- If there are any people in the Democratic Party leadership
who haven't been bought by the corporate globalists, they would insist
the party dump John Kerry now and choose instead, as the party's presidential
candidate, Dennis Kucinich or Howard Dean.
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- We predicted during the Democratic primaries that if
Kerry emerged as the party's contender, it was a signal that the corporate
masters have had it with George W. Bush. Either that message hasn't gotten
through to the corporate media, which is still giving Bush a free pass
while playing up Kerry's shortcomings, or perhaps we should have said the
corporate masters may have had it with Bush.
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- Whether Kerry is their boy or their fallback candidate,
either way, whether it's Kerry or Bush, very little will change. Bonesman
Kerry will just put a seemingly kinder and gentler face on the madness
and throw a few crumbs to Americans, while continuing the quest for empire.
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- Kerry surely knew he wanted to run for president when
he voted for the resolution Bush used to illegally invade Iraq. He unequivocally
parroted all Bush's lies about Iraq having chemical and biological weapons
and that it was attempting to develop nuclear weapons, despite briefings,
prior to his vote, by former chief UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter that
Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Did he also buy into the
insanity that the whole exercise was going to be a cakewalk and the Iraqi
people were going to greet their liberators with hugs and flowers or was
his fearful of being on the wrong side of history if the Bushies were correct?
Now Kerry wants us to believe that it wasn't a blank check he voted to
give Bush on October 11, 2002, but that it was his understanding that if
Saddam Hussein refused to turn over the WMD, which Ritter had told him
Saddam didn't have, Bush would obtain a UN resolution before sending in
the troops. Either Kerry is a liar or he is stupid, which makes him no
better than Bush.
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- With Iraq in ruins, deaths and casualties mounting on
all sides as the Iraqi intifada gains steam, what does Kerry, who served
in Vietnam and then turned on that illegal war, propose? Send in more troops,
get the UN involved and seek help from our allies (if we have any left),
instead of saying enough and proposing a way to end the occupation, bring
the troops home and turn the country over to the Iraqis.
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- Keeping the above in mind, where does Kerry stand on
Bush's "axis of evil?" He said on the Senate floor, "Every
nation has the right to act preemptively if it faces an imminent and grave
threat." How many more "imminent and grave" threats does
he see?
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- The militarization of space doesn't seem to bother Kerry,
either. In a May 2, 2001, statement on the Senate floor, he supported Bush's
missile defense initiative and called for amending the 1997 ABM Treaty
Demarcation agreements that prohibit the development and testing of systems
that could shoot down ICBMs. Are space wars what we would have to look
forward to with Kerry, too? Former astronaut Ed Mitchell points out in
the documentary, "Arsenal of Hypocrisy," that if a weapon the
size of the Apollo rocket that carried him to the moon were exploded in
space, it would create such a band of debris circling the earth that it
would end space exploration for all time.
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- Kerry voted for the dastardly USA PATRIOT Act, which
he now says Attorney General John Ashcroft has abused, but he's big on
"homeland security" and he buys into the bogus "war on terror."
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- Palestinians will get no better treatment from a Kerry
White House than they have from the Bush. The senator from Massachussetts
has already pledged his fealty to the murderous and certifiably insane
Zionists in control of Israel. In a February 17 article that appeared in
CounterPunch, Kerry wrote that "the cause of Israel must be the cause
of America." On his campaign website, it is stated, "John Kerry
believes that history and our own best interests demand that the United
States maintain a steady policy of friendship and support for Israel.
As the only true democracy in the Middle East, Israel is our most important
ally, and a critical partner in the quest for peace and security in this
troubled region. America's longstanding commitment to Israel's independence
and survival must never waver."
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- Kerry is no friend of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez,
either. In his March 19 Statement on Venezuela, Kerry said, "Throughout
his time in office, President Chavez has repeatedly undermined democratic
institutions by using extra-legal means, including politically motivated
incarcerations, to consolidate power. In fact, his close relationship
with Fidel Castro has raised serious questions about his commitment to
leading a truly democratic government.
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- "Moreover, President Chavez's policies have been
detrimental to our interests and those of his neighbors. He has compromised
efforts to eradicate drug cultivation by allowing Venezuela to become a
haven for narco-terrorists, and sowed instability in the region by supporting
anti-government insurgents in Colombia."
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- Nor does Kerry propose taking back the store from the
corporations. He just wants to tax them a little more, as if most of them
were paying anything now.
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- And these are just a few of Kerry's negatives.
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- Yes, Kerry will throw a few crumbs to the rabble to keep
them at bay, such as calling for the rollback of the Bush tax cuts for
the rich, not seeking to privatize Social Security, attempting to provide
heath care for the uninsured, trying to restore the 3 million jobs lost
by Bush to date. Note: that's all in the conditional tense.
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- The corporate globalists and their puppets in the European
Union, the African Union, and the coming American (Free Trade Association
of the Americas) and Asian unions might sleep a little better at night
with loose cannon Bush retired to his Crawford, Texas, funny farm and Kerry
in the White House. But beneath the less nasty looking surface, it will
be business as usual. That is if they are truly out to replace Bush and
get that message across to their media hacks and the folks who control
the computerized voting equipment.
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- Ironically, Kerry, the third Catholic to seek the presidency,
is now facing the wrath of his own church. While John F. Kennedy had to
overcome the "he'll be run by the pope" notion, US Catholic bishops
are insisting the pro-choice Kerry be run by the pope when it comes to
matters of abortion, gay marriage (Kerry opposes, but supports civil unions)
and stem cell research. The bishops also are upset with Kerry's vote against
a bill that makes it a crime to harm a fetus during an assault on a woman.
In February, Archbishop Raymond Burke of St. Louis told Kerry not to take
communion if he attended mass there. If Kerry is the choice of the corporate
globalists, can they get the church to back off? In what could be another
irony, the globalists could remind the bishops that the constitution forbids
religious tests for public office and that they would be jeopardizing the
church's tax exempt status should they instruct their parishioners to vote
against Kerry.
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- But if the Anybody-But-Bush (ABB) crowd isn't so eager
to see George W. gone that they are willing to replace one Bonesman and
globalist with another, there is still time before the confirmation partyóa.k.a.,
the Democratic Nation Conventionógets under way in Boston to demand
that the party dump Kerry in favor of someone who will stand up for the
people and the constitution.
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- The best choices to replace Kerry would be Kucinich or
Dean, despite the number the corporate media did on both. Don't put your
hopes on Kucinich, though. The former boy mayor of Cleveland is anathema
to the corporate globalists. Kucinich had to be painted as a failure and
some fringe lefty for having temporarily sacrificed his political career
when he stood up to Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company (CEI)ówhich
has since been merged into FirstEnergy Corp, now accused of causing last
year's massive power outageówhen it tried to take over Cleveland's
municipal electric system.
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- So that leaves Howard Dean, who doesn't exactly make
the globalists happy, either. When Dean was riding high in the polls, he
had to be cut down. Thusly, the false issue of "electability"
was raised. After all, how could a well-educated achiever and the former
governor of a small state who, despite no requirement to do so, balanced
the budget 11 times be equipped to step on the world stage? Only an uneducated
non-achiever, hard-drinking party animal, who deserted his military obligation,
and the former governor of a large state, who got his jollies signing death
warrants and handing the treasury away to his buddies could do that.
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- Surely, even the ABB crowd has to see that either man
is superior to Kerry, the darling of the globalist Democratic Leadership
Council who would have him move further to the right than he has.
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