Kerry's Campaign Says Austrailians Are Endangered By Supporting U.S.

[RINGLEADER]

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.

<B>"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. </B>

Asked if she believed the terrorist threat to Australians was now greater because of the support for Republican George W. Bush, Ms Kerry said: "The most recent attack was on the Australian embassy in Jakarta -- I would have to say that."

Ms Kerry, who taught school in Indonesia for 15 years until 2000, is heading a campaign called Americans Overseas for Kerry which aims to secure the votes of Americans abroad -- including the more than 100,000 living in Australia.

In the 2000 election, analysts say absentee votes cast overseas tipped the balance to Mr Bush in the decisive state of Florida. Domestic votes put Mr Gore ahead by a few hundred votes, but Mr Bush won by 537 after overseas ballots were included.

In this election, which is decided according to the states won, the Kerry campaign says overseas votes could also determine the result given there are a dozen states where victory might be measured by a few hundred to a few thousand votes. About 5million American voters live overseas and interest in this election was high, Ms Kerry said. About 350,000 absentee ballots were distributed in 2000, but more than a million had been sought this time.

"My belief is US citizens living overseas are very concerned about the current direction of the US, particularly in regard to international affairs," she claimed. "They are on the front lines of the decline of US respect and reputation; they hear it and feel it on a daily basis."

A poll by the Washington-based Pew Centre for People and the Press found that in March this year only 58 per cent of Britons, 37 per cent of French and 38 per cent of Germans had favourable opinions of America, down by more than 20 percentage points in each country from before the Iraq war.

Quizzed on US opinion polls that showed Senator Kerry's campaign flagged through August and that he was now running behind Mr Bush, Ms Kerry said her brother would win the November 2 election.

"He responds well to challenges and has the reputation of fighting well from behind," she said.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,10797507^2703,00.html

[Baby Lee]

Bullet, . . . meet Head.

[RINGLEADER]

This is a sneak peek of where this election is headed. Kerry is going to tell everyone how bad Iraq is while saying Bush is going to take the war on terror to other terrorist states and initiate a new draft. That's pretty much all he has left.

His new ad, however, is just awful. It's almost pleading for voters to quit thinking about homeland security. Really lame.

[FringeNC]

So appeasement of terrorists will now be Kerry's central message? I guess it's consistent with his 84 Senate campaign.

[whoman69]

More misdirection, RINGLEADER. Since when did Kerry's sister become part of his campaign?

[FringeNC]

More misdirection, RINGLEADER. Since when did Kerry's sister become part of his campaign?

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.

Evidently she identified herself as part of the campaign.

[jettio]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5947558/

Hard to believe that someone would draw the conclusion that the Australian Embassy bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia had anything to do with Australia, terrorism, or international affairs.

The link suggests that it was an Islamic terrorist group, Who'd a thunk it? I figured it was someone protesting the fact that the Crocodile Dundee Film Festival Library had so few recent additions and who otherwise just liked to blow sh*t up.




On another note, the GOP strategy is now to become so embarrassingly stupid that it would be impossible for a literate person to understand what they might possibly mean in a thread.

In this one, it appears that people actually think that there was no connection between the Australian embassy bombing in Indonesia and the fact that PM John Howard lent his name to the effort in Iraq.

But it would be impossible for anyone to be that stupid, wouldn't it?

[FringeNC]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5947558/

Hard to believe that someone would draw the conclusion that the Australian Embassy bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia had anything to do with Australia, terrorism, or international affairs.

The link suggests that it was an Islamic terrorist group, Who'd a thunk it? I figured it was someone protesting the fact that the Crocodile Dundee Film Festival Library had so few recent additions and who otherwise just liked to blow sh*t up.




On another note, the GOP strategy is now to become so embarrassingly stupid that it would be impossible for a literate person to understand what they might possibly mean in a thread.

In this one, it appears that people actually think that there was no connection between the Australian embassy bombing in Indonesia and the fact that PM John Howard lent his name to the effort in Iraq.

But it would be impossible for anyone to be that stupid, wouldn't it?


Yeah, we couldn't do anything to piss of the jihadists. Maybe if we implement sharia and stop protecting Isreal from extinction, they will leave us alone.

[jettio]

Yeah, we couldn't do anything to piss of the jihadists. Maybe if we implement sharia and stop protecting Isreal from extinction, they will leave us alone.

:hmmm: :hmmm: I am not smart enough to see how your statement is at all contrary to anything that Kerry's sister said or I posted.

Reference the title of the thread and the naked stupidity of the pro-Bush posts thereon.

