Kerry - Heinz - King interview

[tch1718a]

Let's get to, first thing's first, news of the day. Tom Ridge warned today about al Qaeda plans of a large-scale attack on the United States, didn't increase the -- do you see any politics in this? What's your reaction?

KERRY: Well, I haven't been briefed yet, Larry. They have offered to brief me; I just haven't had time. But all Americans are united in our efforts to defeat terrorism.

The guy wants to lead the free world but does not have the time to be briefed on a potential large scale attack.

KING: When do you -- when do you get your briefing?

KERRY: We're arranging it. It's at the end of the week I'll get it.

KING: Should be pretty soon.

KERRY: I think it's tomorrow or the next day.

Not being anything to do with being super liberal, I wonder if he showed up for the brief.

KING: And as for the vice president, he gets one, as well, right?

KERRY: I hope he will. It's presumed.

Kinda makes me feel like it's all a little trivial to him. In his shoes I would want to know. Both these charecters being on the intel. commitee I think they should be actively seeking this info.

KING: Why did you vote against the additional financial support?

KERRY: I voted against that support at that time as a statement that we should get the policy right. And because they were unwilling to fund it in an appropriate way.

Translation: I voted to allow US warriors to die based on policy.
Notice here also that L.K. did not ask why he voted for it firtst.

KING: Concerning weapons of mass destruction, do you think they believed it, or do you think you were mislead?

KERRY: Oh, I think many of us believed it based on the information that we were given, Larry, but it's ...

KING: You don't blaming the president for believing it.

KERRY: Here's -- I went to a briefing at the Pentagon where we were shown photographs and we were told, with specificity, what's in the photographs. And when you would try to find -- well what's the source for this? Do we have a -- well, we have you know -- this is from the following sources. We can't share all the sources, and so forth.

The fact is that with their sources, had I been president, would've raised remarkable doubts at that moment. Because when we've learned after the fact who the sources are, many of us knew those sources at that time, and we would have put doubt in them.

But as a member of the Intel commitee, he did not bother to ask the questions that he bashes Bush over now. Looks a little bit like tip toeing to me now.

Do you think that they should have stayed in Afghanistan first, they should have found Osama bin Laden?

KERRY: Absolutely, positively. They had Osama bin Laden, Larry, and they actually...

KING: Clinton had him, too, almost.

KERRY: But then they -- yes, but in very different circumstances. America, number one, had not been attacked in that way, on our territory, here in America. Number two, the Congress and the country had not licensed the president to go to the lengths that we licensed George Bush.

I'm not sure what he is saying here. I seem to remember the WTC being attacked during the Clinton years. As well as the USS. Cole, embassy in Africa, and the barracks in Saudi.
How many time was Bin Laden offered to Clinton anyway?

All this came from a transcript fromm cnn on july 8th. There was alot more that could be picked apart. I tried to be fair with this and not take things out of context. That can be hard with Kerry because you can never be sure of what side of the issue he is on.

[Snowden]

By tch1718a: I'm not sure what he is saying here. I seem to remember the WTC being attacked during the Clinton years. As well as the USS. Cole, embassy in Africa, and the barracks in Saudi.
How many time was Bin Laden offered to Clinton anyway?

All this came from a transcript fromm cnn on july 8th. There was alot more that could be picked apart. I tried to be fair with this and not take things out of context. That can be hard with Kerry because you can never be sure of what side of the issue he is on.

I don't know how many times Clinton was offered bin Laden, other than when Sudan had him cornered. One problem was that Clinton is a lawyer and thought like one. I suppose that meant he had no evidence he could be sure of. Who knows?

The first attack against us was quite possibly something like TWA Flight 800 or the Oklahoma federal building it seems. This is based on new evidence or new suspicion - I'm not sure which. If someone here knows, I would like to hear about it!

As for Kerry; no we can't be sure of what side of the issue he is on - or how long he will remain on that side of the issue.

[tch1718a]

I'm sure there are several other attacks that I missed. Lord knows how many flat out failed that we heard nothing of and more still that were thwarted and we will never hear of. The ones mentioned are just the first few that crossed my mind.