Harold Ford Jr. was speaking on Friday night to the University of Memphis Law School alumni banquet, and he happened to mention that he would NOT repudiate his support for the Iraq War.
The Memphis Flyer covered the story, with lovely quotes like this:
"I support this war in Iraq. I supported it from the very beginning for one reason. Saddam Hussein was a bad guy. Now, there are those who criticize and quarrel with this, and make the point over and over again that perhaps we shouldn't have done it the way we've done it, and I would agree. But I wouldn't blame the president, or anybody else for that matter, from waking up on September 12th and wondering aloud what would happen if Saddam Hussein and bin Laden married.
"It would be very easy for us to sit back in the comfort of our own homes and say, Well, one is secular and one is religious and they won't . It wou d be very easy for us to think that 9/11 wouldn't happen, but it did." more after the break!
Ford Junior then went on to note that he felt Bush's "instinct' had been right, but that there was "a lot of room for change" in how we fight the Iraq war.
Other comments by the would-be Senator:
"I love my president. I love him personally," Ford said. "But he's just wrong. - wrong for not being willing to admit that we've made some mistakes....It was right to take him [Saddam] down but wrong to think that we can't right this course."
I fully understand that once you leave Shelby County (Memphis) that the state turns dramatically to the right. However, this is pandering in the worst possible light, and it is detestable that any one who is running for the DEMOCRATIC nomination for Senate could even consider these views.
I can't support him.
Here's the Flyer link:
http://www.memphisflyer.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A9965