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Got this off of another website that I read and thought everyone would like to see it. Credit goes to Fred F.
This is a response to someone who felt that Kerry was not the best choice.
GO JK!
He fought for the nation literally doing two tours (not "four months"
as the Right-wing media like to say, the second tour was 4 months).
When he got back he fought for what he believed in by protesting the
war. He earned the right to protest that war. Contrary to what the
Republican spin machine would have you believe, dissent is not
unpatriotic, and saying that the war in Iraq is a failure does not
make you un-American.
He fought for what he believed in as a prosecutor, taking organized
crime head-on and putting the #2 organized crime figure in New
England. He also fought for victims rights, especially rape victims.
In his first term in the Senate he smelled an awful stench emanating
from the White House and dug a bit and uncovered the Iran Contra
affair. He found this by tracing the flow of drugs - from his days as
a prosecutor he had been fighting the drug war specifically how drugs
were used to finance criminal activity.
Bush beats him up over the yes vote for the Iraq war followed by
saying that the war was wrong. The president needed war authority at
that point, but nobody outside the white house could have known that
Bush was lying about intel, lying when he said he would seek a broad
coalition (NB: Great Britain reducing its troop strength by 1/3 in
October - we're going to be the only country there pretty soon), and
would totally bumble the entire mission, ignoring his military leaders
who said that we needed 2x the number of troops in order to secure the
country so that things wouldn't get out of hand like they have. Not
just that but Kerry didn't know that Bush was lying about WMDs.
As for the $87 billion - Kerry supported a version that would have
funded it by rolling back the tax cuts on the wealthy Americans. Bush
said he'd veto that version. So note: Kerry in favor of $87 billion,
Bush opposed. This also followed Bush's refusal to estimate the cost
of the war prior to the budget being passed even though he clearly had
an estimate. The version that ended up being passed just borrowed the
money - this way the rich can get their tax cuts. Kerry was opposed
to the method of funding it. And even with that $87 billion, Bush has
still not bothered buying body armor for all of our troops. Disgusting.
Kerry has served admirably on the Foreign Relations Committee for 19
years giving him probably more expertise than the guy sitting in the
Oval Office right now (well, he's not actually sitting there. He's
either out campaigning or on vacation, depends on the day).
John Kerry's only crime if you will is that he is from Massachusetts,
a state wrongly labelled as extremely liberal. "Taxachusetts" has a
lower per capita tax burden than say Georgia, and has a Republican
governor. Ted Kennedy's association with the state hurts John Kerry
more than anything Kerry has done.
Kerry is a very strong candidate. He is not just the "Anyone But
Bush" candidate - he will make a very strong president. (Especially
if you consider that the Republicans will control the House so even if
the Dems get the Senate we will not have single-party rule which is
the absolute worst thing for this country in terms of setting policy,
IMO).
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