In the months before the 2004 presidential election, The Washington Post's Bob Woodward sought to interview Sen. John F. Kerry, the Democratic nominee, about how he might have conducted foreign policy in the 18 months between Sept. 11, 2001, and the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. For his book "Plan of Attack," Woodward had interviewed President Bush on how and why he made decisions during that same period. Woodward gave the Kerry campaign a list of 22 questions based on Bush's actions, asking how Kerry would have responded at each key decision point if he had been president. Kerry declined the interview at the time. More than a year later, on March 7, Kerry agreed to be interviewed by Woodward and answer the 22 questions.
Okay, Woodward interviewed John Kerry more than a year after the election. Why is the Washington Post just getting around to publishing this interview now?
Piling on? Well, okay, have at it.
Or were they afraid to publish something that so explicitly criticizes the chimperor until his polls were in the cellar?
One thing's clear, the contrast between the thoughtful way that John Kerry would approach a problem and chimpy's "I listen to my gut" nonsense is startling. What a clusterfuck the entire Bush presidency has been. As Kerry said at the end of the interview:
I think history is going to be very, very tough on not just the way the war has been managed, but on the way in which the decision to go to war was carried out. It's going to be a low moment . . . in the presidency in history.
History is going to be scathing, not just on the Iraq war, but on everything this president has touched. Everything.
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History is going to be scathing, not just on the Iraq war, but on everything this president has touched. Everything.
History is gonna be pretty damned scathing on the toothless democrats like John Kerry who only found their balls after it was clear public opinion had turned on this war.
Yes, the WaPo was afraid to publish this criticizm when Georgie W. was riding high, just as Kerry was afraid to make this criticizm at that time.
Would he have lit a fire under Democratic supporters if Kerry had said this in 2004? "What if" is a waste of time, besides being a cause of us tearing our hair in frustration.
Our country is sinking into a deeper mire of troubles than we have ever faced. Lincoln and FDR led us through the crises of their times. We then did not confront both war and growing fascism at home, plus the effects of global climate change, increasingly polluted air and water, and poisoned oceans.
Our good, brave young people are dying in Iraq and Afghanistan in Bush's War, for no reason but to pump up his image as a "war president." My heart hurts at the evil of these thugs who have corrupted our government and dirtied our public discourse.
Billmon posts complaints from GOP insiders who are worried that the White House has no plans for coping with a defeat on Nov.7th. Then he posts Chris Hedges worrying that the carrier U.S.S. Enterprise and its accompaniment of missle-bristling destroyers will arrive in the Persian Gulf around Oct. 21st. Just in time to drop a Halloween surprise on Iran.
Could Cheney and the Rovians be so insane as to start another war, thinking it would restart our patriotic fervor to vote Republican?
U.S.S.Eisenhower Eisenhower, Eisenhower … is on it's way to the Persian Gulf.
That's what comes from writing gloomy comments late at night.
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