Author: Gunner

Apparently tired of lying about Bush’s “unilateral” campaign in Iraq, John Kerry might be taking steps to disperse our coalition himself, with his own sister acting as surrogate.

JOHN Kerry’s campaign has warned Australians that the Howard Government’s support for the US in Iraq has made them a bigger target for international terrorists.

Diana Kerry, younger sister of the Democrat presidential candidate, told The Weekend Australian that the Bali bombing and the recent attack on the Australian embassy in Jakarta clearly showed the danger to Australians had increased.

“Australia has kept faith with the US and we are endangering the Australians now by this wanton disregard for international law and multilateral channels,” she said, referring to the invasion of Iraq.

Captain Ed over at Captain’s Quarters effectively takes Kerry to task for this maneuver.

So much for “building alliances”! Kerry has now acted to undermine a critical relationship in the war on terror just to score some electoral points.

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Does John Kerry care more about grabbing power than he does about the United States? It certainly appears that way. Who gave the order for Diana Kerry to interfere with the Australian election? Who told her to act in a manner that is calculated to undermine the American-Australian partnership on the terror war? Frankly, not only should this disqualify him for the presidency, it should disqualify anyone involved in his campaign from ever holding public office. Those who condone this interference in a wartime alliance must be punished at the polls, and their party as a whole should be blocked from any power whatsoever until they atone for their actions.

Just as interesting was this from CQ commenter Dismuke:

Gee – why bomb trains prior to an election when you have the Kerry campaign out there trying to accomplish the exact same thing?

Frankly, as the days go by, the more I’m disgusted by John Kerry. He is seriously doing all he can to turn my pro-Bush vote into an anti-Kerry vote.

An article released by the French press AFP enumerates a list of recent attacks and claims by the seemingly desperate Kerry campaign and their negligible, perhaps negative, effect on voters.

First, let’s look at the attacks.

Kerry’s claim that the White House has a secret callup plan stirred up the presidential election campaign….

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Kerry has condemned the president over his own military service and his handling of Iraq and the economy.

He has also hit out at Cheney over his links to Halliburton, the controversial oil and general services giant which is in trouble over military contracts in Iraq.

In his latest assault, Kerry said the president has a secret plan to call up large numbers of reservists for Iraq duty, which he said will be announced only after the November 2 election.

“He won’t tell us that day by day we’re running out of soldiers and that we’re now resorting to a backdoor draft from our reservists and our National Guard,” the Massachusetts senator said during a campaign stop in Albuquerque on Friday.

First, yes, many reservists are currently scheduled to go to Iraq. This is known, not secret. Many have been called up and scheduled to rotate in January. More will assuredly be needed. Second, the attacks on the president’s service won’t work as long as surrogates assisting in the assault rely on forgeries and shoddy journalism. Maybe not even then, as the focus on Viet Nam has not helped Kerry since the primaries. Third, the evil Halliburton attacks only work with the far left, and ignore the abilities and sacrifices of the corporation. Fourth, can someone freakin’ tell Kerry that the phrase “backdoor draft” refers to stop-loss, not utilizing the reserves. It means keeping people from exiting after their commitment is complete. This guy will only have limited respect from the military as long as he cannot speak their language.

The article then looks at the current effectiveness of the strategy of attacking everything Bush while never establishing anything Kerry.

Two polls published Thursday had shown Kerry pulling even with Bush, but a third gave the Republican a healthy 13-point margin.

The CBS/New York Times poll said Bush’s lead had widened from seven to nine points in the past week.

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The Times said voters are saying that Kerry “has not laid out a case for why he wants to be president and expressing strong concern about his ability to manage an international crisis.”

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But it said that Bush has been “lifted as much by what Mr Kerry has done wrong as by what Mr Bush has done right.”

Maybe, just maybe, the American public doesn’t want a candidate whose stance on Iraq and other terror issues is a wheel of fortune, spinning around with constant options of definitely, definitely not, and definitely maybe but certainly differently if so. Unfortunately for the Kerry campaign right now, a good chunk of the electorate is still living in a post-9/11 world.