By Matt Hurley for the TIB Network:
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"Dick Cheney's desperate misleading attacks now have him criticizing George Bush's own words, who called for America to be "sensitive about expressing our power and influence." Dick Cheney doesn't understand is that arrogance isn't a virtue, especially when our country is in danger. Alienating allies makes it harder to hunt terrorists and bring them justice. If Dick Cheney learned this lesson instead of spending his time distorting John Kerry's words, this country would be a safer place,"Well, Phil, context is one of those things that your team doesn't like to use when criticizing the Bush adminsitration. Turnabout is fair play every now and then, don't you think?
-- Kerry/Edwards spokesman, Phil Singer
Can't you guys just admit that your guy said something stupid?
The only thing missing from this attack is HALLIBURTON! Plenty of other lies/distortions to pick apart though:
United States Carries The Burden In Iraq. Nearly 90 percent of the coalition troops serving in Iraq are American and nearly 90 percent of the soldiers killed in Iraq are American. (Brookings Institution, "Iraq Index," 8/11/04)Still not the quagmire of Vietnam. Are you sure you guys want to go down THAT road?
Poll Shows Global Attitude Of The United States At An All Time Low. "The nonpartisan Pew Research Center, which conducted the survey, said the image of the United States in the world has never polled lower. 'This poll says to me the discontent with America is a long-term problem that U.S. leaders have to confront,' said poll director Andrew Kohut. 'We've never seen ratings as low as this for America.' The Pew poll is three years old, and Kohut has been conducting similar surveys in Europe for two decades." (Washington Post, 3/17/04)America will aways be hated because of our power and position in the world. Any student who takes an intro to International Studies class will tell you that.
Say, here's a thought, maybe if Michael Moore would stop going abroad and calling Americans stupid, things might change a bit. Just a thought.
Karl Rove Said Bush Policy Has Damaged U.S. Stature In The World. "The White House is so gloomy about the repercussions that senior adviser Karl Rove suggested this week that the consequences of the graphic photographs documenting the U.S. abuse of Iraqi detainees are so enormous that it will take decades for the United States to recover, according to a Bush adviser." (Washington Post, 5/7/04)The travesty that occured at Abu Ghraib was NOT the result of Bush administration policy. That is a complete fabrication and further proof of the "clown-like nature" of the Kerry/Edwards campaign that they continue to lie to the American people.
Donald Rumsfeld: Rumsfeld suggested that the U.S. is winning some battles in the war on terror but may be losing the larger battle against extremism that is terrorism's source. "It's quite clear to me that we do not have a coherent approach to this," Rumsfeld said at an international security conference. (WP, 6/6/04)I thought you guys said that the Bush administration doesn't tell the truth. Why do you believe any of this stuff? Just asking.
The reality is that we are winning the War on Terror. Is it over? No. But progress is being made.
I'll bet that if someone were enterprising enough to go back and check that article out, there is some context missing...
Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.): "We weren't prepared for an occupation. We made a tremendous amount of mistakes. We did essentially go after this in a unilateral way." (CNN, "Inside Politics," 7/1/04)Rumsfeld got his way on this one. I always thought it made more sense to use more Iraqis from the beginning. Powell's approach would have been the correct call. On the other hand, name me a war wherein mistakes aren't made? It is the nature of war...
Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.): In a speech delivered at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, the United States risks "catastrophic terrorism" unless it repairs international alliances, expands trade and encourages global economic development. (AP, 5/23/04; Reuters, 5/21/04)I'm sure there is some context missing, but on the whole the Senator is correct; then again, that's what the State Department is for...
9-11 Commission Urged Bush Administration To "Engage Other Nations." "The United States should engage other nations in developing a comprehensive coalition strategy against Islamist terrorism. There are several multilateral institutions in which such issues should be addressed. But the most important policies should be discussed and coordinated in a flexible contact group of leading coalition governments. This is a good place, for example, to develop joint strategies for targeting terrorist travel, or for hammering out a common strategy for the places where terrorists may be finding sanctuary." (9-11 Commission Report, p. 379)The problem with this is that the Bush administration secured a coalition to fight the War on Terror.
9-11 Commission At Odds With Bush Approach to War on Terror. The 9-11 Commission wrote that beating terrorism "demands the use of all elements of national power: diplomacy, intelligence, covert action, law enforcement, economic policy, foreign aid, public diplomacy, and homeland defense. If we favor one tool while neglecting the others, we leave ourselves vulnerable and weaken our national effort." (9/11 Commission Report, p. 363-4)Kerry/Edwards forgets how the administration addressed the criticism on the North Korea issue: certain situations require different solutions. The President has used all the tools available in the War on Terror: Diplomacy (North Korea, Libya), intelligence (Iran), covert action (Afghanistan, Iraq), law enforcement (ever hear of the FBI?), economic policy (Sudan, Libya), foreign aid (Libya, Sudan), public diplomacy (redundant - see diplomacy), and homeland defense (ever hear of TSA? Homeland Security? etc.).
Clowns...
