Bush looks pretty bad lately; as dailyhowler says, the powers that be in Washington have decided that he has to go. But lets not be rubes and forget that he didn't get us into the Iraq mess all by himself, nor was it only the Republicans who shoved this horror down our throats. Plenty of Democrats have blood on their hands; how many times did you see Ken Pollack, of the Clinton administration, on TV advocating war with Iraq?http://www.antiwar.com/orig/barry.php?articleid=2630
Whatever else it is, the Iraq war is a disaster for the United States. We are spending $6 billion a month, now, after the "war" is over. Kerry says he'll have "combat" troops out of there by the end of his first term. How many will that leave who can be titled something other than "combat?" Will he go ahead with the 14 military bases Bush plans? Will he keep the American Embassy "Green Zone" that is virtually a city within Baghdad, claiming extraterritoriality (privilege of immunity from local law)?
Will Kerry do business with the Democratic crowd that got us into this or will he keep them away from power and influence? Signs are not good. Bob Kerrey (read the article) being on the 9/11 commission is not a good sign.
This is serious, folks. We Americans have become HATED around the world. When an American gets murdered, Europeans see some good in it, that we might learn something from it. Thats the way they've come to see us.
Vaclav Havel, the first Czech president, told about something that happened at the end of WWII in the town he grew up in, when he was just a boy. There were lots of ethnic Germans living in Eastern Europe and when the war was ending and the Red Army was coming, they needed to flee to Germany. A German woman wheeling a baby in a carriage was trying to flee through the town, just a mother and her baby and the carriage with whatever she could take. It was as if the whole town rose up and chased her and threw her and the baby and the carriage into the river where they drowned. Havel grew up in that town and nobody ever talked about it again.
This is serious. We can't think that putting a new face, i.e., Kerry's face, on the US will cause people to trust us when the same crowd of warmongers lurks around Kerry, urging the "use of force," i.e., trying to rule the world with violence.
