Doug Ross @ Journal

The John Kerry Timeline!

Forward this exciting timeline to all of your friends! And here's a fun game you can play at home: print this page out, cut the quotes into separate pieces of paper, shuffle them up, and guess which years Kerry said them... it's entertaining, wholesome fun for the whole family!

1970

“I’m an internationalist... I’d like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations." (Harvard Crimson)

[I want] “to almost eliminate CIA activity." (Harvard Crimson)

1971

"Our democracy is a farce; it is not the best in the world." (Newsmax)

"I committed the same kinds of atrocities as thousands of others in that I shot in free fire zones, used harassment and interdiction fire, joined in search and destroy missions, and burned villages. All of these acts were established policies from the top down, and the men who ordered this are war criminals." (William Fullbright's Senate Foreign Relations Committee)

1984

"The Reagan Administration has no rational plan for our military. Instead, it acts on misinformed assumptions about the strength of the Soviet military and a presumed 'window of vulnerability' which we now know not to exist." (Accuracy in Media)

“We are continuing a defense buildup that is consuming our resources with weapons systems that we don't need and can't use." (Accuracy in Media)

“...[t]here’s no excuse for casting even one vote for unnecessary weapons of destruction, and as your Senator, I will never do so," (Newsmax)

1985

"We believe this is a wonderful opening for a peaceful settlement... Is this administration going to overthrow the government of the Sandinistas no matter what they do?", discussing the Communist Sandanistas... Secretary of State George Shultz was sufficiently disgusted with Kerry that he publicly denounced him for 'dealing with the communists' and letting himself be 'used'. (Accuracy in Media)

1986

Admitting that the evidence tying Libya to the disco bombing was “irrefutable," Kerry said after the raid, "It is obvious that our response was not proportional to the disco bombing... There are numerous other actions we can take, in concert with our allies, to bring significant pressure to bear on countries supporting or harboring terrorists." (Newsmax)

1996

"...look at all the potential threats of the world, and when you add the expenditures of all of our allies... you have to stop and say... 'What is it that we are really preparing for in a post-cold-war world?'" (Congressional Record, p. S5061)

1997

“Now that [the Cold War] is over, why is it that our vast intelligence apparatus continues to grow…?" (Intellectual Conservative)

2002

"I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force -- if necessary-- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security." (Senate speech)

"The Iraqi regime's record over the decade leaves little doubt that Saddam Hussein wants to retain his arsenal of weapons of mass destruction and to expand it to include nuclear weapons. We cannot allow him to prevail in that quest." (JohnKerry.com)

2003

March: "If America is at war, I won't speak a word without measuring how it'll sound to the guys doing the fighting when they're listening to their radios in the desert." (Boston Globe)

April: "What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States" (Boston Globe)

2004

"I actually did vote for his $87 billion, before I voted against it." (Newsmax)

Postscript

Kerry voted against the B-1 Bomber, the B-2 Stealth Bomber, the F-14, the F-15, and F-16 fighters, the Harrier, AH-64 Apache Helicopters, Patriot Missiles, the Aegis Guided Missile Cruiser, the Trident Missile System, the M-1 Abrams Tank, the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, and the Tomahawk Cruise Missile. And those are only the highlights.

“[Kerry] voted against the first Gulf War in 1991... He offered an amendment to cut $1 1/2 billion from our intelligence funds at a time we were engaged in … serious intelligence work relative to the war against terror, a $300 million cut the year before the USS Cole was attacked, a $300 million cut the year before the embassies in East Africa were attacked, a $300 million cut the year before the Khobar Towers were attacked by the terrorists, two years after the first attack on the World Trade Center..." (Gillespie, CBS Face the Nation)

Executive Summary

Kerry has been consistently wrong every issue of substance regarding foreign policy and the military throughout his entire adult life.

He viciously fought Reagan's attempt to end the Cold War, to no avail.

