24 September 2004

Toeing the Al-Sadr line

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While Kerry was relatively restrained in disputing Allawi’s upbeat portrayal, some of his aides suggested that the Iraqi leader was simply doing the bidding of the Bush administration, which helped arrange his appointment in June.

“The last thing you want to be seen as is a puppet of the United States, and you can almost see the hand underneath the shirt today moving the lips,” said Joe Lockhart, a senior Kerry adviser.

I guess that the famous Kerry campaign “nuance”, because Lockhart doesn’t say explicitly say that Allawi’s a Bush puppet.

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Like we have time for that!

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The government has no idea how many of the thousands of illegal aliens from terrorist-sponsoring states it has caught at the U.S. border and released back onto America’s streets were terrorists or had ties to terror groups.

The Department of Homeland Security doesn’t even know how many were released, much less how many were suspicious. This is one of the big failures of the Bush Administration, that it seems to consider the mere existence DHS sufficient and is unconcerned about what it actually does.

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But there's no illegal campaign coordination

The terrorists’ objective is to intimidate all countries allied with America. Make them bleed and tell them this is the price they pay for being a U.S. ally. The implication is obvious: Abandon America and buy your safety.

That is what the terrorists are saying. Why is the Kerry campaign saying the same thing?

Charles Krauthammer

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