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Kerry `will tell . . . the truth'

analysis by Roger Wm. Hughes

The ‘George W. Bush is a liar’ machine came to Iowa yesterday – the state where he finished second in the caucuses last January. It is clear that Sen. John Edwards’ job is to convey a credibility gap between Sen. John Kerry and Bush. This was the first time that Edwards was solo since he was chosen to be V. P.

As Edwards launched into his criticism of Bush at the Des Moines stop, one of the signature lines was: Kerry ‘will tell … the truth.’

"What we need in the White House is somebody who has the strength, courage and leadership to take responsibility and be accountable not only for what's good, but for what's bad," Edwards said. "That's the kind of president John Kerry will be."

The Democrats and liberal media have fixated on the need for President Bush to apologize for something he has done wrong. Liberals have a deep-rooted belief in the need for collective cathartic behavior. It continues to be one of the dividing themes of this presidential election.

Conservatives tend to believe in moral certitude and evil; and liberals tend to believe in psychological therapy and the perfectibility of man. So, the media and Democrats have a fixation on the need for President Bush to apologize.

While Edwards states that Kerry will always tell the truth, it is clear that Kerry has a very checkered past in doing so. Besides voting on almost every side of every issue, Kerry seems to have a collective amnesia when it comes to his conflicting actions and statements.

The most notable amnesia seems to concern a question of whether he was present in 1971 when his organization, Veterans Against the Vietnam War, discussed killing U. S. senators under the code name Phoenix Project. Kerry stated flat out that he was not at the Kansas City meeting where this was discussed. He stated that he had resigned earlier from the group. Only after FBI records were produced did he admit that he was at the Kansas City meeting.

Kerry further has stated that he wasn’t present when the assassinations were discussed. However, there is a witness who says Kerry was present in the discussion. This witness holds to his statement, despite being threatened by Kerry supporters to change his story. While the veracity of this rests upon he-said/he-said, other cases of deception are more direct.

Kerry published an ad with a photograph that inferred that all his swift boat "buddies" pictured supported him. Therefore, because he served in Vietnam he was capable of defending America from terrorists. However, the fact is that 11 of the 19 men pictured have since signed a letter saying that Kerry is unfit to be Commander in Chief. Only two of the 19 men in that photograph actually support Kerry.

Despite this discrepancy, Edwards spent his 13-minute speech trumpeting Kerry's war record in Vietnam and almost 20 years in the Senate. Veracity seems to be a casualty that is easily acceptable as long as it fits promoting the values and vision for America that the Kerry/Edwards team believes in.

NOW: Block judges

The National Organization of Women is raising money in order for Sen. Minority Leader Tom Daschle to filibuster whenever it is needed to block the appointment of federal judges. NOW is dedicated to the most liberal forms of abortion possible.

NOW tells its supporters, "We must take on anti-abortion zealots state-by-state." Daschle's home state of South Dakota nearly outlawed abortion earlier this year.

Presidential debates

The Commission on Presidential Debates has proposed limiting two of the three debates by topic. The first meeting on Sept. 30 at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Fla., will deal with domestic policy. The third on Oct. 13, on the subject of foreign affairs, is scheduled to be held at Arizona State University in Tempe.

The second forum on Oct. 8 would be a town hall-style format at Washington University in St. Louis where undecided voters question the candidates on any issue.

The commission proposed a single debate between the vice presidential nominees on Oct. 5 at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, to cover the full range of issues.

Blacks pan Kerry ads

The LA Times reports that Capitol Hill Black legislators are panning Kerry’s $2 million grab to win over Black voters:

Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) called the ads "very disappointing." Rep. Gregory W. Meeks (D-N.Y.) termed them "horrible." Allison Dobson, a Kerry spokeswoman, said the campaign would consider altering the ads, some of which began airing Wednesday. "It's a dynamic process," she said. "There could be … changes."

The article states that 25 members of the Black Caucus gave a thumbs down review to the ads.

NAACP’s naked partisan

Rod Paige, the nation's first black education secretary, took exception to Julian Bond’s speech accusing Black Republicans as being "Uncle Toms."

Paige also included NAACP leader Kweisi Mfume for what he called "hateful and untruthful rhetoric about Republicans and President Bush." Bond described some Black organizations as mouthpieces of white conservatives. The organization has said Bush's education law disproportionately hurts minorities.

