Posted 2:28 AM by Steve
"Unfit for Command"


The leadership and patriotism of John Kerry, who apparently lied about his record in Vietnam, is being seriously questioned by his fellow swift boat veterans. At www.swiftvets.com you can find seriously damaging allegations made against John Kerry.

Members of his own unit claim he exaggerated his wounds (perhaps even inflicted them himself) in order to get Purple Hearts. They also wonder why he claims to have been in Cambodia on Christmas eve of 1968 when his unit was nowhere near the area. The fact is, he couldn't have been:

During Christmas 1968, Kerry was stationed at Coastal Division 13 in Cat Lo. Coastal Division 13’s patrol areas extended to Sa Dec, about fifty-five miles from the Cambodian border. Areas closer than fifty-five miles to the Cambodian border in the area of the Mekong River were patrolled by PBRs, a small river patrol craft, and not by Swift Boats

Lies, damned lies, and politics:

John Kerry, became a sweetheart of the anti-war movement and the North Vietnamese Communists when he testified before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on April 22, 1971, telling the Senators and a national audience that American troops "...had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Ghengis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam..." and accused the U.S. military of committing war crimes "on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command."

Later he admitted on a television talk show that he had witnessed no such thing. So, in addition to lying about his service he lied before Congress.

Isn't it amazing that the best ticket the Democrats have to offer consists of a total fraud and a trial lawyer?

Posted 12:16 AM by Steve
President Bush is rightly mocking John Kerry for his latest flip-flop on Iraq. Kerry, supposedly the "anti-war" candidate, initially voted FOR the war in Iraq. Later, Kerry joined in the chorus of criticism against President Bush when it was perceived as politically correct to be against the war. Kerry voted AGAINST $87 Billion to keep our troops supplied, armed and as safe as possible in Iraq. Now when asked about removing Saddam's regime Kerry says he would not have changed his vote!

It's interesting that the media is posing the Iraq question to John Kerry from the "what you know now standpoint" Consider carefully what we know now (particularly in conjunction with our knowledge of al-Qaeda's collaboration with Iraq and other terrorist groups for decades)

We have discovered dozens of WMD-related program activities and significant amounts of equipment that Iraq concealed from the United Nations during the inspections that began in late 2002. The discovery of these deliberate concealment efforts have come about both through the admissions of Iraqi scientists and officials concerning information they deliberately withheld and through physical evidence of equipment and activities that ISG has discovered that should have been declared to the UN. Let me just give you a few examples of these concealment efforts, some of which I will elaborate on later:

*A clandestine network of laboratories and safehouses within the Iraqi Intelligence Service that contained equipment subject to UN monitoring and suitable for continuing CBW research.

*A prison laboratory complex, possibly used in human testing of BW agents, that Iraqi officials working to prepare for UN inspections were explicitly ordered not to declare to the UN.
Reference strains of biological organisms concealed in a scientist's home, one of which can be used to produce biological weapons.

*New research on BW-applicable agents, Brucella and Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), and continuing work on ricin and aflatoxin were not declared to the UN.

*Documents and equipment, hidden in scientists' homes, that would have been useful in resuming uranium enrichment by centrifuge and electromagnetic isotope separation (EMIS).

*A line of UAVs not fully declared at an undeclared production facility and an admission that they had tested one of their declared UAVs out to a range of 500 km, 350 km beyond the permissible limit.

*Continuing covert capability to manufacture fuel propellant useful only for prohibited SCUD variant missiles, a capability that was maintained at least until the end of 2001 and that cooperating Iraqi scientists have said they were told to conceal from the UN.

*Plans and advanced design work for new long-range missiles with ranges up to at least 1000 km - well beyond the 150 km range limit imposed by the UN. Missiles of a 1000 km range would have allowed Iraq to threaten targets through out the Middle East, including Ankara, Cairo, and Abu Dhabi.

*Clandestine attempts between late-1999 and 2002 to obtain from North Korea technology related to 1,300 km range ballistic missiles --probably the No Dong -- 300 km range anti-ship cruise missiles, and other prohibited military equipment.

In addition to the discovery of extensive concealment efforts, we have been faced with a systematic sanitization of documentary and computer evidence in a wide range of offices, laboratories, and companies suspected of WMD work. The pattern of these efforts to erase evidence - hard drives destroyed, specific files burned, equipment cleaned of all traces of use - are ones of deliberate, rather than random, acts. For example,

*On 10 July 2003 an ISG team exploited the Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) Headquarters in Baghdad. The basement of the main building contained an archive of documents situated on well-organized rows of metal shelving. The basement suffered no fire damage despite the total destruction of the upper floors from coalition air strikes. Upon arrival the exploitation team encountered small piles of ash where individual documents or binders of documents were intentionally destroyed. Computer hard drives had been deliberately destroyed. Computers would have had financial value to a random looter; their destruction, rather than removal for resale or reuse, indicates a targeted effort to prevent Coalition forces from gaining access to their contents.

*All IIS laboratories visited by IIS exploitation teams have been clearly sanitized, including removal of much equipment, shredding and burning of documents, and even the removal of nameplates from office doors.

*Although much of the deliberate destruction and sanitization of documents and records probably occurred during the height of OIF combat operations, indications of significant continuing destruction efforts have been found after the end of major combat operations, including entry in May 2003 of the locked gated vaults of the Ba'ath party intelligence building in Baghdad and highly selective destruction of computer hard drives and data storage equipment along with the burning of a small number of specific binders that appear to have contained financial and intelligence records, and in July 2003 a site exploitation team at the Abu Ghurayb Prison found one pile of the smoldering ashes from documents that was still warm to the touch.

Posted 3:14 AM by Steve
Wow, the media seems to be complaining about job growth and low unemployment!!


By most measures, the Bush administration continued their successful and unparalleled economic recovery: job creation was excellent. This report comes as a total contradiction to the Democrats who would actually (surprise!) accuse the President Bush of doing a poor job with the economy. With numbers coming from the U.S. government's Bureau of Labor Statistics and are compiled by telephoning a sample of 60,000 households. This report showed a gain of 629,000 jobs in July. Before seasonal adjustment, the gain was an even larger 839,000 jobs!

The household survey is used to calculate the unemployment rate, which fell to 5.5 percent in July, the lowest level since October 2001, from 5.6 percent. Over all, the household survey now shows that employment has risen by 1.9 million jobs, or 1.4 percent, since President George W. Bush took office.

Congratulations, Mr. President and thank you for your hard work and principled dedication. Not only has your tremendous leadership restored our faith in this country but your common-sense economic policies are doing wonders for the economy.

Posted 1:50 AM by Steve
Democrats have no shame.

After listening to 4 years of them questioning President Bush's military record, now it seems they feel a candidates history is off limits. They feign indignation and outrage over the fact that the men who served with John Kerry in Vietnam think he is not trustworthy, and lying about his record.

It would seem they want it both ways. They want the freedom to make accusations about President Bush's history while they want to restrict their opposition from doing the same thing.

I think having a Commander-In-Chief with principles and character is a major issue in this campaign and we can see from Kerry's flip-flopping on Iraq and his "Sensitive War on Terror" garbage that he ain't the man for the job.