Another “Kerry Was Right” Moment: Investigation Finds Weak Security

[kerrygoddess]

Another “Kerry Was Right” Moment: Federal Investigation Finds Weak Security By Land and By Sea
March 28th, 2006 @ 12:03 am

Where’s the security? MSNBC reports that a new report by the Government Accountability Office shows that Department of Homeland Security is “two years behind schedule in installing radiation monitors in ports and not likely to have them all done, even by 2009.”

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Eight months ago John Kerry called for an investigation into port security in order to “fix gaping holes in the security of America’s ports.” Finding from that report were released on March 16.

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Talk about massive failures in keeping our nation secure! Voters in the ‘04 election that bought into the Bush meme that they were the national security experts, should have listened to John Kerry, who campaigned on port security and stated over and over again that the Bush adminstration had failed to protect our nation’s ports and other entry points. We hate to have to drive the point home over and over again, but the Bush adminstration has been proven once again to be miserable failures and John Kerry was right in ‘04 and subsequently since in speaking out on this issue.

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[Kagemusha]

1. Jon Stewart had footage of some retail organization tonight...

Fighting port security on the grounds it'd slow down commerce and saying we should just focus on the containers we know to be suspicious or dangerous.

Jon then made much fun about our ignorance about precisely which containers those are. It's not like they're labeled "Terrorist Supplies" (he used a much sillier example)...

[kerrygoddess]

2. Good for him!

I'm glad he's talking about it. More people need to.

[rodeodance]

3. that was funny.

[NVMojo]

4. He was right and didn't look stupid when he said it. Unlike Chimp.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

5. do you think Kerry will ever run for president again?

I voted for him before and would do it again but I doubt his party will offer the chance... He's hammering the beast well enough these days but seems to be raising funds for other candidates.

All that aside, this GAO report is particularly damning to the current administration. I did a thread on it last night and this one deserves a kick.

[karynnj]

6. Right now the issue is 2006

As you said, Kerry is raising funds for many candidates running in 2006, rather than for himself. He is also campaigned for several 2005 candidates and is now campaigning for 2006 candidates. He has spoken out often and well on mistakes of the Bush administration. He was also among the first to offer a plan that leads to withdrawal from Iraq.

All these actions are the best he can do to help the Democrats in 2006. These actions are also the best he could do to be competitive in 2008. It is great for the party that these 2 goals are not in conflict - having any competent politician, which Kerry is, motivated to work hard for 2006 is a good thing. Kerry is clearly not a favorite to win in 2008. Some time in 2007, he will have to choose whether he wants to run for the Presidency, the Senate or nothing.

As to the party offering him the chance to run, it won't happen that way. Kerry's winning the nomination in 2004 was his (and his team's) victory. In 2008, he will not have virtually any Washington insiders on his side (though he had few in 2004) and he wasn't a media favorite in 2004 and won't be in 2008.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

7. I lived in MA for a while

He'll win his Senate seat as long as he wants and maybe even conservatives in other states are sick enough of the neo-Nazis to put him in the drivers seat but I doubt it... the reich-wingers here in AL are hard-core reasonless fools with extremely closed minds.

[karynnj]

8. If the Democrats take Alabama it would be a landslide

so that's not the best guide. It must have been culture shock to go from Ma to AL.

[kerrygoddess]

9. Many of us certainly hope so

His focus right now is on helping others to win in 06, which is a good thing.

[wisteria]

10. Senator Kerry has been correct on so much he spoke about during

the election that I have lost count.

[gratuitous]

11. Kerry was right? Nonsense, it was Bush that was right

The Republicans warned me all through 2004 that if I voted for Kerry, I was voting for greater security risks, less inspection at the ports, and more peril for the American people. They said that voting for Kerry would lead to civil war in Iraq, a nuclear North Korea, more pollution, higher gas prices, and a host of other horrible events. Well, I sure enough did vote for Kerry, and all the dire predictions of the GOP have come true, in spades.

So, what do you have to say now, you libruls?

[blm]

12. HAHAHA....good turnaround. ;)

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[karynnj]

13. Cute