When was terrorism merely a nuisance to Americans?

[AURaptor 1,125]

The election is still 22 days away, but John Kerry may have just put another nail in his own coffin. The Poodle gave an interview to the New York Times Magazine, and in it he was asked "what it would take for Americans to feel safe again." sKerry's astonishing reply? ''We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance."

A nuisance? Get back to where we were? This is a stunning admission. Just when was terrorism merely a nuisance to Americans? Before 9/11? Evidently that's Kerry's perception. Kerry has publicly stated that he wants to return to the pre-911 Clinton policies whereby Islamic terrorism was treated like a law enforcement problem. He wants to go back to the time where America was repeatedly attacked over a 20-year period, yet we did virtually nothing to retaliate. After all, we treated the terrorists like they were a nuisance.

Will Kerry tell the families of the American sailors killed on the USS Cole that the Islamic murderers who killed them were just a mere nuisance? How about the families of the Marines killed in the Khobar towers in 1996? Kerry was in the Senate on that terrible day ... and we heard no call for firm action from him.

How about the Israeli families who lost children when Palestinian terrorists attacked Israeli schools? What a nuisance that was! Do you know how long it takes to clean up all that blood and stuff?

Well, as we found out on September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorists are not a nuisance. They are a threat to freedom and an evil menace that has to be crushed. But it's Bush who wants to destroy them, not Kerry. Once the Islamic terrorists have been reduced to a mere nuisance level, Kerry will be able to turn his attention to other matters, like raising taxes on the evil rich (apparently another nuisance) and expanding the reach of the Imperial Federal Government with trillions more in federal spending.

Wait! There's more! Listen to what else Kerry had to say:

"As a former law enforcement person, I know we're never going to end prostitution. We're never going to end illegal gambling. But we're going to reduce it, organized crime, to a level where it isn't on the rise. It isn't threatening people's lives every day, and fundamentally, it's something that you continue to fight, but it's not threatening the fabric of your life.''

Oh really? We're going to compare Islamic jihadists flying airplanes into buildings and slaughtering 3,000 innocent people with prostitutes or someone taking a bet on a football game? Unbelievable. He is comparing terrorism to a victimless crime that society tolerates. In other words, he's saying that we should just learn to live with the terrorism, as long as there's just not too much of it. Maybe we ought to establish terror districts in major cities. If we can just limit the killings to certain neighborhoods everything will be hunky dory.

The Bush camp is jumping on this big-time, and they should. The ads will start rolling soon on this one. The United States is engaged in a struggle against terrorism and the Democratic nominee for president of the United States is calling it a nuisance.

Like the TV ads are going to say...how can Kerry fight the war on terror when he doesn't even understand the threat?

[TexasTiger 12,972]

The election is still 22 days away, but John Kerry may have just put another nail in his own coffin.  The Poodle gave an interview to the New York Times Magazine, and in it he was asked "what it would take for Americans to feel safe again."  sKerry's astonishing reply? ''We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance."

A nuisance?  Get back to where we were?  This is a stunning admission.  Just when was terrorism merely a nuisance to Americans?  Before 9/11?  Evidently that's Kerry's perception.  Kerry has publicly stated that he wants to return to the pre-911 Clinton policies whereby Islamic terrorism was treated like a law enforcement problem.  He wants to go back to the time where America was repeatedly attacked over a 20-year period, yet we did virtually nothing to retaliate.  After all, we treated the terrorists like they were a nuisance.

Will Kerry tell the families of the American sailors killed on the USS Cole that the Islamic murderers who killed them were just a mere nuisance?  How about the families of the Marines killed in the Khobar towers in 1996?  Kerry was in the Senate on that terrible day ... and we heard no call for firm action from him.

How about the Israeli families who lost children when Palestinian terrorists attacked Israeli schools?  What a nuisance that was!  Do you know how long it takes to clean up all that blood and stuff?

Well, as we found out on September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorists are not a nuisance.  They are a threat to freedom and an evil menace that has to be crushed.  But it's Bush who wants to destroy them, not Kerry.  Once the Islamic terrorists have been reduced to a mere nuisance level, Kerry will be able to turn his attention to other matters, like raising taxes on the evil rich (apparently another nuisance) and expanding the reach of the Imperial Federal Government with trillions more in federal spending.

Wait!  There's more!  Listen to what else Kerry had to say:

"As a former law enforcement person, I know we're never going to end prostitution. We're never going to end illegal gambling. But we're going to reduce it, organized crime, to a level where it isn't on the rise. It isn't threatening people's lives every day, and fundamentally, it's something that you continue to fight, but it's not threatening the fabric of your life.''