She answered a question and gave an opinion that expresses the obvious, and you GOP retards pile on as if the recent embassy bombing was unrelated to geo-politics and Iraq.

[Michael Michigan]

...and you GOP retards pile on as if the recent embassy bombing was unrelated to geo-politics and Iraq...

The new Kerry campaign slogan: Vote for me or you are a retard.

No wonder you guys suck at this.

[FringeNC]

:hmmm: :hmmm: I am not smart enough to see how your statement is at all contrary to anything that Kerry's sister said or I posted.

Reference the title of the thread and the naked stupidity of the pro-Bush posts thereon.

She answered a question and gave an opinion that expresses the obvious, and you GOP retards pile on as if the recent embassy bombing was unrelated to geo-politics and Iraq.

I wonder if during WWII, the Republican presidential candidate sent surrogates to Australia to warn voters about fighting with the U.S.?

And who the hell on here said terrorism has nothing to do with geo-politics. Your responses are either tautological or unintelligible.

[RINGLEADER]

:hmmm: :hmmm: I am not smart enough to see how your statement is at all contrary to anything that Kerry's sister said or I posted.

Reference the title of the thread and the naked stupidity of the pro-Bush posts thereon.

She answered a question and gave an opinion that expresses the obvious, and you GOP retards pile on as if the recent embassy bombing was unrelated to geo-politics and Iraq.


Expresses the obvious? That terrorists only attack when countries help us defeat them? Are you really that vacuous?

And if you're so proud with this position, then why all the anger about it being pointed out? Personally, I hope Kerry starts talking about this more (as he says he will) so his past views, votes and quotes can continue to be used against him.

[jettio]

Expresses the obvious? That terrorists only attack when countries help us defeat them? Are you really that vacuous?

And if you're so proud with this position, then why all the anger about it being pointed out? Personally, I hope Kerry starts talking about this more (as he says he will) so his past views, votes and quotes can continue to be used against him.

Whatever.

Please chroncile the history of terrorist attacks against Australia by radical Islamists.

What explanation have you for the Australian Embassy bombing? What about Madrid for that matter?

You quote a story from an australian link as if the statement is controversial, do you think anybody in Australia disagrees with what she said?

[WilliamTheIrish]

Hard to believe that someone would draw the conclusion that the Australian Embassy bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia had anything to do with Australia, terrorism, or international affairs

Hard to believe that anybody even remotely f*cking familiar with the bombing in Bali could believe it was related to the war in Iraq. Since it happened in Oct of 02.

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.


But then again, sometimes the smartest folk just have no f*cking concept of time.

[Michael Michigan]

Hard to believe that anybody even remotely f*cking familiar with the bombing in Bali could believe it was related to the war in Iraq. Since it happened in Oct of 02.




But then again, sometimes the smartest folk just have no f*cking concept of time.


You sir---are a retard.



;)

[WilliamTheIrish]

The other that kind of p!sses me off about incredibly flippant and excessively stupid statements like th one by Kerry's daughter:

It's OK for the Kerry campaign to basically say Australians are more at risk if George Bush is re-elected, but those same people have gran mal seizures if Cheney says Americans more at risk if Kerry is elected?

F'n idiots.

[WilliamTheIrish]

Oh wait. I just found out that the bombing in Bali was related to the war in iraq.

In addition to all the other fine inventions ( the suicide bomb belt) the muslims invented time travel.

[Patriot 21]

The other that kind of p!sses me off about incredibly flippant and excessively stupid statements like th one by Kerry's daughter:

It's OK for the Kerry campaign to basically say Australians are more at risk if George Bush is re-elected, but those same people have gran mal seizures if Cheney says Americans more at risk if Kerry is elected?

F'n idiots.

That is exactly what I was thinking as I read this piece.:shrug:

[OldTownChief]

It seems like all the women associated with Kerry are hurting what little was left of his chances.

[jettio]

The new Kerry campaign slogan: Vote for me or you are a retard.

No wonder you guys suck at this.


No my slogan is that you would have to be a standardless idiot to vote for Stooges..


No person with any standards at all for effective leadership would ratify such demonstrated incompetence, dishonesty, and arrogance.


Collection of idiots that screw-up everything, but have the most manipulative PR machine in history.

Were it not for those manipulators and the malleability of the stupid, there would be no doubt about Bush being sh*t-canned.

Make a case for him.

As many posts as there have been in this forum. I never saw one that made a case that he had demonstrated even bare competence.


Beyond making a speech after 9/11 thast he has since disregarded by his actions and inactions, what has he done right?