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For those of you not quite astute enough to notice these things, (J/K) here's another flip-flop from the esteemed DNC candidate:

Maginot Kerry Still Fighting The Wrong War
Charles R. Smith
Thursday, Aug. 19, 2004
John Kerry is still fighting the Cold War. The Democrat candidate is apparently lost in the jungles of Vietnam, reliving his youthful adventures of non-existent patrols into Cambodia and shooting wounded enemy soldiers in the back.


On August 18th, Kerry stated before the Veterans of Foreign Wars that he opposed the re-deployment of U.S. troops from Asia and Europe back to America to defend the U.S. homeland.

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Kerry's reasoning is based on Cold War logic. He cited the proposed withdrawal of 12,000 soldiers from South Korea as sending "the wrong signal" to Pyongyang. He also noted that Korea was perhaps the most dangerous location in the world today.

Of course, true to his absent-minded Senator character, on August 1st, Kerry told George Stephanopoulos that he would "significantly change the deployment of troops" in places like "the Korean peninsula" and in "Europe". Kerry pledged a "significant enormous reduction" in U.S. troops stationed abroad.

Since his recent flip-flop on the status of the U.S. military, it is clear that Kerry is having flash-backs, perhaps due to PMS or "Political Motivation Syndrome."

However, flip-flops and "significant enormous" badly worded English aside, the Kerry critique of reducing U.S. troop levels to 25,000 in South Korea shows that the Senator is fighting the wrong war. Kerry is stuck in a Maginot Line mentality with his French allies.

Missile Threat

The threat in Korea is not the 1.2 million man North Korean Army - as if 37,000 U.S. troops would make a difference against a DPRK attack. The real threat is North Korean missiles tipped with nuclear and chemical weapons.

To that Kerry's answer is to cancel the U.S. national missile defense. Kerry would continue "research" but leave America and her allies vulnerable to Kim Jung Il and his newfound WMD on missiles.

Kerry also pledged that he would make absolutely certain that, as President, his decisions would be based on credible intelligence. Yet, Senator Kerry has a long history of making national security decisions on flawed intelligence that he never questioned.

In the case of North Korea, nukes and missiles, Kerry bought the politically motivated and thoroughly untrue CIA report generated by the Clinton administration that the DPRK could not deploy a missile capable of striking the U.S.

The CIA report supplied in 1998 by the Clinton administration to Kerry estimated that North Korea would require 10-15 years to develop a missile capable of delivering a chemical, biological, or nuclear warhead.


On May 13, 1998 John Kerry spoke in opposition to the American Missile Protection Act of 1998, a proposal to build a national defense against long-range ballistic missiles.

"The simple truth, Mr. President, is that only Russia and China have such missiles, and despite the fact that some rogue nations such as North Korea have been working to develop more advanced ballistic missiles, our intelligence and military leaders do not expect those threats to materialize for a decade or more," stated Kerry.


"The vote today is about whether - at a time before a real ballistic missile threat from sources other than Russia and China exists, at a time before we perfect the anti-missile technology on which we have been energetically working for years so that we know it is ready to be deployed-we will make a national commitment of scores of billions of dollars to field the nonexistent system against nonexistent threats," said Kerry.

"The urgency that the bill's proponents are voicing is a false urgency, Mr. President. I hope the Senate will look at this carefully and will choose the prudent course by rejecting the bill before us," concluded Kerry on the Senate floor.

Reality vs. Fiction

In contrast to the Senator's dead-certain statement, a 1998 report generated by Don Rumsfeld concluded that:

"There is evidence that North Korea is working hard on the Taep'o-dong 2 (TD-2) ballistic missile. The status of the system's development cannot be determined precisely. Nevertheless, the ballistic missile test infrastructure in North Korea is well developed. Once the system is assessed to be ready, a test flight could be conducted within six months of a decision to do so."

In addition, the Rumsfeld committee concluded that, "light-weight variations of the TD-2 could fly as far as 10,000 km, placing at risk western U.S. territory in an arc extending northwest from Phoenix, Arizona, to Madison, Wisconsin."

Of course, the leader of North Korea, Kim Jung Il, was working to a different timetable than the Senator from Massachusetts. John Kerry's prediction of "a decade or more" turned out to be off by nine years and nine months.

Three months after Kerry spoke, on August 31 1998, North Korea launched the Taepodong I ballistic missile. The "nonexistent" North Korean missile flew over Japan and dropped a dummy nuclear warhead off the U.S. coast.

The North Korean missile did more than simply make John Kerry look like a fool. It also discredited the phony CIA report to our allies. Japan noted that U.S. satellite photos should have been able to detect the Taepodong launch in advance. Tokyo, however, was not privy to the photos because of the Clinton administration political lie to cover-up the WMD effort in North Korea.

In response, Japan decided to orbit its own intelligence satellites so it would not have to depend on unreliable allies such as Washington. Japan has since put several such satellites into orbit at great expense. Trenches and barbwire do not stop ballistic missiles. Today, instead of addressing the current situation with 21st century solutions, John Kerry proposes to solve the Korean crisis with World War I tactics.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/8/19/133155.shtml