Oh really?  We're going to compare  Islamic jihadists flying airplanes into buildings and slaughtering 3,000 innocent people with prostitutes or someone taking a bet on a football game?    Unbelievable.  He is comparing terrorism to a victimless crime that society tolerates.  In other words, he's saying that we should just learn to live with the terrorism, as long as there's just not too much of it.  Maybe we ought to establish terror districts in major cities.  If we can just limit the killings to certain neighborhoods everything will be hunky dory.

The Bush camp is jumping on this big-time, and they should.  The ads will start rolling soon on this one.  The United States is engaged in a struggle against terrorism and the Democratic nominee for president of the United States is calling it a nuisance.

Like the TV ads are going to say...how can Kerry fight the war on terror when he doesn't even understand the threat?

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Kerry was just paraphrasing Bush's own Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board chair:

Charlottesville, VA — October 8, 2001 On Friday, October 5, President George W. Bush announced his intention to appoint Philip Zelikow to serve as a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) for a term of two years.

Zelikow is the Director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs and White Burkett Miller Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He will remain at the University in his current position. Members of the PFIAB serve part time and without compensation, except for expenses. Along with Zelikow, President Bush named fourteen other citizens he intends to appoint to the Board. Brent Scowcroft will serve as the Chairman of PFIAB.

http://millercenter.virginia.edu/about/press_releases/10_08_01.html

Scowcroft is confident that the war on terrorism can be won, in the same way the war on organized crime can be won. "There will not be a treaty signed aboard the battleship Missouri, but we can break its back so that it is only a horrible nuisance and not a paralyzing influence on our societies."

http://www.usip.org/peacewatch/2002/12/scowcroft.html

[TrueBlue72 0]

So, TT, you are saying that Kerry has no original ideas???? Most of us have known that for quite some time.

[DKW 86 7,434]

I do not call 3000+ dead, a nuisance.

Kerry said "nuisance."

No one in the administration ever said that.

[TexasTiger 12,972]

So, TT, you are saying that Kerry has no original ideas????  Most of us have known that for quite some time.

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No, but that would come closer to being a more valid criticism than this distorted crap.

[TexasTiger 12,972]

I do not call 3000+ dead, a nuisance.

Kerry said "nuisance."

No one in the administration ever said that.

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Only a moron thinks Kerry called 3000 dead a nuisance. Read the article yourself instead of waiting for Dear Leader's Thought Control Division to tell you what to believe.

[DKW 86 7,434]

I do not call 3000+ dead, a nuisance.

Kerry said "nuisance."

No one in the administration ever said that.

110890[/snapback]

Only a moron thinks Kerry called 3000 dead a nuisance. Read the article yourself instead of waiting for Dear Leader's Thought Control Division to tell you what to believe.

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You said he "Paraphrased" nuisance ferom the the Bush Adm.

I just pointed out that No one in the Bush Adm. ever said anything like that.

[Jenny AU-92 0]

And Brent Scowcroft is a member of an advisory board. The buck does NOT stop with him. He is not running for the job of Commander In Chief. Kerry is a dangerous, clueless individual that just does not get it.

[AURaptor 1,125]

Only a moron thinks Kerry called 3000 dead a nuisance.  Read the article yourself instead of waiting for Dear Leader's Thought Control Division to tell you what to believe.

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Why are you trying to deflect away from Kerry's own comments ? This has nothing to do w/ Bush or his 'Thought Control Division', as you absurdly put it. If the best you can do in response to Kerry's ridiculous comments is try to direct attention toward something completely irrelevent, then you're nothing but a myrmidon for the Left. Pathetic

[TexasTiger 12,972]

I do not call 3000+ dead, a nuisance.

Kerry said "nuisance."

No one in the administration ever said that.

110890[/snapback]

Only a moron thinks Kerry called 3000 dead a nuisance. Read the article yourself instead of waiting for Dear Leader's Thought Control Division to tell you what to believe.

110924[/snapback]

You said he "Paraphrased" nuisance ferom the the Bush Adm.

I just pointed out that No one in the Bush Adm. ever said anything like that.

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You didn't read my post. He didn't paraphrase "nuisance". That was the word used by Bush's Chair of his Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board after 9/11. Didn't bother Bush then.

[DKW 86 7,434]

Kerry's lackies said he "paraphrased" the Bush Admin.

http://www.slate.com/Default.aspx?id=2108110&

The reference to niusance was never the War on Terrorism, it was simply very small parts of the very large whole. No One in the Bush admin EVEr said that THE WAR ON TERRORISM could ever be reduced to a nuisance.

Read the quotes yourselves.

The deaths of small numbers of Afghanis, numerous small explosions in Iraq that do little damage, and the chance of Chemical and Biological Weapons being used during the initial assault in Iraq are all nuisance problems to the rest of us.

THE WAR ON TERROR is no nuisance thang