Re: Chaney Speech, I had to laugh.......at John F Kerry
Smorley
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The crankiest neighbor on the worst street in Our Town, America-- VP Cheney (spelling counts!) once again showed his skills as a missleader. The thing that has shown up on all of the so very thoughtful news channels has to do with the part in Cheney's speech where he says Kerry wouldn't call it a war on terror. Salon.com did a nice service pointing out where the quote comes from. The folks at the top are criminals, plain and simple. It is below and comes from 3/18
So where did this I-won't-call-it-a-war-on-terror quote come from? On March 5, Kerry gave a foreign policy-oriented interview to the New York Times aboard an airplane. Extended portions of the interview were printed in the paper, as a sidebar to a news story. At one point Kerry was addressing the big picture regarding "the war on terror," a phrase he used repeatedly during the interview. He said, "The combination of economic, the economic bleakness, the devastation, within countries that are potentially explosive, where you have very large young populations of uneducated people ripe for the pickings of radicalism, is a much bigger challenge than the world as yet has been willing to grapple with." Kerry concluded, "The final victory in the war on terror depends on a victory in the war of ideas, much more than the war on the battlefield. And the war -- not the war, I don't want to use that terminology. The engagement of economies, the economic transformation, the transformation to modernity of a whole bunch of countries that have been avoiding the future. And that future's coming at us like it or not, in the context of terror, and in the context of failed states, and dysfunctional economies, and all that goes with that."There's not a college freshman in America who would read that passage and suggest Kerry is reluctant to call the struggle against terrorism a "war." That's simply not what he said. His point was obvious -- the war on terror, or "the war on the battlefield," is intricately connected with the war of ideas (economics, modernity, religious fanaticism).Kerry's phrase about not wanting to "use that [war] terminology" had nothing to do with Sept. 11, al-Qaida, Madrid or Baghdad. It was Kerry's clarification to reporters of the distinction between the war on the battlefield and the battle over ideas. But the Bush campaign is trying to transform the utterance into a false ideological dividing line.Perhaps not surprisingly, the cut-and-paste ruse is being promoted by Bush's tools in the conservative media. Writing for the Wall Street Journal opinion Web site last week, James Taranto cited Bush's use of the "terminology" quote and insisted, "Bush's criticisms of Kerry are based on hard facts."Better check again.
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The crankiest neighbor on the worst street in Our Town, America-- VP Cheney (spelling counts!) once again showed his skills as a missleader. The thing that has shown up on all of the so very thoughtful news channels has to do with the part in Cheney's speech where he says Kerry wouldn't call it a war on terror. Salon.com did a nice service pointing out where the quote comes from. The folks at the top are criminals, plain and simple. It is below and comes from 3/18
So where did this I-won't-call-it-a-war-on-terror quote come from? On March 5, Kerry gave a foreign policy-oriented interview to the New York Times aboard an airplane. Extended portions of the interview were printed in the paper, as a sidebar to a news story. At one point Kerry was addressing the big picture regarding "the war on terror," a phrase he used repeatedly during the interview. He said, "The combination of economic, the economic bleakness, the devastation, within countries that are potentially explosive, where you have very large young populations of uneducated people ripe for the pickings of radicalism, is a much bigger challenge than the world as yet has been willing to grapple with." Kerry concluded, "The final victory in the war on terror depends on a victory in the war of ideas, much more than the war on the battlefield. And the war -- not the war, I don't want to use that terminology. The engagement of economies, the economic transformation, the transformation to modernity of a whole bunch of countries that have been avoiding the future. And that future's coming at us like it or not, in the context of terror, and in the context of failed states, and dysfunctional economies, and all that goes with that."There's not a college freshman in America who would read that passage and suggest Kerry is reluctant to call the struggle against terrorism a "war." That's simply not what he said. His point was obvious -- the war on terror, or "the war on the battlefield," is intricately connected with the war of ideas (economics, modernity, religious fanaticism).Kerry's phrase about not wanting to "use that [war] terminology" had nothing to do with Sept. 11, al-Qaida, Madrid or Baghdad. It was Kerry's clarification to reporters of the distinction between the war on the battlefield and the battle over ideas. But the Bush campaign is trying to transform the utterance into a false ideological dividing line.Perhaps not surprisingly, the cut-and-paste ruse is being promoted by Bush's tools in the conservative media. Writing for the Wall Street Journal opinion Web site last week, James Taranto cited Bush's use of the "terminology" quote and insisted, "Bush's criticisms of Kerry are based on hard facts."Better check again.
