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

To: Suma who wrote (50661)	9/30/2004 9:56:12 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 81568

Here is a New York Times Op-Ed to consider carefully... ____________________ WHAT TO ASK GEORGE BUSH Of God and War By ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER Jr. New York Times Op-Ed September 30, 2004 nytimes.com Do you really believe that there are fewer terrorists plotting against America today than there were before you began the invasion of Iraq? • Your version of Christianity supports and blesses preventive war. What relation is this to the Christianity preached by the pope and by mainstream Protestants who oppose preventive war? • Since you obviously did not anticipate the troubles in Iraq, what do you plan to do to the incompetent advisers who misled you and are responsible for the deaths of more than 1,000 American G.I.'s and 20,000 Iraqi civilians? Or do you not see an accountability problem? President John F. Kennedy fired the people who led him into the Bay of Pigs. Why do you not do likewise? ___________________ Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., who has won Pulitzer Prizes for history and biography, is the author, most recently, of "War and the American Presidency.''

To: Suma who wrote (50661)	9/30/2004 11:09:41 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

Kerry accuses Bush of 'stubborn incompetence' ______________________ <<...NEW YORK - Sen. John Kerry sharply escalated his criticism Monday of President Bush on Iraq, accusing him of “stubborn incompetence'' and warning that if Bush is re-elected “he will repeat, somewhere else, the same reckless mistakes that have made America less secure than we can or should be.'' The Democratic presidential nominee accused Bush of offering “23 different rationales'' for the war, the principal two of which - the presence of weapons of mass destruction and a possible link between Saddam Hussein's regime and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks - have not been proved. Kerry noted the rising level of American casualties and said that insurgent attacks have rendered whole sections of Iraq “no-go zones'' for US troops. Kerry, who in October 2002 voted in favor of a congressional resolution authorizing the war, said Bush rushed into Iraq without the backing of allies and without preparing a post-war plan or properly equipping American forces - “None of which I would have done,'' Kerry said. “Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator who deserves his own special place in hell,'' Kerry told a supportive audience assembled at New York University, downtown from where Bush will address the United Nations General Assembly today. “But that was not, in itself, a reason to go to war. The satisfaction we take in his downfall does not hide this fact: We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure.'' He blamed Bush for “colossal failures of judgment.'' “This is stubborn incompetence,'' he said...>> sltrib.com