Kerry's Ill-Considered Rhetoric

Here is an excerpt from a John Kerry speech Wednesday:

The cost of the president's "go it alone" policy in Iraq is now $200 billion and counting. Two-hundred billion for Iraq? but they tell us we can't afford after-school programs for our children. Two-hundred billion dollars for Iraq, but they tell us we can't afford health care for our veterans. Two-hundred billion dollars for Iraq, but they tell us we can't afford to keep the 100,000 police officers we put on the streets during the 1990s.

Three hundred or more dead children in a Russian school, and Senator Kerry tells us we cannot afford to fight terrorism? Senator, we cannot afford not to fight terrorism. After school programs are not very useful when the children are dead.

Posted by Jeff at September 10, 2004 03:58 PM | Link Cosmos