The No Child Left Behind law of 2001, Paige said, is dedicated to closing the learning gap between blacks and whites and giving school choice to poor and minority students. Paige said he is a lifelong NAACP member, yet now sees the organization betraying its origins.

"The civil-rights movement has historically been multicultural, and many of its founders, including those who established the NAACP, were in fact white," Paige said. "I long for the day when our nation's education policy will not be grist for the partisan mill — when we can work together, black and white, rich and poor, for the sake of our children."

Ambassador Wilson wrong

The Washington Times reports that the Senate Intelligence Committee report and the recently released British reports puts former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV's report on Niger in a very bad light. It seems that Wilson got it wrong about Iraq’s attempt to buy uranium from Niger:

"It is accepted by all parties that Iraqi officials visited Niger in 1999," the British report said. "The British government had intelligence from several different sources indicating that this visit was for the purpose of acquiring uranium.

"Since uranium constitutes almost three-quarters of Niger's exports, the intelligence was credible," the [British] report added.

It also seems that Wilson lied in his latest book to elect Sen. John Kerry:

Earlier this year, Mr. Wilson parlayed the controversy into a book, "The Politics of Truth," in which he insisted that his wife was not the one who had suggested that the CIA send him to Niger.

"Valerie had nothing to do with the matter," Mr. Wilson wrote. "She definitely had not proposed that I make the trip."

But that assertion was disputed by the Senate intelligence committee report last week.

"Interviews and documents provided to the committee indicate that his wife ... suggested his name for the trip," the report stated.

As opposed to Wilson’s assertion that he found no deal between Iraq and Niger, the two reports show that after the trip both countries found greater evidence of a deal between the two countries:

Like the British report, the United States did not back away from Mr. Bush's State of the Union assertion. The U.S. report said Mr. Wilson did little to change the CIA's belief that Iraq had tried to buy uranium.

"The report on the former ambassador's trip to Niger, disseminated in March 2002, did not change any analysts' assessment of the Iraq-Niger uranium deal," the U.S. report said. "For most analysts, the information in the report lent more credibility to the original Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) reports on the uranium deal."

Al Qaeda/Baghdad connection

The Washington Times reports on the fact that there was an al Qaeda – Baghdad connection prior to the Iraqi law:

British intelligence assessments of connections between al Qaeda and Saddam's government were similar to U.S. intelligence assessments, the report said, adding that there were "contacts between al Qaeda and the Iraqi Directorate General of Intelligence since 1998."

"Those reports described al Qaeda seeking toxic chemicals as well as other conventional terrorist equipment," the report said. "Some accounts suggested that Iraqi chemical experts may have been in Afghanistan during 2000."

The British concluded that the contacts did not lead to "practical cooperation" because of mutual distrust.

"Intelligence nonetheless indicates that ... meetings have taken place between senior Iraqi representatives and senior al Qaeda operatives," the report said. "Some reports also suggest that Iraq may have trained some al Qaeda terrorists since 1998. Al Qaeda has shown interest in gaining chemical and biological expertise from Iraq, but we do not know whether any such training was provided."

Al Qaeda was also in Baghdad:

A March 2003 British intelligence report stated that Zarqawi "has established sleeper cells in Baghdad, to be activated during a U.S. occupation of the city."

"These cells apparently intend to attack U.S. targets using car bombs and other weapons," the report said, noting that "it is also possible that they have received [chemical-biological] materials from terrorists in the [Kurdish Autonomous Zone]."

The report also said that "al Qaeda-associated terrorists continued to arrive in Baghdad in early March."

Whoopi big loser

The Slim Fast company is pulling the Whoopi Goldberg ad concerning how Whoopi is a big Loser. The loss comes from her profanity and vulgar behavior at a recent Sen. John Kerry fund-raiser. Kerry and Edwards both embraced the comments of Goldberg and other Hollywood artist who were equally obscene as being the heart and soul of America.

The company said in a statement that Goldberg's monologue "does not reflect the views and values of Slim-Fast," Agence France-Presse reports.

"We are disappointed by the manner in which Ms. Goldberg chose to express herself, and sincerely regret that her recent remarks offended some of our consumers," the company said in a statement. "Ads featuring Ms. Goldberg will no longer be on the air."