Bush's "Katrina Foreign Policy"
This [Bush] administration has given us a Katrina foreign policy—mistake upon mistake upon mistake. Unwilling to give our troops the armor that they need. Unwilling to have enough troops in place. Unwilling to give them the Humvees that they deserve to protect them. Unwilling to have a coalition that is adequate to be able to defend our interests. Our own intelligence agency has told us they’re creating more terrorists, not less. They’re making us less safe, not more. I think Americans are sick and tired of this game. These Republicans are afraid to stand up and debate a real veteran on this topic, and they’re afraid to debate, you know, they want to debate straw men, because they’re afraid to debate real men.
–John Kerry, 31 October 2006[excerpt from Kerry's statement via "Kerry Strikes Back", Shakespeare's Sister, 31 October 2006.]
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on Wednesday, 1 November 2006 at 07.02
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Good on ya John Kerry.
on Thursday, 2 November 2006 at 01.55
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Great fighting response by Kerry, that. It's the kind of thing I ached for him to do throughout 2004.
The ironies in this absurd episode abound: Kerry was out campaigning for Democrats — Iraq and Afghanistan war vets among them — when he flubbed his sarcastic joke.
Every Democrat, liberal, progressive, independent and unaffiliated Bush foe should rally around Kerry now. That's exactly what the Republicans do, and in that regard they know what they're doing.