John Kerry: Switch the Fight to Afghanistan

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John Kerry: Switch the Fight to Afghanistan
September 9th, 2006 @ 12:14 pm

John Kerry ripped into the Bush administration with his speech on national security today. He’s been on a roll for the past few days since Congress has been back in session and Bush has been on the campaign trail trying to win back support for his national security failures and his war in Iraq, based on lies, with a series of redundant speeches.



The American public is tired of the fear-mongering. We need a real solid plan for national security and real leadership. John Kerry’s national secuity plan laid out in today’s speech at Boston’s Faneuil Hall, puts BushCo to shame.

Kerry penned two OP/ED’s today in conjunction with his speech, one from the Boston Herald that I posted earlier, and this OP/ED in the Union Leader:

John Kerry: Switch the fight to Afghanistan
By SEN. JOHN KERRY

Donald Rumsfeld — who should have been fired as secretary of defense long ago — gave an ugly speech in which he spoke of “moral confusion.”

There certainly is a lot of moral confusion around these days. It is immoral for old men to send young Americans to fight and die for a strategy that has not weakened terrorism but worsened it. It is immoral to treat 9/11 as a political pawn — and to continue to excuse the invasion of Iraq by exploiting the 3,000 mothers and fathers, sons and daughters who were lost that day. They were attacked and killed not by Saddam Hussein but by Osama bin Laden.

President Bush has a strategy to try to win an election. We need leadership that has a strategy to win the War on Terror.

Iraq has made America less safe. The terrorists are not on the run. Terrorist acts tripled between 2004 and 2005. Al-Qa-da has spawned a decentralized network operating in 65 countries, most of them joining since 9/11. Only Dick Cheney could call this a success.

The situation in Afghanistan deteriorates steadily. The Taliban now controls entire portions of southern Afghanistan, and across the border Pakistan is one coup away from becoming a radical jihadist state with nuclear weapons. Only George Bush could declare this “mission accomplished.” Read the rest of this entry »http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=4135#more-4135

[ProSense]

1. Perfect!

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2. I'm surprised ther Pentagon is allowing bad news to make it out of Afgan

roadside bombs are being used 70% more then this time last year!!