Kerry Attacks Bush on Terror Alert System
Senator John Kerry is trying to convince himself and Americans that President Bush used the terror alert system for political purposes in 2004.
Kerry said in an interview with the Herald: “We had red alerts and orange alerts and all these alerts. We haven’t had an alert since the election.”
Republicans immediately attacked the statement, saying Kerry has a misguided viewpoint on the war in Iraq.
“Sen. Kerry’s suggestion that the terror alert system is a political tool provides a unique insight into the fundamental misunderstanding he and Barack Obama have about the threat America faces,” Republican National Committee spokeswoman Blair Latoff said. ‘It is extremely disappointing that there are those who still believe that protecting Americans is a partisan issue.”
Kerry made the comments while discussing the difference between the political climate now and during the 2004 election, when he challenged President Bush.
“The economy I had in ’04 was a pretty good economy, and today it’s obviously down in the dumps, and we were one year into the war in Iraq and I was saying it was wrong, and we had red alerts and orange alerts and all these alerts. We haven’t had an alert since the election,” Kerry said.
“And we’re now six years into the war and everyone sees the handwriting on the wall. So we have a very different mood today. For those who say timing is everything in politics, it is.”
I won’t waste time trying to convince people unwilling to be convinced that Kerry’s suggestion is just plain stupid. However, Senator Kerry should ask himself why it is that increased terror alerts would have helped President Bush instead of himself. Could it be that Americans know that Senator Kerry (or any democratic president for that matter) would be less effective, if not ineffective in executing the War on Terror?
4 comments July 15th, 2008
