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06/18/2003 Archived Entry: "Helen Thomas has a point."
Helen Thomas has a point.
The Democrats have a re-election-killer in their pockets, if they have the guts to use it.
Democratic presidential aspirants might have a monumental issue for their 2004 campaign against President George W. Bush -- if they don't go wobbly. It's based on growing doubts that Bush was on the level when he tried to whip up public support for a U.S. attack on Iraq by claiming that the Saddam Hussein regime had a huge arsenal of weapons of mass destruction.
It's a question of presidential credibility and reflects on the character of the American people and the country.
Understandably, the Democrats may calculate that voters will always rally to the commander-in-chief in wartime.
And, like columnists, they should always recognize the possibility that those weapons will eventually be found.
But that should not stop them from raising the question of whether Bush initiated the Iraq war on the basis of possibly flawed, politicized or flimsy information.
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This is why I'm such a big supporter of Howard Dean. He's the only *major* candidate with a chance to win that has been consistently against the invasion, and also has been bringing up this very issue in his stump speeches.
It's not like Kerry or Gephardt or Edwards or Leiberman can start speaking out against it heavily because they helped authorize it.
Posted by Jason @ 06/18/2003 10:27 AM NY
It's worth pointing out (though of course I'm preaching to the choir here) that 'moderate' and 'appeasing' do not describe the way Repubs got power of EVERYTHING, though those adjectives do describe Gore's disasterous tactical mistakes in his campaign. Result: the incumbancy candidate of unprecedented peace and prosperity lost to a lifetime loser who's rapidly destroying the world. (The wizardry of Rove et. al. has just been to sell this destruction as something else entirely.)
So we've tried the wobbly approach, and we're living the results.
Posted by Factchecker @ 06/19/2003 12:40 PM NY
