The last couple of days have been a turning point for the Kerry campaign. After the President used the puppet Leader of the New Iraq to further his lies on what is really happening on the ground, Kerry has issued a quick response to everything the President has said this week.
The following ad has a portion of the press conference from Thursday in the White House Rose Garden. You remember, the one where the president says:
“I saw a poll that said the right-track/wrong-track is better in Iraq than here in America.”
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This is what the Election is about:
The invasion of Iraq was a profound diversion from the battle against our greatest enemy Al Qaeda — which killed more than three thousand people on 9/11 and which still plots our destruction today. And there’s just no question about it: the President’s misjudgment, miscalculation and mismanagement of the war in Iraq all make the war on terror harder to win. Iraq is now what it was not before the war a haven for terrorists. George Bush made Saddam Hussein the priority. I would have made Osama bin Laden the priority. As president, I will finish the job in Iraq and refocus our energies on the real war on terror.
I will wage this war relentlessly with a single-minded determination: to capture or kill the terrorists, crush their movement and free the world from fear. To destroy our enemy, we have to know our enemy. We have to understand that we are facing a radical fundamentalist movement with global reach and a very specific plan. They are not just out to kill us for the sake of killing us. They want to provoke a conflict that will radicalize the people of the Muslim world, turning them against the United States and the West. And they hope to transform that anger into a force that will topple the region’s governments and pave the way for a new empire, an oppressive, fundamentalist superstate stretching across a vast area from Europe to Africa, from the Middle East to Central Asia.
– John Kerry