In Time Magazine’s July 19 issue, on page 31, John Kerry is seen using an Apple PowerBook (15″ TiBook, it looks like). The photo, taken by Diana Walker, is captioned “From his study in the family’s Pittsburgh, PA, home, Kerry phones Edwards to officially invite the North Carolina Senator to be his running mate.” This comes on the heels of the report, “Vice President Dick Cheney a confirmed Apple iPod user” and, of course we all know that, at least back in 1998 when the photo of Bush was snapped, President Bush uses a PowerBook, too. That just leaves V.P. candidate John Edwards’ choice of platform in question.
MacDailyNews Take: You’d think that with Apple CEO Steve Jobs advising John Kerry and with Al Gore on Apple’s Board of Directors, Steve could figure out a way to get Kerry a new 17″ PowerBook – at least for photo ops.
Update: Updated PowerBook model speculation as per Seahawk’s post below.
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Kerry said the intelligence needs to be improved so that the word of a U.S. president �is good enough for people across the world again.�
The four-term Massachusetts senator said that nearly three years after the Sept. 11 attacks, �this president has not taken action sufficient to fix the intelligence problems that have plagued us.�
This from a candidate who proposed and voted to cut $1 billion from intelligence in 1994, one year after the first World Trade Center attack. Specifically, he proposed cutting that $1 billion from the budgets of the National Foreign Intelligence Program and from Tactical Intelligence, while freezing their budgets. (The amendment was soundly defeated.) Kerry sponsored a 1995 bill to trim intelligence spending by $1.5 billion over five years. A candidate who, back in his first unsuccessful run for Congress in 1970, promised to �almost eliminate CIA activity� if elected. Who asked, in 1997, �Now that [Cold War] struggle is over, why is it that our vast intelligence apparatus continues to grow?�
Republicans also recall that in 1995, Kerry voted to slash FBI funding by $80 million. �Kohl, D-Wis., amendment to add $80 million for social crime prevention programs and offset the cost by cutting FBI funding by an equal amount.� (H.R. 2076, CQ Vote #480: Adopted 49-41: R 9-40; D 40-1, 9/29/95, Kerry Voted Yea)
And recall, just recently, from Reuters: �Democratic candidate John Kerry, whose campaign demanded to know on Wednesday whether President Bush read a key Iraq intelligence assessment, did not read the document himself before voting to give Bush the authority to go to war, aides acknowledged.�
KERRY ON PREEMPTION, THEN AND NOW
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Friday he would be willing to launch a pre-emptive strike against terrorists if he had adequate intelligence of a threat.
“Am I prepared as president to go get them before they get us if we locate them and have the sufficient intelligence? You bet I am,” he said at a news conference at his Washington headquarters.
The Boston Globe, February 28: �Sen. John Kerry said President Bush’s policy of �unilateral preemption� had failed to win the war on terror and only fueled anti-American anger worldwide.�
Kerry�s speech before the Council on Foreign Relations last December: �We have a President who has developed and exalted a strategy of war � unilateral; pre-emptive; and in my view, profoundly threatening to America�s place in the world and the safety and prosperity of our own society.�
Kerry on �Meet the Press� last December: �I did not buy into preemption � I thought that was wrong.� The doctrine of preemption the �most arrogant, inept, reckless and ideological foreign policy� in modern history.
KERRY: I’LL BE BETTER ON IRAQ, BUT I CAN’T SAY HOW
Kerry’s interview with The Wall Street Journal on Iraq has all kinds of specifics. Excerpts:
“The key at this point is to have a stable, nonfailed state that is moving towards democracy and security sufficient for the government to stand on its own. And for its own forces to stand up for that government. I have a plan for how we can get there. I’m not going to negotiate my plan in the newspapers or publicly.”
“You have to measure the level of stability. And you have to measure the outlook for the stability to hold. You can’t do that until that moment arrives. I’m not going to give you a July prediction about those standards.”
WSJ: If you become president, do you think that by the end of your first term, that troops will be out of Iraq?
KERRY: “I certainly can’t tell you numbers. But I can tell you this. At the end of my first term, I would consider it a failure of my diplomacy if we haven’t reduced the number significantly.”
WSJ: I understand you have a difference with the president on how do we get there. Give us more of a vision of what the “there” is? How will we know when we’ve reached that point?
