Thursday, July 15, 2004
Kerry: "I Am Against the War"
Kerry first came to prominence as a Vietnam war veteran against the war who famously asked: How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?
John Podhoretz: John Kerry has finally spoken the words that make the November election an unambiguous choice.
On "60 Minutes" on Sunday night, according to the official transcript released by CBS News, Kerry said: "I am against the — the war."
He tried to qualify them, to fudge them a bit, but no matter. The words are now out there and can't be taken back.
The possible future president of the United States opposes the war in Iraq now being fought by 130,000 American troops.
If President Bush had had greater success in building international support for the war in Iraq, they (Kerry and Little Johnny) said in unison on Sunday night, "we would have found out" that Saddam Hussein did not have stockpiles of banned weapons.
Try to follow the twisted logic here. Kerry and Edwards say, if we'd done better building a coalition to go to war with us, we would have somehow magically discerned that Saddam didn't have WMD and therefore we wouldn't have had to go to war at all.
This is quite a novel argument, so you have to give the boys credit for adding an odd twist to the current campaign season. The problem is that the argument is ludicrous in the extreme.
How, after Sunday night, could a President Kerry ask a single man or woman in the U.S. armed forces to risk his or her life in Iraq when he is "against the — the war"?
Don't simple honesty and decency demand that Kerry immediately announce his plans for a complete withdrawal from Iraq?
Kerry may share JFK's initials, but right now, the president he most resembles is Richard Milhous Nixon — the very man he condemned in 1971 for not wanting to be "the first president to lose a war."
Nixon did become the first president to lose a war.
If John Kerry becomes president, he'll be the second.
Kerry first came to prominence as a Vietnam war veteran against the war who famously asked: How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?
John Podhoretz: John Kerry has finally spoken the words that make the November election an unambiguous choice.
On "60 Minutes" on Sunday night, according to the official transcript released by CBS News, Kerry said: "I am against the — the war."
He tried to qualify them, to fudge them a bit, but no matter. The words are now out there and can't be taken back.
The possible future president of the United States opposes the war in Iraq now being fought by 130,000 American troops.
If President Bush had had greater success in building international support for the war in Iraq, they (Kerry and Little Johnny) said in unison on Sunday night, "we would have found out" that Saddam Hussein did not have stockpiles of banned weapons.
Try to follow the twisted logic here. Kerry and Edwards say, if we'd done better building a coalition to go to war with us, we would have somehow magically discerned that Saddam didn't have WMD and therefore we wouldn't have had to go to war at all.
This is quite a novel argument, so you have to give the boys credit for adding an odd twist to the current campaign season. The problem is that the argument is ludicrous in the extreme.
How, after Sunday night, could a President Kerry ask a single man or woman in the U.S. armed forces to risk his or her life in Iraq when he is "against the — the war"?
Don't simple honesty and decency demand that Kerry immediately announce his plans for a complete withdrawal from Iraq?
Kerry may share JFK's initials, but right now, the president he most resembles is Richard Milhous Nixon — the very man he condemned in 1971 for not wanting to be "the first president to lose a war."
Nixon did become the first president to lose a war.
If John Kerry becomes president, he'll be the second.
