Posted by Karen Hanretty at 12:00 am on Aug 20, 2006 Comments Off on Is Phil Anti-Iraq War, or Just Anti-War?
On ABC’s "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," Senator John
Kerry today came out aggressively opposed to the war in Iraq,
Senator Joe Lieberman (he called him the "new Cheney"), and
President George W. Bush. No surprises there.
Kerry and his ilk are pushing an anti-Iraq war agenda, which I
think the media is interpreting as being anti-war, period.
But that isn’t what Kerry is saying. Or at least, it isn’t
what he said today.
Specifically, he said that the war on terror is not centered in
Iraq but rather is in a host of nations – probably 40 to 60 by
now.
I know I’m playing Monday Morning Quarterback here, but it
strikes me that if Stephanopoulos had had his wits about him this
morning, he might have bothered to ask John Kerry WHERE the US
military should be waging the war on terror.
Kerry stated, “I believe we can fight a far more
effective war on terror.”
Therefore, Kerry is not anti-war, as the Ned Lamonties would
like to believe. He simply is suggesting that we pull out of
Iraq and fight the war on terror elsewhere.
But when reporters like… Read More