Like most of you, President Bush once mispronounced the word “nuclear” and instead said “nucular”. He was branded a moron.
But as more and more Kerry gaffes are pointed out (just the debate alone provides a small cornucopia of them) the press are sure to call Kerry a
moron
genius soon.
As blogger Adam Yoshida points out,
The second mistake, again, exposes a fundamental error of policy and reality on Senator Kerry’s part and it deserves some real examination. It deserves extensive quotation:
“With respect to North Korea, the real story: We had inspectors and television cameras in the nuclear reactor in North Korea. Secretary Bill Perry negotiated that under President Clinton. And we knew where the fuel rods were. And we knew the limits on their nuclear power… While they didn’t talk at all, the fuel rods came out, the inspectors were kicked out, the television cameras were kicked out. And today, there are four to seven nuclear weapons in the hands of North Korea.”
Senator Kerry misses entirely, and presumably his entire national security team misses, the significance of the point that President Bush then raised next when he said, “the breach on the agreement was not through plutonium. The breach on the agreement is highly enriched uranium.” That bears repeating: Senator Kerry either didn’t know, or hoped the public wouldn’t know, the difference between the two and the mechanics of how North Korea developed its nuclear weapons.
Another genius-making blunder occurred when Kerry said: “I was probably one of the first senators, along with Senator Bob Smith of New Hampshire, a former senator, go down into the KGB underneath Treblinka Square and see reams of files with names in them.”
Of course he wasn’t there at all. He was under Lubyanka Square.
But you know the old saying: Potato—potatto; Treblinka—Lubyanka; plutonium—highly enriched uranium…”
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