Kerry's Mistake
Rothschild, Matthew
Editor's Note Matthew Rothschild Kerry's Mistake Ruth Conniff covered the Democratic Convention for us, and she returned from Boston impressed by the show of unity, the positive tone, and the...
...Bush has plenty of tricks up his sleeve, some of which we discuss in our Comment this month...
...How is that going to happen...
...Most of you reading this probably think that is a problem of secondary importance, but I think it's legitimate...
...Edwards did a bad Bush impression when he said, of Al Qaeda: "You cannot run...
...He may end up asking a lot of men to be the last to die for a mistake...
...But how could they have...
...soldiers are going to die or be wounded as a result...
...Kerry said to Congress in 1971: "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake...
...But she makes a good point in her piece this month: Assuming Kerry wins, then what...
...Kerry did engage in some historical distortion, however, when he said the United States has a "time-honored tradition" of fighting wars of necessity...
...That is the worst kind of mindless U.N.-bashing...
...So, too, was Kerry's vow never to go to war because we want to, but only because we have to...
...Financing the ad is none other than a Houston developer and major Republican contributor named Bob Perry, who coughed up a hundred grand for this hatchet job...
...Kerry's victory is by no means assured...
...I was relieved to hear Kerry say he would "never mislead us into war...
...And how many more Iraqis and U.S...
...That Kerry deserved only two and a half Purple Hearts, not three...
...Though the men Kerry commanded swear high and low about his courage and leadership, some Republican vets are running an ad that says Kerry "betrayed the men he served with...
...John Edwards, for his part, said in his speech that the United States was actually going to "win this war" in Iraq...
...She is predicting, as I am, that Kerry will prevail...
...My criticism of the Democrats in Boston is that they didn't accentuate their differences with Bush, especially on the Iraq War...
...Kerry received not one, not two, but three Purple Hearts, the Bronze Star, and the Silver Star...
...Just as columnist Ann Coulter has minimized the injuries that triple-amputee Max Cleland received as a soldier, other Republican mudthrowers are now trying to tarnish Kerry's medals...
...Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, denounced the ad as "dishonest and dishonorable...
...Charter that prohibits countries from defending themselves when their very survival is at stake...
...Those adjectives characterize the policies of the Bush Administration in toto...
...Kerry did his own Bush impression when he said, "I will never give any nation or international institution a veto over our national security...
...The irony of a Kerry Presidency would be if this Vietnam vet who became famous for his criticism of that war presided over a remake of Vietnam...
...Editor's Note Matthew Rothschild Kerry's Mistake Ruth Conniff covered the Democratic Convention for us, and she returned from Boston impressed by the show of unity, the positive tone, and the concern for ordinary Americans...
...That is no easy task...
...That was a good, fair shot at Bush...
...There is nothing in the U.N...
...Bush's mistake would then become his own...
...As Bill Clinton joked at the Democratic Convention, what are these slanderers saying...
...Kerry now has almost the same approach to Iraq as Bush does, a concession that even Howard Dean made on PBS...
...The smear on Kerry's military record is a case in point...
...You cannot hide...
...How about the Mexican War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, Korea, Vietnam, and the first Gulf War, just to name a few...
...And a dirty campaign is guaranteed...
...And we will destroy you...
Vol. 68 • September 2004 • No. 9
