hylandrdet said:
Except in this election in poll after poll Foreign relations has been the hot topic, and while Kerry won the debate battle, it appears that Bush is winning the war no this one.
Either Kerry is the stupidest man in the Senate or he is being disingenuous here. None of the Democrats were "shocked" that he went quickly into war, and until the debates in the Primaries Kerry was all for the war. It wasn't until the polls indicated that in order to get the Party nod that he had to be anti-war that he began the shift.
Kerry, once again this point, was all for the war until polls indicated that he would not get the DNC nod with a pro-war stance, he then began a shift that began with too fast and ended with "wrong war, wrong place, wrong time" it is simply disingenuous to believe he didn't know Bush would take us to war. Then to give his approval stamp again and again until the Primaries just makes me see this man is willing to say or do anything in order to get the power he wants to have.
Undeniably there are more people in the service that want Bush in than want Kerry. There was an article and thread that stated that, but having no choice does not mean that they will stay in. I specifically did not re-up when asked because of Clinton, the same will happen for Kerry. It is no wonder the Democrats want the draft, they will get nobody in the Service otherwise.
Except they have undeniably already said that even with his "bribe" of oil they will not help in Iraq. Unmistakably making it clear his intention to make this a "war for oil" he offered to give them access to the oil fields if they would help in Iraq. The UN is already in Iraq preparing for the elections, but there will be no significant "UN Force" that will enter Iraq as they have made it clear that they are unwilling.
Sucking up to the UN? You didn't hear the speech obviously, he made it clear that he expects an International group to back up their resolutions and that he believed that they were shirking their duties.
The UN was becoming ineffective in Iraq in so many ways, not the least of which the bribes in the Duelfer report that were paid to officials in France, Germany, and Russia in order to insure that the Sanctions would not continue. The Sanctions were coming to an end and Iraq would have the free reign that they needed in order to continue their grab for WMD. The only effective part of the Sanctions was the fact that US military was there to back it up, thank the gods for that.
While I don't agree with the timing of the war in Iraq, or that we should have gone there it is clear that Kerry's plan is simply "I will do what Bush does, but will get even less allies because I have already insulted every one that we currently have and made it clear that nobody should send troops to a quagmire that is the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time. I intend to bribe people that have already said they will not be bribed or even tempted by my bribe, but most people in the US will miss that fact."
The Polish will be voting on whether to continue in Iraq in January, they have already spoken about Kerry's irresponsible insults to their sacrifice in Iraq. If Kerry is voted in, there is one ally already poised to leave this coalition of the Insulted and Degraded.
