John Kerry - No Responsibility For Own Actions

Posted By Blackfive

(Jeff J. Mitchell - Reuters)

Perhaps the biggest reason I have a problem with Candidate Kerry is that he has an utter disregard for his own responsibility! I have taken just two examples - his voting record on Intelligence and his ADMISSION of committing war crimes - and looked at how Senator Kerry fails to accept culpability for his own actions.

Kerry Continues to Press Bush on Security
By MIKE GLOVER, Associated Press Writer
<...>"The American people deserve an answer now as to why we had intelligence failures and what the security needs of our nation are," Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee said Sunday. He accused Bush of stonewalling separate probes into those issues.<...>

Well, Senator Kerry, I have the answer that the American people deserve on why our intelligence wasn't quite as good as it could have been. It's because of liberal Senators cutting intelligence spending and then doing a song-and-dance about why they did it and pointing their fingers at an administration that was in control for 8 months before September 11th.

Kerry's 19 Years in Senate Invite Scrutiny
By Helen Dewar and Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, February 8, 2004
<...> Kerry also proposed cuts in funding for the CIA during the 1990s but now advocates a more robust intelligence operation. A Kerry adviser said his proposed intelligence cuts were part of a broader proposal to reduce the deficit and that his goal was to reduce dependence on technological intelligence gathering and buttress human intelligence resources. <...>

John Kerry voted to cut Intelligence by $1,000,000,000 the year after the World Trade Center attacks in 1993. Then, he voted to cut more the next year. While most of that money was for technical intelligence (an Air Force satellite program), it represents his thoughts on Intelligence.

John Kerry Senate Debate - Growing Intelligence Budgets (Senate - May 01, 1997)
[Page: S3891]
"Now that that struggle is over, why is it that our vast intelligence apparatus continues to grow even as Government resources for new and essential priorities fall far short of what is necessary?"

Why would someone vote to cut intel when we had several attacks in the last few years? The spending also includes the FBI. My answer to that question is that there were probably no Intel/Defense contracting lobbyists willing to pay into Kerry's funds.

Wait. Don't go anywhere! I am just getting started...

How about his claim about troops committing atrocities in Vietnam?

I found this record from Meet The Press 30 years ago where John Kerry admitted to committing atrocities in Vietnam.

History News Network

On May 6, 2001 Tim Russert interviewed Senator John Kerry on Meet the Press. In the course of the interview, Mr. Russert asked the senator about his views on Vietnam.

MR. RUSSERT: You mentioned you're a military guy. There's been a lot of discussion about Bob Kerrey, your former Democratic colleague in the Senate, about his talking about his anguish about what happened in Vietnam . You were on this program 30 years ago as a leader of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. And we went back and have an audiotape of that and some still photos. And your comments are particularly timely in this overall discussion of Bob Kerrey. And I'd like for you to listen to those with our audience and then try to put that war into some context:

(Audiotape, April 18, 1971):

MR. CROSBY NOYES (Washington Evening Star): Mr. Kerry, you said at one time or another that you think our policies in Vietnam are tantamount to genocide and that the responsibility lies at all chains of command over there. Do you consider that you personally as a Naval officer committed atrocities in Vietnam or crimes punishable by law in this country?

SEN. KERRY: There are all kinds of atrocities, and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed in that I took part in shootings in free fire zones. I conducted harassment and interdiction fire. I used 50 calibre machine guns, which we were granted and ordered to use, which were our only weapon against people. I took part in search and destroy missions, in the burning of villages. All of this is contrary to the laws of warfare, all of this is contrary to the Geneva Conventions and all of this is ordered as a matter of written established policy by the government of the United States from the top down. And I believe that the men who designed these, the men who designed the free fire zone, the men who ordered us, the men who signed off the air raid strike areas, I think these men, by the letter of the law, the same letter of the law that tried Lieutenant Calley, are war criminals.

(End audiotape)

MR. RUSSERT: Thirty years later, you stand by that?

SEN. KERRY: I don't stand by the genocide. I think those were the words of an angry young man. We did not try to do that. But I do stand by the description--I don't even believe there is a purpose served in the word "war criminal." I really don't. But I stand by the rest of what happened over there, Tim.

When I was a junior officer, I did some stupid things. I might have been young, but I knew what I was doing. But I cannot even imagine for one second that someone that ADMITTED to committing war crimes is readjusting history! That because he was angry and young, he expects to be let off of the hook. Hell, we should open an investigation into this. Let's find the sailors on the #44 and #94 swift boats. Doesn't this pale in comparison to an investigation on whether President Bush was present for duty in Alabama?

Remember this every time he questions the service of ANY other person. Remember this every time he opens his mouth about Vietnam or his veteran support.

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John Kerry - No Responsibility For Own Actions

(Jeff J. Mitchell - Reuters)

Perhaps the biggest reason I have a problem with Candidate Kerry is that he has an utter disregard for his own responsibility! I have taken just two examples - his voting record on Intelligence and his ADMISSION of committing war crimes - and looked at how Senator Kerry fails to accept culpability for his own actions.

Kerry Continues to Press Bush on Security
By MIKE GLOVER, Associated Press Writer
<...>"The American people deserve an answer now as to why we had intelligence failures and what the security needs of our nation are," Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee said Sunday. He accused Bush of stonewalling separate probes into those issues.<...>

Well, Senator Kerry, I have the answer that the American people deserve on why our intelligence wasn't quite as good as it could have been. It's because of liberal Senators cutting intelligence spending and then doing a song-and-dance about why they did it and pointing their fingers at an administration that was in control for 8 months before September 11th.

Kerry's 19 Years in Senate Invite Scrutiny
By Helen Dewar and Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, February 8, 2004
<...> Kerry also proposed cuts in funding for the CIA during the 1990s but now advocates a more robust intelligence operation. A Kerry adviser said his proposed intelligence cuts were part of a broader proposal to reduce the deficit and that his goal was to reduce dependence on technological intelligence gathering and buttress human intelligence resources. <...>

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