Reply #3: Surprisingly good PRE- show write up of Kerry and Rumdfeld in 2001

[karynnj]

They do not SAY Kerry was right, but his words really were extremely prescient. Bush amplified "terror" comments kept the US terrorized, while Kerry's shine in pointing out the truth - they win if we live in fear.

Senator Kerry, now the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, was also a guest on Face the Nation on September 23, 2001. He said that day that getting Americans to live their lives and to keep the economy moving was incredibly important in the U.S. response to the attacks.

"If you want to do an act of patriotism, if you were going to buy a car, go out and buy that car. If you were going to do some trip, go do that trip. It is safer to fly today in the United States than it has been in a long time...Americans must get on the with business of being American," he said.

Kerry also made an important point about the role intelligence would play in the decade long war on terror that started with the 9/11 attacks -- intelligence that ultimately led to the killing of bin Laden.

"This is not like any war we have ever fought... and the tragedy is, at the moment, that the single most important weapon for the United States of America is intelligence. It's the single most important weapon in this particular war," he said. "And we are the weakest, frankly, in that particular area. So it's going to take us time to be able to build up here to do this properly."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/06/ftn/main20060574.shtml

For all the blatant attempts by all Bush allies that this is Bush victory, it actually validates Kerry's 2001 words and recommendations. It is so obvious that a media that has NEVER credited Kerry for much has these few articles that do. In his case, the facts make the case - not partisan advocates pressing his case.