KERRY: “I’ll tell you.”
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KERRY ON PREEMPTION, THEN AND NOW
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Friday he would be willing to launch a pre-emptive strike against terrorists if he had adequate intelligence of a threat. “Am I prepared as president to go get them before they get us if we locate them and have the sufficient intelligence? You bet I am,” he said at a news conference at his Washington headquarters.
The Boston Globe, February 28: �Sen. John Kerry said President Bush’s policy of �unilateral preemption� had failed to win the war on terror and only fueled anti-American anger worldwide.�
Kerry�s speech before the Council on Foreign Relations last December: �We have a President who has developed and exalted a strategy of war � unilateral; pre-emptive; and in my view, profoundly threatening to America�s place in the world and the safety and prosperity of our own society.�
Kerry on �Meet the Press� last December: �I did not buy into preemption � I thought that was wrong.� The doctrine of preemption the �most arrogant, inept, reckless and ideological foreign policy� in modern history.
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While Bushies would like you to see this as a flip-flop, I don’t necessarily see a contradiction here. Kerry specifically denounces UNILATERAL preemption. More importantly: would he lie, exaggerate, or rely on suspect intelligence to make a preemptive strike against a sovereign foreign nation? Very,very doubtful. Would that prevent him from making a preemptive strike against a terrorist cell? Not at all, just as it didn’t prevent the Clinton administration (with internation help) from foiling the millenium bomb plot. Lastly, intelligent, open-minded people constantly reevaluate policies and positions based on new information and circumstances, so if he changes his stance periodically, I think that is a character strength, not flaw.
My personal opinion on preemption: If it is ok to make a first strike “just in case” someone might be planning to strike you, this gives every other country the ok to strike us at any time. The US has been the most militaristically meddling and bullying country since the end of WWII, and Bush has not been shy about identifying possible targets.
�No matter what your political persuasion this is a very sobering reminder. From what I can tell this information appears to be factual. It makes it worth the read. —– You have to read the catalogue of events in this brief piece. Then, ask yourself how anyone can take the position that all we have to do is bring our troops home from Iraq, sit back, ������������������re-set the snooze alarm, go back to sleep, and no one will ever bother us again.
�In case you missed it, World War III began in November 1979…that alarm has been ringing for years.
U.S. Navy Captain Phil Ouimette is the Executive Officer at Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida. Here is a copy of the speech he gave last month. It is an accurate account of why we are in so much trouble today and why this action is so necessary.
�AMERICA NEEDS TO WAKE UP!
That’s what we think we heard on the 11th of September 2001 (When more than 3,000 Americans were killed -AD) and maybe it was, but I think it should have been “Get Out of Bed!” In
fact, I think the alarm clock has been buzzing since 1979 and we have continued to hit the snooze button and roll over for a few more minutes of peaceful sleep since then.
It was a cool fall day in November 1979 in a country going through a religious and political upheaval when a group of
Iranian students attacked and seized the American Embassy in Tehran. This seizure was an outright attack on American soil it was an attack that held the world’s most powerful country hostage and paralyzed a Presidency. The attack on this sovereign U. S. embassy set the stage for events to follow for the next 23 years.
America was still reeling from the aftermath of the Vietnam experience and had a serious threat from the Soviet Union when then, President Carter, had to do some thing. He chose to conduct a clandestine raid in the desert. The ill-fated mission ended in ruin, but stood as a symbol of America’s inability to deal with terrorism.
America’s military had been decimated and downsized/right sized since the end of the Vietnam War. A poorly trained, poorly equipped and poorly organized military was called on to execute a complex mission that was doomed from the start.
Shortly after the Tehran experience, Americans began to be kidnapped and killed throughout the Middle East. America could do little to protect her citizens living and working abroad. The attacks against US soil continued.
In April of 1983 a large vehicle packed with high explosives was driven into the US Embassy compound in Beirut. When it explodes, it kills 63 people. The alarm went off again and America hit the Snooze Button once more.
Then just six short months later a large truck heavily laden down with over 2500 pounds of TNT smashed through the main gate of the US Marine Corps headquarters in Beirut and 241 US servicemen are killed. America mourns her dead and hit the Snooze Button once more.
Two months later in December 1983, another truck loaded with explosives is driven into the US Embassy in Kuwait, and America continues her slumber.
