dKos post: Krauthammer Blames John Kerry for Iraq Debacle

[beachmom]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/9/8/131155/9566

Check it out, rec, and comment. Mostly positive so far in regards to Kerry.

[beachmom]

1. Oh Yuck -- just read the whole Krauthammer editorial

It's a Kerry bashfest:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/07/AR2006090701616.html

There are two rationales for withdrawing from -- let's be honest, abandoning -- Iraq: (a) Iraq is not worth it, and (b) worth it or not, the cause is lost.

The first rationale was articulated most recently by John Kerry: "Iraq is not the center of the war on terror. The president keeps saying it is. The president keeps trying to push that down America's throat. It's wrong, it's a mistake and it's losing us the ability to do what we need to do in the region." This is absurd. If the United States leaves, the central government in Iraq will collapse, and the beneficiaries will be Iran, Syria and al-Qaeda, the three major terrorist actors in the world today. It would not just be a psychological victory but also a territorial one. Al-Qaeda would gain a base in Mesopotamia; Syria and Iran would share spheres of influence in what's left of the Iraqi state.



Gee, Charles, isn't Iraq ALREADY a base for al Qaeda and do Syria and Iran not ALREADY have a sphere of influence in Iraq? YOUR arguments are absurd.

[sandnsea]

6. Read the last paragraph

"Yesterday Maliki took over operational control of the Iraqi armed forces, the one national security institution that works. He needs to demonstrate the will to use it. The American people will support a cause that is noble and necessary, but not one that is unwinnable. And without a central Iraqi government willing to act in its own self-defense, this war will be unwinnable."

That's exactly what Kerry is saying. Set a deadline to force the Iraqis to act in their own defense because that's the only way that there will ever be a chance for stability in Iraq. That's how stupid these Republicans are, they are so blinded by their party politics that they don't even see when they no longer believe in their own policies.

[wisteria]

2. You have got to be kidding me. What nonsense from a irrational

Republican pundit.

[Blaukraut]

3. I see how it is..

The Republicans, as usual, drop a turd on the floor, and if the Dems aren't there immediately with a broom and dustpan, it's their fault that someone stepped in it. Rightwing logic at its finest.

[ginnyinWI]

4. rec'd and commented n/t

[karynnj]

5. You made some really nice comments

Most people think the author is crazy - I assume there would have been no war if Kerry voted against it.