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Originally posted by sgtclub
Even if we say that Kerry's pre 9/11 record is irrelevent, and I don't think it is, what about his post 9/11 record?
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OK.
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I know you like to justify it all sorts of ways, but he voted against $87 million in funding after saying that anyone who did that was not fit to be president.
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And he voted for a different measure to fund the $87 billion (b) that Bush opposed. At least Kerry's method of funding the war was fiscally responsible.
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He's said Iraq is the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time, while troops are in harm's way.
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He was right. Living in a democracy, as we do, you're allowed to say that our leaders have screwed up, even if our troops are being shot at. I recall Republicans criticizing Clinton while our troops were in harm's way in the former Yugoslavia.
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He's ridiculed the leadership of Iraq while Allawi was a guest of the US.
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If pointing out the truth constitutes ridicule, then you've got to blame the person who put Allawi in the situation. Bush has Allawi come to this country to campaign for him, reading a speech written by his campaign, and Kerry's to blame for pointing this out? You think no one in Iraq was going to see the Allawi puppet show on Al Jazeera if Kerry didn't point it out?
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He's belittled our allies who have joined the coalition.
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No, he said the problem was that there weren't more of them. They probably agree.
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He's said that our foreign policy going forward would be governed by some amorphous "global test," which, giving him the benefit of the doubt, does not mean a veto by our allies, but I'm not sure what that means.
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If you read what he said, it's pretty simple. Once you act unilaterally, you've got to be able to justify what you've done to your own countrymen and other countries.
It's not confusing. Bush is twisting his words intentionally, because after four years, that's what he's got left to run on. That and poor Mary Cheney.
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He's made other statements suggesting that this "war" should be fought, more like the war on drugs, as a matter of global law enforcement.
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He's said the war on terror involves law enforcement, which it does. Do you ever find yourself wondering why Attorney General Ashcroft, the nation's top law enforcement officer, keeps popping up in the war on terror? It's not because he's a member of the Reserves. This, again, is another straw man.
