[Vision2020] ANOTHER National Democrat on Iraq

Tom Hansen thansen@moscow.com
Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:29:32 -0700


Of course, one must realize that John McCaslin stands slightly to the right
of Rush Limbaugh as relfected in the articles authored by him at:

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/johnmccaslin/archive.shtml

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vision2020-admin@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-admin@moscow.com]On
> Behalf Of Tim Lohrmann
> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 6:09 PM
> To: vision2020@moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] ANOTHER National Democrat on Iraq
>
>
> Visionaries,
>    The Democrats' Iraq stances are looking
> increasingly schizophrenic, no?
>    TL
>
> >
> > INSIDE THE BELTWAY
> > By John McCaslin
> > ----------------------------------------------------
> >      KERRY'S WAR
> >
> >      Suffice it to say that Democratic presidential
> > hopeful John Kerry has made "Iraqgate" the theme of
> > his campaign.
> >
> >      On virtually every stump he's stood on this
> > week, the Massachusetts Democrat has complained that
> > President Bush sidestepped the congressionally
> > approved path to war by bypassing the United
> > Nations, by not building an international coalition,
> > and simply by not doing what it was that he had
> > promised to do (actually, one could argue that the
> > senator is wrong on all three counts).
> >
> >      Forget that Mr. Kerry voted in favor of the
> > Iraq war resolution. He did so, he now says, with
> > the understanding that Mr. Bush would exhaust every
> > remedy first. What was the big hurry, in other
> > words.
> >
> >      But let's revisit Nov. 17, 1997, when nobody
> > else in Washington except the Inside the Beltway
> > column led with an item headlined, "Finish the
> > mission."
> >
> >      "Debate on whether to take out Saddam Hussein,
> > the Iraqi strongman, is over as far as one
> > Democratic senator is concerned," or so we had
> > written.
> >
> >      "Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts is calling
> > for a 'strong' military attack in response to the
> > Iraqi leader's 'horrific objective of amassing a
> > stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.'B "
> >
> >      Weapons of mass destruction? That's what Mr.
> > Kerry called them.
> >
> >      "As the senator points out, military might is
> > the only language Saddam knows B and fears. 'Saddam
> > Hussein should pay a grave price, in a currency that
> > he understands and values, for his unacceptable
> > behavior,' says Mr. Kerry. 'This should not be a
> > strike consisting only of a handful of cruise
> > missiles hitting isolated targets primarily of
> > presumed symbolic value. But how long this military
> > action might continue and how it may escalate ...
> > and how extensive it would reach are for the [White
> > House National] Security Council and our allies to
> > know and for Saddam Hussein to find out!'B "
> >
> >      Just as you wished, Senator.
> >
>
>
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