Rating the Presidential Candidates on Iraq; Another Agonizing Year Ahead (Rudy - most dangerous)..

[Indi Guy]

Source: Huffington Post

While most peace activists are evaluating the Democrats, I would Rudolph Giuliani as the most dangerous of all the presidential candidates in a long while, because his Iraq and Iran policies are the work of the most hawkish neo-conservatives who promoted the Iraq quagmire and now want to bomb Iran as soon as possible...

Giuliani is advised by a network of neo-con hawks led by Norman Podhoretz who call for a Cold War-type struggle against "Islamofascism", the immediate bombing of Iran , the right to assassinate the leaders of Iran and North Korea, and the assumption that all American Muslims are suspect. . They are a well-organized machine (with) millions of dollars available to attack MoveOn and bankroll campus campaigns against the new foreign enemy of Islamofascism, which they believe can and must be militarily defeated.

Principled Democrats with single-digit support at present should be considered as strong voices against the war, and possible contributors to a long-term progressive movement...




Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-hayden/rating-the-presidential-c_b_70971.html

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A great read; although, as radlib1 points out, "Remember Kucinich? He's been right on this wrong war all along".