John Kerry beta version

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

“But if the war is not ended when the people choose in November, the 
choice will be clear. Here it is.

“…this administration has had at its disposal the greatest military and 
economic advantage that one nation has ever had over another in any war 
in history.

“…America’s fighting men have set a record for courage and sacrifice 
unsurpassed in our history.

“…Never has so much military and economic and diplomatic power been used 
so ineffectively.

“And if after all of this time and all of this sacrifice and all of this 
support there is still no end in sight, then I say the time has come for 
the American people to turn to new leadership—not tied to the mistakes 
and the policies of the past. That is what we offer America…

“I say the time has come for other nations in the Free World to bear 
their fair share of the burden of defending peace and freedom around 
this world.

“What I call for is not a new isolationism. It is a new internationalism 
in which America enlists its allies and its friends around the world in 
those struggles in which their interest is as great as ours…

“…After an era of confrontation, the time has come for an era of 
negotiation.”

Richard Nixon (Miami, August, 1968)

(this was lifted from Joe Auciello's "The Worst of Times: A Tale of Two 
Conventions" at: 
http://www.laborstandard.org/New_Postings/Joe_A_Elections_04.htm)



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