Kerry has to grab war issue
The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Taking On the Myth
Here's the important advice - Hope Kerry still ha time to read Krugman :
Can Mr. Kerry, who voted to authorize the Iraq war, criticize it? Yes, by pointing out that he voted only to give Mr. Bush a big stick. Once that stick had forced Saddam to let W.M.D. inspectors back in, there was no need to invade. And Mr. Kerry should keep pounding Mr. Cheney, who is trying to cover for the absence of W.M.D. by lying, yet again, about Saddam's ties to Al Qaeda.
Some pundits are demanding that Mr. Kerry produce a specific plan for Iraq - a demand they never make of Mr. Bush. Mr. Kerry should turn the tables, and demand to know what - aside from pretending that things are going fine - Mr. Bush intends to do about the spiraling disaster. And Mr. Kerry can ask why anyone should trust a leader who refuses to replace the people who created that disaster because he thinks it's bad politics to admit a mistake.
Mr. Kerry can argue that he wouldn't have overruled the commanders who had wanted to keep the pressure on Al Qaeda, or dismissed warnings from former Gen. Eric Shinseki, then the Army's chief of staff, that peacekeeping would require a large force. He wouldn't have ignored General Conway's warnings about the dangers of storming into Falluja, or overruled his protests about calling off that assault halfway through.
On the other hand, he can argue that he would have fired Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy defense secretary who ridiculed General Shinseki. And he would definitely have fired Donald Rumsfeld for the failure to go in with enough troops, the atrocities at Abu Ghraib and more.
The truth is that Mr. Bush, by politicizing the "war on terror," is putting America at risk. And Mr. Kerry has to say that.
Where the Bush plan? Where's the Bush plan? Where's the Bush plan?
We - the strongest military force in the world - are losing. What message does that send to the terrorists? We are losing in Iraq and we are staring to lose in Afghanistan.
Iraq is a disaster. Iraq is a disaster. Iraq is a disaster. Take the damned gloves off, Kerry - this sillly little son-of-bitch has screwed up everything he ever touched and now he's is screwing up - an dhepaing shame upon - the best and strongest nation in the world.
(Ooops - am I losing my cool again? It is absolutely unfathomable to me why people support this man. His approval rating should be hovering around zero.)
