GUEST, you are wrong.

Health Care:

Kerry's detailed plan is here. He has talked about it on numerous occasions.

Here's a piece of their message: "John Kerry and John Edwards will move America in a new direction with a plan that puts America?s seniors first and ensures that they have access to affordable, quality, and reliable health care. The Kerry-Edwards plan will create a real, meaningful affordable drug benefit, and take steps to bring down prescription drug costs, including reimportation from Canada."

Kerry on 9-11 commission:

?I?d like to say a few words about the 9-11 Commission Report that was just released. The commission has done an extraordinary job. It has issued a clear set of recommendations to protect us from terrorism and make America safer.

?Now that the 9-11 Commission has done its job, we need to do ours. We understand the threat. We have a blueprint for action. We have the strength as a nation to do what must be done. The only thing we don't have is time.

?Leadership requires that we act decisively to protect America. That is why we created this commission in the first place. And it is why when the commission issued their report it called for immediate action. Not talk. Not vague promises. Not excuses. Peddling and back peddling is something America can't afford. It will take real, bipartisan leadership and real action to protect America. The stakes are too high to treat this commission?s report as something to just go away. The threat will not just go away. The commission's recommendation should not just go away. It is time for leadership.

?We must act on the commission's recommendations now, and keep working, without pause, until we have done everything possible to prevent another terrorist attack.

?That is why I support the 9-11 Commission's commitment to continue pushing for progress and make sure its recommendations are implemented without further delay.

?The commission should stay on the job for at least another 18 months and, beginning this December, the commission should issue a status report every six months to address the following questions with absolute candor: First, are we doing enough, fast enough, to strengthen our homeland security? Second, are we reorganizing our intelligence agencies to meet the terrorist threat? Third, are we building a true global alliance to fight the terrorists and their extremist ideology? Fourth, are we leading and uniting the world, so that we isolate our enemies, not ourselves? Fifth and finally, are we doing everything we can do to make America as safe as it can be?

?The president and Congress have it in their power to make the commission's first progress report a hopeful one. The president has the authority to implement many of the comission's recommendations by executive order. And Congress must do its part where legislation and funding are needed. We simply must act, not as partisans, but as patriots, not to win an argument about what was done or not done in the past, but to win a war upon which our future depends. So I hope the president will now take the necessary steps.

?So I hope the president will now take the necessary steps. If he does not, then the day I become president I will lead, in a bipartisan manner, to ensure that the commission's recommendations are implemented immediately. These are common sense ideas from a bipartisan commission -- and we can't continue to ignore them, as doing so would be at our peril.?

Kerry on Abu Ghraib:

?Yesterday, the Schlesinger panel released their report which found that much of the responsibility for setting the conditions for the abuse at Abu Ghraib can be attributed to failures at highest levels of our government. Today the Fay report will be released and will recommend punitive action for those in our military who were directly involved.

?But what is missing from all these reports is accountability from the senior civilian leaders in the Pentagon and in the White House. From the bottom of the chain of command all the way to the top, there needs to be accountability. The Schlesinger report makes clear that Secretary Rumsfeld was responsible for setting a climate where these types of abuses could occur.

?By failing to plan to win the peace, by failing to make sure our troops received the proper training, equipment, reinforcement and command guidance, and by failing to take corrective actions once all of this became apparent, Secretary Rumsfeld did not demonstrate the leadership required from a Secretary of Defense.

?That is why today I am calling on Secretary Rumsfeld to resign effective immediately. In addition, I call on the President to appoint an independent investigation to review the entire decision making process that led to these abuses and provide a comprehensive set of reforms so that we can ensure that this never happens again.

?As Harry Truman said, the buck stops here. The time has come for our Commander in Chief to take charge.?


I could go down the whole list. But the point is, GUEST, yes, you've missed something. In every case.

Do you think it's just possible that it's YOU who are clueless?