Wolves Ad: Mr. Bush, The Terrorists Aren't "Waiting" To Do Us Harm

[DrFunkenstein]

The Bush campaign released an ad Friday renewing its criticism that Kerry is weak on national security, a key theme of the re-election effort. The spot shows wolves prowling in a dense forest as a narrator says, "Weakness attracts those who are waiting to do America harm."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&e=1&u=/ap/20041022/ap_on_el_pr/bush

The Kerry campaign should f'n nail Bush on this.

Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda aren't "biding their time" and waiting to see who is elected. They are planning to hurt and kill as many Americans as they can - that is their full time job. This displays a fundamental misunderstanding that Bush has about the nature of the evil we face today.

The only people "waiting" are the American public, who have yet to see Osama bin Laden "smoked out of his cave."





Unlike Bush, bin Laden doesn't take vacations.

[rkc3]

1. Unlike Bush, bin Laden doesn't take vacations.

That would be a great line to finish a rebuttal ad.

[Yuugal]

2. did I wake up in an alternate universe?

It boggles the mind that repukes can get away with scolding everyone about security when 911 HAPPENED ON THEIR WATCH! Do they really think that Rove and his anti-reality machine can pull this off? I have faith that most voters , when reminded of 911 and "wolves at the door", will be reminded much more of Bush's failures on 911 than any weakness on Kerry's part. We'll never get everyone to stop drinking the kool-aid but I would say that we have succeeded in getting a solid majority to question what they are being told by the MSM and the govt everyday.
The result is that ads like this actually help Kerry, as people watch them and scratch their heads and mutter to themselves ,"who the hell was president on 911 anyway"?

[The Magistrate]

14. Welcome To The Forum, Sir!

You are quite right. the enemies of our country are not waiting for an opportunity to strike us; they already found one while the Andover Cheerleader was on vacation, and struck us hard. This pathetic posuer, this cowardly candy-ass, was sucker-punched good, and doubtless, if left in charge, will be sucker-punched good again. That is something that does not happen to a grown man just once, and this drugstore cowboy is notoriously incapable of learning....

"LET'S GO GET THOSE BUSH BASTARDS!"

[KC21304]

3. Great ad. Let's change the script to show the Bush Adm.

did nothing as the wolves were lying in wait for us pre 9/11. They completely disregarded all the signs and warnings. We should be able to turn this against them.

And this is what Kerry must use to do it. http://www.bushlies.net/pages/1/

[NewYorkerfromMass]

4. Yep. That's already been noted. eom

[DrFunkenstein]

6. Kind of a "Faces of Death" Type of Thing?

Show someone getting mauled by wolves and have a voice overdubbed to say, "Bush waited until wolves were literally gnawing our legs off before he acted."

It would all be very tastefully done, of course. then cut to an image of Kerry - "John Kerry won't let you be eaten by wolves*."

*Unless you are out camping, in which case you are S.O.L.

[billybob537]

5. To uinderstand Bush you must

understand they attack where they are weakest. They are weak on Osama, so they attack Kerry with terrorism. They are weak on homeland security, so they attack. Watch them with this in mind and it becomes very clear.

[Norquist Nemesis]

7. OBL started thanking Allah and dancing the jig

on the day we invaded Iraq. The ONLY connection between 9/11 and Saddam Hussein is BUSH!!!

[DrFunkenstein]

9. Head Of The CIA bin Laden Unit Agrees With You

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US invasion of Iraq was a "tremendous gift" to Osama bin Laden and a major setback in the struggle against al-Qaeda, according to a CIA terrorism expert who has written a scathing account of the conduct of the US "war on terror."

A senior CIA analyst, "Anonymous" has been widely identified as the head of the bin Laden unit at the Central Intelligence Agency's Counterterrorist Center from 1996 to 1999.

"It's a disaster," he said. "I'm not an expert at all on Saddam or WMD (weapons of mass destruction) or Iraq but as it factors into the war against al-Qaeda or al-Qaedaism it was a tremendous gift to bin Laden. It validated so many of the arguments he's made over the past decade," "Anonymous" said, particularly the claim by the Saudi-born al-Qaeda leader that the West seeks to occupy the Islamic holy places.

"The idea that we would smash any government that posed a threat to Israel -- that's validated by our actions," he continued. "And his claim that we lust after control of Arab oil; Iraq has the second greatest reserves in the Arab world.

"So it's been an astounding victory for Osama bin Laden in terms of perceptions and perceptions are reality so often," "Anonymous" said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1512&e=...

[Roland99]

8. Bush is trying to scare his sheep with more fear and hatred

and, not to mention, rehashing lies that have been debunked several times over!

[DrFunkenstein]

11. Holy Crap (Literally) - Are These Wolves Meant As Biblical Imagery?

Is Bush supposed to be the Good Shepherd protecting the flock?

Jesus Christ, that is just about the scariest thought that has occurred to me this entire campaign...

