Rowhouse Logic - Breathtaking Inanity

John Kerry, from today’s speach in Philadelphia:

After being warned about the danger of major stockpiles of explosives in Iraq, this administration failed to guard those stockpiles where nearly 380 tons of highly explosive materials were being kept. Today, America has learned that those stockpiles are missing, they’re unaccounted for and they could be in the hands of terrorists.

Terrorists can use this material to blow up our airplanes, blow up our buildings, kill American troops.

Now, it’s not bad enough that it’s missing. In May of this year, the administration was warned that terrorists may be helping themselves to, quote — this was the warning — “the greatest explosives bonanza in history.”

And now we know that our country and our troops are less safe because this president failed to do the basics. This is one of the great additional blunders of Iraq.

The unbelievable incompetence of this administration, step after step, has put our troops at greater and greater risk, overextended the American military, isolated the United States, put a greater financial burden on the American people. George W. Bush has failed the test of commander in chief.

And I just ask you — I want you to do exactly what President Clinton just said a moment ago.

He said his presence here may or may not change a mind, but the reasons may be able to change the minds. And I want you to think about that in the context of this administration’s choices.

They have miscalculated again and again and again with the security of our nation. Miscalculated how they chose to go to war. Miscalculated about how many troops they needed. Miscalculated about Osama Bin Laden at Tora Bora and outsourcing the job to Afghan warlords, rather than doing it ourselves and using the best trained troops in the world to go up in those mountains and capture and kill Osama Bin Laden.

And then finally, you all remember how Secretary Rumsfeld just casually dismissed the looting and said, “Well, looting happens.” Now we know the impact.

Make no mistake, our troops are the best-trained, best-led forces in the world and they’ve been doing their job honorably and with courage.

But the commander in chief has failed to do his and the result is if George Bush can’t recognize his mistakes as he goes along, how’s he going to fix them?

We don’t want four more years of the same. We need a new policy, a fresh start, new credibility in order to get the job done in Iraq and get our troops home. That’s what we need to do.

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