Kerry has all the answers

Just hours before attending an all-star celebrity fundraising concert in New York, Dem presidential candidate John Kerry revealed how he has been too busy for a real-time national security briefing.

"I just haven\'t had time," Kerry explained in an interview.

Kerry made the startling comments on CNN\'s LARRY KING LIVE Thursday night.

KING: News of the day, Tom Ridge warned today about al Qaeda plans of a large-scale attack on the United States. Didn\'t increase the -- you see any politics in this? What\'s your reaction?

KERRY: Well, I haven\'t been briefed yet, Larry. They have offered to brief me. I just haven\'t had time.

And this guy is better than Bush?!?

Tom Ridge and the Bush Administration put out yet another vague, uncertain warning to keep americans nervous, and Kerry is supposed to change his campaign travel plans within 12 hours to appear for a briefing?  Bush could have him yo-yo ing across the country all year long if he went along with that.  It\'s all BS anyway, and he knows it.  

The best they can say is al-Qaida wants "to do something during this time period of the elections."  WTF does that mean?  The whole system of these terror alerts is completely screwed up anyway.  I don\'t see why we need any public announcements at all.

Don\'t start crying we should have been warned when the next attack happens.  

Anyway, I don\'t let announcements like that ruin my day... I just go about my business as usual.  Any American that gets nervous over these announcements needs therapy.

Besides if the terror level is higher and someone knows, this would be more adapt for them to maybe report something suspicous rather than just dismissing it. Its a good thing, but know one is forcing you to worry that is your own decision.

[GmanJoe]

When something goes KA-BOOM in the US, that\'s when you know our security has failed.

Warnings don\'t help people do anything.

Hey dude, don\'t forget, we could panic. That\'s what we\'ll do when something actually does happen, like we did last time.

Basically, these terror warnings say "Hey, be prepared to panic. Something might happen within the next 4 months. Something bad. Be on your toes." Seriously, what are we supposed to do with that?

See Yuz.

[Titan]

What if all the warnings in the past were true and the attacks were prevented by a) nabbing terrorists that we\'re going to do it, b) killing them oversees in a fight (like Iraq or something), c) driving them away because now the terrorists realize that the public knows and will be near impossible to execute.

[Living-In-Clip]

Originally posted by Titan
What if all the warnings in the past were true and the attacks were prevented by a) nabbing terrorists that we\'re going to do it, b) killing them oversees in a fight (like Iraq or something), c) driving them away because now the terrorists realize that the public knows and will be near impossible to execute.

Yeah, because it would be impossible to execute an attack with the vague Bush Adminstration warnings.

:rolleyes:

Have any of you honestly done anything different because of a warning?

A warning won\'t stop people from dying. It won\'t do anything except give the gov a reason to say.

"Ha! told you so!"

Doesn\'t matter in this case, the gov is damned if they do and damned if they don\'t.

I\'m guessing whenever the security level rises it\'s because they received a piece of credible information suggesting an attack may occur soon.  Maybe this warning displayed all over the news scares off the terrorists, who really knows?

Remember when that nutjob tried to light his shoe on fire on a plane because he filled the sole with explosive material soon after 9/11?  Everyday cavilians on the plane bumrushed him and subdued him on the ground till they landed.  This was on the news over & over...  Possibly Joe Terrorist saw that and decided to lay low on the plane hijackings for a while.

Fact of the matter is if an explosion did happen and there was no warning, people would still point fingers at the government.  What can you do?

[GmanJoe]

Originally posted by Living-In-Clip
Yeah, because it would be impossible to execute an attack with the vague Bush Adminstration warnings.

:rolleyes:

Uh...obviously. If the Administration knew that the terrorists were going to blow up a Miami club and announced exactly where and when, OBVIOUSLY the terrorists will pick another target.

Originally posted by THX


Remember when that nutjob tried to light his shoe on fire on a plane because he filled the sole with explosive material soon after 9/11?  Everyday cavilians on the plane bumrushed him and subdued him on the ground till they landed.  This was on the news over & over...  Possibly Joe Terrorist saw that and decided to lay low on the plane hijackings for a while.

He was turned away from entering the plane twice. Eventually, they let him on. If you recall, witnesses said he looked quite the creep and everyone was creeped out by him. Now let\'s say he was never let on the plane and he decided to sue the airlines for descrimination based soley on his looks?

Sucks, eh? It could happen.

It\'s so easy to use one system (the justice system) against another system (security).

[Titan]

Originally posted by Deadly Hamster
Have any of you honestly done anything different because of a warning?

I keep a roll of duct tape on me at all times j/k

John Kerry walks into a bar. The bartender says, hey, John, why the long face.

[Living-In-Clip]

You know, Kerry may not be the greatest choice in the world (though I am confident that Edwards would be a great VP or even President), but he is certainly better than our current dim-witted President.

Make your jokes, but come November we may have a new President and you can all whine about how he is screwing up. It won\'t matter, just like it has not mattered when us Bush haters have went on our little rants.



As for the homeland security, I honestly don\'t believe these terror alerts amount to anything. They are so vague it is pathetic.  Not to mention you can almost time when they are goin\' to come in. It is just enough to keep the American people in a panic and keep the American people on Bush\'s side and his homeland security (which is a joke - did I mention that?).  

Fact is, it took years to plan the attack that we suffered on 9/11. Do you honestly think that Osama dn his croonie\'s could come up with another huge scheme in such a short time? Espically if they are on the run.