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Actions Speak Louder Than Words
By Matt Margolis | June 5, 2004
John Kerry has once again let down our troops.
Last month, Kerry issued the following statement regarding President Bush’s request for $25 billion for our troops in Iraq:
“I will support the Administration’s request for emergency funds for our troops. The situation in Iraq has deteriorated far beyond what the Administration anticipated. This money is urgently needed, and it is completely focused on the needs of our troops. We must give our troops the equipment and support to carry out their missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
The past few days on the Kerry site have been completely silent on the vote this week on the $25 billion dollars to support our troops. Curiously absent indeed - just like Kerry was when the vote for the $25 billion occurred.
Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman is equally disappointed in John Kerry, “We believe that actions speak louder than words on winning the peace,” and he noted that Kerry missed the vote “to give a political speech.”
John Kerry has gone from saying he supports the funding for our troops, to snubbing the troops completely. To make this even worse, Kerry has spent the past few days following Memorial Day trying to woo Veterans and trying to play the role as a friend to the military. And in between that, his blog has a number of sophomoric posts on Enron, some of them featuring a “masked man” named “Enron Ed.”
Last month, I was highly suspicious of Kerry’s “support” for the $25 billion in extra funds for our troops:
… is Kerry going to actually vote for the $25 billion, or is he just not going to show up for the vote, (just like with the unemployment benefits extension vote) so he can claim that he supports the troops, but doesn’t have to support a request by President Bush with his vote.
Looks like I wasn’t too far off…
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June 5th, 2004 at 1:30 am
His comment will be ” I didn’t vote agaimst it.”
June 5th, 2004 at 1:34 am
And no doubt Kerry was not only absent giving a speech–he was absent giving a speech full of plagiarized statements he’ll blame on his speech writers!
Let’s just hope Dean, Soros and Gore keep plugging for him. Add Jimmy Carter or George McGovern to the mix, and you’d have the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Let’s just hope they support Kerry right into oblivion, where he belongs.
June 7th, 2004 at 8:01 am
You’re getting a little desparate looking for things to criticize here, aren’t you? The measure he supported passed overwhelmingly. What’s the problem here?
June 9th, 2004 at 9:45 pm
I think if John ” hey I served in Vit Nam, did I tell you I served in Viet Nam?” Kerry really cared about the troops in the field then he would have made sure he was there. He stopped everything so he could vote against gun rights. Why not for our troops during war?