Face the Iraq fiasco, Senator

[Larkspur]

Former war hero and protester John Kerry has to stop angling for position and confront Bush directly on the war
by Robert Scheer
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=16832

"How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"
That was the crucial question Vietnam combat veteran John Kerry put to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee 33 years ago, and it is the question that should be at the center of his presidential campaign.

Today, however, Kerry seems unable to admit that the war he voted to authorize in Iraq has been such a disaster, arguing only that we must "stay the course." Why? Wasn’t that the tragic advice from the best and brightest in the Lyndon Johnson administration?
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In the end, if Kerry is not to become the next Al Gore -- triangulating safe positions just this side of a Republican who is probably the most irresponsible American politician in a century -- he must challenge President Bush's entire vision, not just his tactics. What Bush is doing in the name of fighting terrorism has nothing to do with making us safer and everything to do with dressing up the grim goals of empire as a grand (and all-too-familiar) experiment in bringing enlightenment to so-called backward people at gunpoint.

To have a real choice in this election, we need to hear the voice of that young Navy hero who once warned us that murderous meddling in other countries' affairs will never win the hearts and minds of the people.

If Kerry fails to truly confront Bush and is elected, he may find himself answering his own awful question: "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"

[walkon]

1. I agree with every word Scheer wrote.

Is Kerry up to the job?