[Roland99]

13. Wouldn't surprise me if that was his intention.

[swag]

10. View the Kerry Rapid Response, and pass it around:

http://blog.johnkerry.com/rapidresponse/archives/003606.html#more

Excerpts:

FACT CHECK: Bush’s Hand-Picked Choice for Head of the CIA Called for Huge Cuts in Intel

Porter Goss, Hand-Picked By Bush to Head CIA, Wanted to Cut Intel More Than Kerry, And Specifically Targeted “Human Intelligence.” “The Bush reelection campaign has been blasting Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry as deeply irresponsible for proposing intelligence cuts at the same time. A Bush campaign ad released on Aug. 13 carried a headline: ‘John Kerry...proposed slashing Intelligence Budget 6 Billion Dollars.’ But the cuts Goss supported are larger than those proposed by Kerry and specifically targeted the ‘human intelligence’ that has recently been found lacking. The recent report by the commission probing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks called for more spending on human intelligence.”

· Goss Cuts Would Have Cut Intelligence Personnel By 4% or More. “But three months earlier, on June 22, Goss was one of six original co-sponsors of legislation titled H.R. 1923, called the Restructuring a Limited Government Act. Among other things, the legislation, written by then-Rules Committee Chairman Gerald B.H. Solomon (R-N.Y.), directed that "the president shall, for each of fiscal years 1996 through 2000, reduce the total number of military and civilian personnel employed by, or assigned or detailed to, elements of the Intelligence Community by not less than 4 percent of the baseline number" of employees on Sept. 30, 1995. There are believed to be about 20,000 employees of the CIA, and an unknown number of others in the military intelligence agencies.

Bush Administration Proposed Intelligence Cuts AFTER 9-11. In the early days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Bush White House cut by nearly two-thirds an emergency request for counterterrorism funds by the FBI, an internal administration budget document shows. The document, dated Oct. 12, 2001, shows that the FBI requested $1.5 billion in additional funds to enhance its counterterrorism efforts with the creation of 2,024 positions. But the White House Office of Management and Budget cut that request to $531 million. Attorney General John D. Ashcroft, working within the White House limits, cut the FBI's request for items such as computer networking and foreign language intercepts by half, cut a cyber-security request by three quarters and eliminated entirely a request for “collaborative capabilities.”

Bush Provided Only One-Third Of Counter-Terrorism Funding In 2005 Budget. Bush’s FY05 intelligence budget only provided a third of the counter-terrorism funding that our intelligence agencies said they needed to fight terrorism next year. The CIA Counterterrorism Center is only funded at 20% in the President’s budget request. The other 80% of the money it needs to fight al Qaeda will have to come from supplementals. The bill would authorize an estimated $40 billion for intelligence spending, including roughly $30 billion for defense intelligence agencies and $5 billion for the CIA. Exact funding levels are classified.

Washington Post: Republican Criticism on Kerry Intel Record is Wrong. “President Bush, in his first major assault on Sen. John F. Kerry's legislative record, said this week that his Democratic opponent proposed a $1.5 billion cut in the intelligence budget, a proposal that would ‘gut the intelligence services,’ and one that had no co-sponsors because it was ‘deeply irresponsible’….In fact, the Republican-led Congress that year approved legislation that resulted in $3.8 billion being cut over five years from the budget of the National Reconnaissance Office -- the same program Kerry said he was targeting.”

In 1995, a Secret Billion Dollar Slush Fund was Found in the Intelligence Budget Which Served as a Opportunity To Cut Waste And Abuse. “The White House said yesterday it was "inexcusable" that the top secret agency that manages U.S. spy satellites had reportedly hoarded $ 1 billion in unspent funds…The unspent funds were discovered after the Senate intelligence committee questioned a luxurious $ 300 million headquarters the NRO was building in a Washington suburb.” Kerry was part of bipartisan effort to cut waste & abuse in the NRO. The $1.5 billion cut Kerry proposed represented about the same amount Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), then chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, told the Senate that same day he wanted to cut from the intelligence spending bill based on unspent, secret funds that had been accumulated ‘without informing the Pentagon, CIA or Congress.’

Kerry Strongly Supports Increased Intelligence Funding – Including $250 Billion in the Previous 8 Years – A 50% Increase Since 1996 – John Kerry has strongly supported recent increases in Intelligence funding, and, in the wake of 9/11, has supported the bipartisan call for an even larger increase in intelligence funding. According to a report issued by the Center for Defense Information entitled “Intelligence Funding and the War on Terror” John Kerry has supported approximately $250 billion in Intelligence funding over the past eight years alone. The report concludes that Kerry has supported a 50% increase in intelligence funding since 1996.

[Supersedeas]

12. more scare tactics--with the meaningful scare of the message which

bleeds through *' Halloween werewolf ad, sounding something of:

* has some demonic control over the wolves, the moon, and the scary forces are waiting for their prince to sleep.

when the * sleeps, the moon returns.
Happy Haaallllloooooweeeen!!!






I'm sick of this childish chickensh*t.