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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (15404)	4/16/2004 8:55:02 PM
From: Bearcatbob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Chinu, On occasion you have posted that this thread is not about you or kerry spirit. Well, in the source post I am responding to you used one of kerry spirits favorite terms - neocon. The two of you, along with the likes of Lizzie, are a huge part of our national problem. How is that you might say? The country very much needs an open and intelligent debate on key issues and problems. Problems that are neither started by anyone person or to be solved by anyone person. These problems can only be solved with a unified effort decided on by fair and open debate. The kerry campaign and that of you and his kindred spirits regularly use words like neocon and liar. You people inflame the debate. You polarize the debate. That approach - the kerry approach - is exactly what the country does not need. Anne C was a booster of John Edwards - I was not. However, the possibility of an honest debate would have existed with JE as the dem nominee. Now there is no chance. As we become more polarized the possibility of meaningful action disappears. Very sad.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (15404)	4/16/2004 9:05:14 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Kerry: Terrorist Shiite Al-Sadr 'a Legitimate Voice' Wednesday, April 7, 2004 10:41 a.m. newsmax.com In an interview broadcast Wednesday morning, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry defended terrorist Shiite imam Muqtada al-Sadr as a "legitimate voice" in Iraq, despite that fact that he's led an uprising that has killed nearly 20 American GIs in the last two days. Speaking of al-Sadr's newspaper, which was shut down by coalition forces last week after it urged violence against U.S. troops, Kerry complained to National Public Radio, "They shut a newspaper that belongs to a legitimate voice in Iraq." In the next breath, however, the White House hopeful caught himself and quickly changed direction. "Well, let me ... change the term 'legitimate.' It belongs to a voice — because he has clearly taken on a far more radical tone in recent days and aligned himself with both Hamas and Hezbollah, which is a sort of terrorist alignment." But Kerry again seemed to voice sympathy for the Shiite terrorist when asked whether he supported al-Sadr's arrest. "Not if it’s an isolated act without the other kinds of steps necessary to change the dynamics on the ground in Iraq," Kerry told NPR, in quotes first reported by the New York Sun. "If all we do is make war against the Iraqi people and continue an American occupation, fundamentally, without a clarity as to who and how sovereignty is being turned over, we have a very serious problem for the long run here," Kerry added. "And I think this administration is just walking dead center down into that trap." On March 28, the U.S.-led coalition authorities closed al-Sadr's newspaper, al-Hawza, for 60 days, the Sun reported. L. Paul Bremer, the chief U.S. administrator in Iraq, charged that the newspaper had published false stories blaming the coalition forces for local acts of terrorism.