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This wasn’t John Kerry’s first Global Test
October 7th, 2004 2:00 pm

John Kerry pressed for the President to pass a test before taking action against terrorists,

“While I stated that my initial inclination was to support the President, I pointed out that two essential tests had to be met in determining whether or not the U.S. action was appropriate. First, the United States had to have irrefutable evidence directly linking the regime to a terrorist act and, second, our response should be proportional to that act.”

But this wasn’t 2004, it was 1986. This was John Kerry’s response to Ronald Reagan’s military actions against Libya. It gives a very interesting insight into what John Kerry thinks of fighting terrorists.

Admitting that the evidence tying Tripoli to the disco bombing was “irrefutable,” the U.S. had failed the proportionality test, Kerry argued - “It is obvious that our response was not proportional to the disco bombing … “There are numerous other actions we can take, in concert with our allies, to bring significant pressure to bear on countries supporting or harboring terrorists.”

You see, even in the face of admitting “irrefutable” evidence linking a country to terrorism against the U.S., John Kerry was still calling for sanctions, rather than action. John Kerry keeps reiterating his red herring argument that Saddam was not tied to 9/11. His stance in 1986 persents a very clear indication that even if Saddam had personally packed the luggage for Mohammad Atta on September 11, 2001, John Kerry would’ve still opposed military action in favor of sanctions.

That’s NOT the way I want my President addressing terrorists.

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[…] …and remember his “Global Test” for world leaders to take before responding to terrorism: “While I stated that my initial inclination was to support the President, I pointed out that two essential tests had to be met in determining whether or not the U.S. action was appropriate. First, the United States had to have irrefutable evidence directly linking the regime to a terrorist act and, second, our response should be proportional to that act.” […]

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[…] Not only is Bell relying on John Kerry’s “Global Test” that include “proportional response”, but he’s arguing that we shouldn’t be fighting so hard because the terrorists can only kill a bunch of us, but probably not all of us… thus, in the words of Michael Moore, “there is no terrorist threat.” […]

Pingback by Texas Rainmaker » Was 9/11 Really That Bad? — 4:06 pm
[…] In 2004, John Kerry touted his “global test“, one that suggested the U.S. should not take military action unless we had “irrefutable evidence” linking a regime to a terrorist act (note that this means we have to wait to be attacked before acting), and then even if we did act, it should be “in proportion” to that act (is he suggesting we hijack some Air Afghanistan flights and crash them into buildings in Kabul?) […]

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