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Rush Re-Aims...
Now that Sen. Kerry is the frontrunner, Rush has devoted himself to seizing any possible opportunity to demagogue and lauch attacks.
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All right, John Kerry last night said the threat of terrorism has been exaggerated. "I think there's been an exaggeration. The Bush administration is misleading all Americans in a profound way." I just want to read to you what's on his website. The John Kerry for president website, by the way. "The most basic responsibility of government is to provide for the common defense. The Bush administration has provided too little support, too little leadership, and too little vision for the common defense of our homeland. John Kerry has the courage to roll back George Bush's tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans so we can invest in our homeland security. America needs a new tax increase for homeland security that asks Americans to do more and take steps as big as the threats we face."
That's your candidate, Democrats, I mean you do with it what you will. First he never said what I said, claimed he never said what he said about nobody in the Democratic Party needing the south. He did say it. Now he's out there saying Bush is over...you know, this is almost Deanesque, to run around out there and start talking about how, "I don't believe all this terrorism talk of the president, he's over-blowing it, I don't believe all this," and then you go to his website, "we need to get rid of the Bush tax cut so we can pay for all this defense for terrorism that we have to face."
I don't care what's happening in the White House, folks, this stuff is just sheer panic city if these people get anywhere near the White House. I'll tell you, it is going to be genuine panic time. And I want to remind you again why the liberals are the way they are: they're just afraid, folks. These poor people are just afraid. They believe that they can make friends with people like Osama bin Laden, they think if they just show people like that that our military is not going to harm them, that we have no intention of going beyond our borders and we're not going to launch missiles at them, that they'll leave us alone. They're just afraid. They're just afraid all this is going to lead to them getting hurt or something. They're just scared. And they actually do believe that this is the way to deal with people who intend us harm.
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It is obvious that Kerry was refering to the Bush administration's repeated efforts to use terrorism as a hammer to engineer support for the invasion of Iraq. On numerous occasions, they suggested and implied that Sadam was just as much a terrorist threat as Al-Queda. They
even implied Sadam was involved in the 9/11 attack. Of course none of this proved to be true. The Bush administration DID exaggerate the terrorist threat in terms of their rhetoric designed to cause the public to support the invasion of Iraq. This is obviously what
Kerry was referring too.
And again Rush tosses out the absurd and completely baseless accustion that democrats won't resort to military actions (they have) and would negotiate with Ossama Bin Laden (they have not). There is no factual basis for this. After 9/11, there was pretty much
unanimous support for military action in Afghanistan, unanimous support for increasing funding for counter terrorism, etc. Rush has no legitimate basis for making such a claim. Rush also conveniently neglected to remind his listeners that prior to 9/11, the Bush
administration was negotiating with the Taliban, even giving them 40 million in aid.
What is Rush afraid of? He is afraid listeners won't tune in. That is why he makes statements they like to hear, not what is fair or rational. Rush's fear is why is abandons truth and replaces it with demagoguery and simpleton attacks.
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