He viciously fought the anti-Communist Contras in Nicaragua, to no avail.

He supported Clinton's failed policies on North Korea and the Middle East.

He opposed countless critical weapons systems, including nearly every modern weapons system with which we wage war today.

He called for billions to be cut from the intelligence budget even as the threat of Islamic Terrorism grew (and he missed a huge percentage of intelligence committee meetings to boot).

And he voted to send men into war and then voted against the funds to support them.

Kerry is simply unfit to be Commander-in-Chief. Especially in this, the nuclear age of terrorism.

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Reference points:
Harvard Crimson
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/4/22/90429.shtml
Congressional Record, p. S5061
Accuracy in Media, AIM Report: Kerry Subverted Reagan's Pro-Freedom Policies, http://www.aim.org/aim_report/1786_0_4_0_C/
Accuracy in Media, Kerry and the Communists, http://www.aim.org/media_monitor_print/1390_0_2_0/
Newsmax, Phony Praise for Reagan, http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/6/7/114943.shtml
IntellectualConservative.com, Unmasking John Kerry, http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article3146.html
CBS, “Face The Nation," 2/22/04, Ed Gillespie interview, The Boston Globe, “Taking One Prize, Then A Bigger One," 6/19/03
- Sen. Kerry Voted Against B-1 Bomber. (S. 3189, CQ Vote #273: Passed 79-16: R 37-5; D 42-11, 10/15/90, Kerry Voted Nay)
- Sen. Kerry Voted Against B-2 Stealth Bomber. (S. 3189, CQ Vote #273: Passed 79-16: R 37-5; D 42-11, 10/15/90, Kerry Voted Nay)
- Sen. Kerry Voted Against F-14. (H. R. 5803, CQ Vote #319: Adopted 80-17: R 37-6; D 43-11, 10/26/90, Kerry Voted Nay)
- Sen. Kerry Voted Against F-15. (S. 3189, CQ Vote #273: Passed 79-16: R 37-5; D 42-11, 10/15/90, Kerry Voted Nay)
- Sen. Kerry Voted Against F-16. (S. 3189, CQ Vote #273: Passed 79-16: R 37-5; D 42-11, 10/15/90, Kerry Voted Nay)
- Sen. Kerry Voted Against AV-8B Harrier Vertical Takeoff And Landing Jet Fighters. (H.R. 2126, CQ Vote #579: Adopted 59-39: R 48-5; D 11-34, 11/16/95, Kerry Voted Nay)
- Sen. Kerry Voted Against AH-64 Apache Helicopters. (H.R. 2126, CQ Vote #579: Adopted 59-39: R 48-5; D 11-34, 11/16/95, Kerry Voted Nay)
- Sen. Kerry Voted Against Patriot Missiles. (S. 3189, CQ Vote #273: Passed 79-16: R 37-5; D 42-11, 10/15/90, Kerry Voted Nay)
- Sen. Kerry Voted Against Aegis Air Defense Cruiser. (S. 3189, CQ Vote #273: Passed 79-16: R 37-5; D 42-11, 10/15/90, Kerry Voted Nay)
- Sen. Kerry Voted Against Trident Missile System For U.S. Submarines. (S. 3189, CQ Vote #273: Passed 79-16: R 37-5; D 42-11, 10/15/90, Kerry Voted Nay)
- Sen. Kerry Voted Against M-1 Abrams Tanks. (S. 3189, CQ Vote #273: Passed 79-16: R 37-5; D 42-11, 10/15/90, Kerry Voted Nay)
- Sen. Kerry Voted Against Bradley Fighting Vehicle. (S. 3189, CQ Vote #273: Passed 79-16: R 37-5; D 42-11, 10/15/90, Kerry Voted Nay)
- Sen. Kerry Voted Against Tomahawk Cruise Missile. (S. 3189, CQ Vote #273: Passed 79-16: R 37-5; D 42-11, 10/15/90, Kerry Voted Nay)