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Re: important article



On Sunday, January 25, 2004 at 01:55:13 (-0600) paul phillips writes:
>According to today's Globe and Mail, Kerry is not only leading the
>Democratic pack, but also has surged ahead of Dubya in the opinion
>polls.  While the latter gives us non-Americans some glimmer of hope or
>ridding the international political scene of that hideous creature,  I
>don't know enough about Kerry to make any judgement about whether he
>would be a good choice relative to others in the field.  I know he voted
>against the first gulf war and for the Iraq invasion.  Was that because
>he was taken in by the Administration's lies about WMD or is he also an
>imperialist?  ...

Bill Lear writes: 
> The lies of the Bush regime were so transparent that Kerry is either a
> complete idiot for being fooled, simply swallowed them without a
> second thought, or agreed that they were necessary.  He said this
> Sunday on a weekend news show that he "trust[s] Colin Powell
> implicitly".  Kerry probably knew the claims were vastly overblown
> and wanted the U.S. to invade in any case....

my impression is that Kerry voted against the Gulf War but not Dubya's splendid little war because on the latter he was scared to go against a Prez made popular by 911. This is just one sign of the Democratic Party's increasing cowardice.

Jim D.



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