Transcript of Kerry's Terrorism Speech @ Temple U

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http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=36871

Kerry is the MAN!

We need to end this confusion. We need national leaders who will face reality - not only in Iraq but in the war on terror. And we need a president who has no doubt that the war on terror can and must be won.

The invasion of Iraq was a profound diversion from the battle against our greatest enemy -- Al Qaeda -- which killed more than three thousand people on 9/11 and which still plots our destruction today. And there's just no question about it: the President's misjudgment, miscalculation and mismanagement of the war in Iraq all make the war on terror harder to win. Iraq is now what it was not before the war - a haven for terrorists. George Bush made Saddam Hussein the priority. I would have made Osama bin Laden the priority. As president, I will finish the job in Iraq and refocus our energies on the real war on terror.

I will wage this war relentlessly with a single-minded determination: to capture or kill the terrorists, crush their movement and free the world from fear. To destroy our enemy, we have to know our enemy. We have to understand that we are facing a radical fundamentalist movement with global reach and a very specific plan. They are not just out to kill us for the sake of killing us. They want to provoke a conflict that will radicalize the people of the Muslim world, turning them against the United States and the West. And they hope to transform that anger into a force that will topple the region's governments and pave the way for a new empire, an oppressive, fundamentalist superstate stretching across a vast area from Europe to Africa, from the Middle East to Central Asia.

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1. Kerry gave a great talk.

Kerry gave an excellent talk that was covered by CNN, FOX and MSNBC. He layed out his strategy for fighting terrorism and handling Iraq and listed all the wrong choices Bush has made. He definitely knows what we need to do - unlike Bush.

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2. Kerry keeps saying what I believed from the start

It's really an amazing relief to have a candidate out there who finally has the guts to say what anybody with any common sense figured out as soon as we blew off Afghanistan.

I feel vindicated. Personally. So there, you ostriches in the media.