerry's strength." None of the major U.S. dailies found Kerry's unusually strident language at all inappropriate. "Kerry Vows to Change U.S. Foreign Policy; Senator Describes Steps He Would Take as President," the Washington Post headlined ponderously."

I am SO reassured to see there is no right-wing bias in this piece.

[bigendian]

8. Kerry told the truth.

How convenient that a speech given in December aligns him with the Iranian clerics and their actions four months later. This is "hand in glove" spin tailor made by the RNC.

Welcome to the political battleground of 2004; the Internet.

The Heritage Foundation is a collection of intellectual wannabe administration political appointees.

[Moderator]

9. Locking.

Please refrain from posting articles from ridiculously conservative sources in the Latest Breaking News Forum.

Feel free to repost this as an "information only" article in the GD-2004 Forum.

Thanks!

DU Moderator