Campaign promises and campaign criticism are in the same vein, aren't they? Both untrue, both extreme, both said in an attempt to get elected. I'm personally sick of Kerry's constant criticism of Bush.
First, there's nothing easier that criticising the job someone else is doing. If he does end up with the job himself, he'll find it's not quite as easy as he makes it sound. But you know what? Kerry should know that already. He's been a senator for twenty years. He should know how hard it is to get the job done. Or has he not been paying attention?
Second, Kerry's criticism is generally untrue. He leaves out half the story or places the blame where it doesn't belong. Take his charge that the military doesn't have the equipment it needs to get the job done. Turns out our soldiers don't have adequate protective gear so their parents are buying it for them. Kerry says that's all Bush's fault. He doesn't remind us that he himself has consistently voted to cut our military. He doesn't remind us that he turned down Bush's request for more military spending in Iraq. He hasn't taken any responsibility for the situation. He's a blamer and god, do I hate blamers.
Here's another example: the vaccine shortage. Kerry lays the blame for that on Bush, of course. He doesn't mention that ten years ago, there were 25 vaccine makers in the U.S. But then the Clinton administration passed a wonderful new law requiring vaccine makers to sell their vaccines at half price to make them more available to the disenfranchised poor. Sounds good, doesn't it? Sounds all beneficial and helpful, eh? Unfortunately twenty vaccine makers couldn't survive the resulting monetary shake-out. They went bankrupt. Now the remaining five vaccine makers struggle to meet demand. Who's fault is it? According to Kerry, it's Bush's fault.
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Prior to the war, Bush claimed in 7 seperate speeches in the space of 3 months that there was a connection between Hussein and Al Quaeda. There never was a connection and there was never reliable evidence of one. Never ever.
That means the president lied to the American people to drag us into a war. That is treason. He should be impeached and imprisoned.
Remember Clinton? The congress spent $75 million investigating his sex life, and then impeached him for lying about it. Which is worse, lying about your sex life (which is no one else's business anyway) or lying about intelligence prior to declaring a war? You figure it out.
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