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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (197626)	8/13/2004 3:07:50 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574205

The Iraq war is shaping up to be the greatest American foreign policy debacle since Vietnam. It has killed nearly 1,000 American soldiers and wounded more than 6,000, while tying down 140,000 troops whose numbers are inadequate for the challenge. Its price tag has reached $150 billion, with more costs to come. The war and occupation have alienated our friends, inflamed anti-Americanism in the Arab world and diverted us from the war on Al Qaeda. If those facts don't convince Kerry that his vote was a mistake, it's hard to imagine what would. Actually, it's not so hard to imagine what would cause Kerry to recant: political expedience. The Massachusetts senator firmly believes something he firmly believed when he voted for the war resolution, which is that he should take the politically safe course no matter what. So he's happy to straddle the fence by criticizing Bush for taking us down the wrong road in Iraq, while refusing to say Congress should have stopped him. And he figures he can stand by his vote because opponents of the war have nowhere else to turn. Frankly, I don't care what anyone says about the war resolution because I saw how it went and it wasn't pretty. In recent history, there have been two times I have been embarrassed to be an American........the first was the 2000 election and the way the GOP reacted to the vote in FLA, and the second was the vote on the war resolution when only few Dems voted against it. In fact, Senator Murray from the great state of WA was one of the few. The rest capitulated to the witchhunt that was under way at the time........if you did not vote for the war, you were unAmerican and unpatriotic. It was disgusting. Both times showed a Dem leadership that was afraid to stand up to the GOP. However, I am more confident that that will not happen in the future.......new Dem leaders are coming up the ranks and they have learned from the two debacles I have described above. They will not be so easily cowed. And while I don't admire Kerry for going along with the war vote, I can hardly condemn him for it. It was a bad time where fear ruled this country. The guy who wrote that article either conveniently has forgotten the conditions that were in play when the resolution was passed or was pro war at the time or is an ideologue in his own right and is unbending and unforgiving. As for Kerry's alleged flip flopping, I've read what he is saying about the issue and I don't see the flip flopping. There may be some smoke, but there ain't no fire. However, the GOP is trying to make it into a fire just as they tried to light a match under his war record. Frankly, I think these kind of attacks will backfire. ted