The following year, in September 1984, another van was driven into the gates of the US Embassy in Beirut and America slept.
Soon the terrorism spreads to Europe. In April 1985 a bomb explodes in a restaurant frequented by US soldiers in Madrid.
Then in August a Volkswagen loaded with explosives is driven into the main gate of the US Air Force Base at Rhein-Main, 22 are killed and the snooze alarm is buzzing louder and louder as US interests are continually attacked.
Fifty-nine days later a cruise ship, the Achille Lauro is hijacked and we watched as an American in a wheelchair is singled out of the passenger list and executed.
The terrorists then shift their tactics to bombing civilian airliners when they bomb TWA Flight 840 in April of 1986 that killed 4 and the most tragic bombing, Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, killing 259.
Clinton treated these terrorist acts as crimes; in fact we are still trying to bring these people to trial. These are acts of war.
The wake up alarm is getting louder and louder. The terrorists decide to bring the fight to America. In January 1993, two CIA agents are shot and killed as they enter CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
The following month, February 1993, a group of terrorists are arrested after a rented van packed with explosives is driven into the underground parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City. Six people are killed and over 1000 are injured. Still this is a crime and not an act of war?
The Snooze alarm is depressed again. Then in November 1995 a car bomb explodes at a US military complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia killing seven service men and women.
A few months later in June of 1996, another truck bomb explodes only 35 yards from the US military compound in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. It destroys the Khobar Towers, a US Air Force barracks, killing 19 and injuring over 500. The terrorists are getting braver and smarter as they see that America does not respond decisively.
They move to coordinate their attacks in a simultaneous attack on two US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. These attacks were planned with precision. They kill 224. America responds with cruise missile attacks and goes back to sleep.
The USS Cole was docked in the port of Aden, Yemen for refueling on 12 October 2000, when a small craft pulled along side the ship and exploded killing 17 US Navy Sailors.
Attacking a US War Ship is an act of war, but we sent the FBI to investigate the crime and went back to sleep.
And of course you know the events of 11 September 2001. Most Americans think this was the first attack against US soil or in America. How wrong they are. America has been under a constant attack since 1979 and we chose to hit the snooze alarm and roll over and go back to sleep.
In the news lately we have seen lots of finger pointing from every high officials in government over what they knew and what they didn’t know. But if you’ve read the papers and paid a little attention I think you can see exactly what they knew. You don’t have to be in the FBI or CIA or on the National Security Council to see the pattern that has been developing since1979.
The President is right on when he says we are engaged in a war. I think we have been in a war for the past 23 years and it will continue until we as a people decide enough is enough.
America needs to “Get out of Bed” and act decisively now. America has been changed forever. We have to be ready to pay the price and make the sacrifice to ensure our way of life continues. We cannot afford to keep hitting the snooze button again and again and roll over and go back to sleep.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Yamamoto said “…it seems all we have done is awakened a sleeping giant.” This is the message we need to disseminate to terrorists around the world.
�Support Our Troops and support President Bush for having the courage, political or militarily, to address what so many who preceded him didn’t have the backbone to do both Democrat and Republican. This is not a political thing to be hashed over in an election year this is an AMERICAN thing. This is about our Freedom and the Freedom of our children in years to come.
Please forward this to as many people as you can especially to the young people and all those who dozed off in history class and who seem quick to protest such a necessary military action.
To whomever posted as “On Preemption”
Kerry did a MAJOR flip flop on this issue and everyone but the blind see it. The fact that you imply that Kerry’s born-again preemption policy is different because it is not “unilateral” is proof of this blindness. Bush had a coalition of over 40 countries. The term “unilateral” means ONE country. There is a difference between 1 and 40+. Failing to understand this basic arithmetic disqualifies you, in my mind, as a thinking person who’s views should be considered as serious. They clearly are not.
-B
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Still thinking about Kerry not voting to fund our troops with that 87 billion … said something like he voted for it first, then voted against it, then wanted to send a message about international cooperation, bla bla bla. When all that talk is done, out guys dont even have bullet proof vests, let alone 17inch aluminum Mac powerbooks
Thats not all true. I am a soilder serving in Iraq as we speak and I am typing on a 15inch Aluminum PowerBook. Just thought I’d throw that out. O and by the way Im voting for Kerry.
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