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Kerry’s Politicization of Homeland Security and Funding Our Troops

By Matt Margolis | March 18, 2004

Kerry, the “Veteran’s Veteran” has found all sorts of ways to explain his vote against supporting our troops. You can’t make up stuff like “I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it,” which Kerry said yesterday.

Funny John Kerry thinks its okay for him to vote against something he “supported” before, yet he’s attacked George W. Bush for opposing the original proposal for the Homeland Security Department… of course the fact that Bush did sign the bill that created the Department is irrelevant.

I wonder if John Kerry has criticized Ted Kennedy for voting against the creation Homeland Security Department? Or how about himself for siding with labor unions voting against Homeland Security six times???

Earlier this week, RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie noted that Kerry and other Senate Democrats delayed the creation of the Department of Homeland Security:

Once again, Candidate Kerry needs to be reminded of Senator Kerry’s voting record. Senator Kerry voted six times to delay the implementation of the Department of Homeland Security because of pressure from public employee unions.

John Kerry and his Democrat colleagues in the United States Senate stalled the implementation of the Department of Homeland Security for a total of 112 days. Once again, John Kerry appears to be factually challenged. Whether it’s talking about meeting with foreign leaders or forgetting his own voting record, John Kerry’s speeches continue to raise more questions than they answer.

John Kerry has politicized Homeland Security – at the expensive of the security of our nation. With the $87 billion for out troops he did not vote for, Kerry’s left a trail of excuses showing how he’s politicized their safety.

In February, the Boston Globe reported that Kerry “wanted part of the money to come from rolling back GOP-backed tax cuts.”

So Kerry wanted to use the troops as political props to axe the tax cuts which turned around the economy?

Last October, Kerry said it was because Bush “broke every promise and he’s done it wrong every step of the way.” And he said “I’m not going to vote for him to continue to do it wrong.’”

So Kerry won’t vote to support the troops because of his political issues with Bush? Kerry has also said that he opposed the $87 billion because of the “failure” to internationalize the reconstruction effort and “take the target off of American troops.” So, while Kerry recognized that our troops are “targets” he still didn’t want to fund them because he feels that Bush “has a fraudulent coalition.”

Kerry’s vote against the $87 billion was clearly his own politically motivated move to be anti-Bush as opposed to pro-troops. This “veteran’s veteran” is going around the country calling Bush weak on Homeland Security and accusing Bush of not providing enough for the troops when Kerry’s own mouth proves that it is in fact Kerry who has put his political hatred before our country’s best interested. “‘My vote is a clear statement, ” Kerry said last October, “making it absolutely clear that this president has not pursued the best policy . . . to make our troops safe,”

Because Kerry hates Bush, he felt leaving the troops without body armor and other important supplies was the best policy. How could this country elect someone who chose to be anti-Bush at the expense of being pro-troops?

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Cross-posted on Blogs For Bush