Kerry Says Bush `Dropped the Ball' on US Security [article deleted]

[truthisfreedom]

i was about to post from this article and it was suddenly deleted. when i went to get some quotes, POOF! it was gone, and no amount of searching turns it up.

if you go to news.google.com and type in "dropped the ball" into the search window, you can see the link, but the article appears to have been retracted. very very suspicious.

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=a9Qa4PTqWifg&refer=top_world_news

Kerry Says Bush `Dropped the Ball' on US Security (Update1)
Bloomberg - 2 hours ago

1 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry said President George W. Bush ``dropped the ball on homeland security'' and is trying to catch up.

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[NMDemDist2]

1. hmmmmm very odd EOM

[never cry wolf]

2. Here ya go

Apparently they have updated it.

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=abX7YfagxZyA&refer=top_world_news

http://news.google.com/news?q=%22dropped+the+ball%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&tab=wn&scoring=d

[truthisfreedom]

3. thanks for the link. i found a similar article on Reuters and posted it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Tom Ridge was right

there was some chatter... and it was on FOX... oh my

[Trillo]

4. Try this link:

"I think this administration has dropped the ball on homeland security. I think they are now moving to catch up. But what America wants is leadership that's ahead of the curve, that doesn't have to be told by an independent commission -- which they, incidentally, fought to prevent,"
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040801/pl_nm/security_commission_kerry_dc_1

[AirAmFan]

6. Kerry could have quoted Paul Bremer, *'s Iraq gauleiter, from 6 mos before 9/11

From http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-bremer3may03,1,3598879.story

'May 3, 2004

From Associated Press

BAGHDAD. L. Paul Bremer III, the U.S. administrator in Iraq, said Sunday that he regretted a statement he made more than six months before the Sept. 11 attacks that the Bush administration was "paying no attention" to terrorism. Bremer said any implied criticism that President Bush was not acting against terrorism was "unfair." Ahead of the November election, Bush is facing criticism he didn't make terrorism his No. 1 priority before the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center, and then weakened the war on terrorism by invading Iraq and shifting the focus from Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network. The resurfacing of Bremer's comments added to the administration's frustrations.

AT A MCCORMICK TRIBUNE FOUNDATION CONFERENCE ON TERRORISM ON FEB. 26, 2001, BREMER SAID, "THE NEW ADMINISTRATION SEEMS TO BE PAYING NO ATTENTION TO THE PROBLEM OF TERRORISM. What they will do is stagger along until there's a major incident and then suddenly say, 'Oh, my God, shouldn't we be organized to deal with this?' "That's too bad. They've been given a window of opportunity with very little terrorism now, and they're not taking advantage of it." Bremer made the speech after he had chaired the National Commission on Terrorism, a bipartisan body formed by the Clinton administration to examine counterterrorism policies.'

[MichiganVote]

7. 'Dropped the ball' is an understatement