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The Election Draws Nigh
Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2004 - 11:22 AM
I think it's important for my American readers who may not read the news that often to get snippets of opinion (and they're just that, most of the time, opinion) on this election. That's why I post so much political content. Many of you are gather information from the left bias and I think it's important that you see the other side. I try only to include what I find to be very important articles -- probably 1 or 2% of the political articles I actually read. Many of the articles end in open-ended questions for you to think about and decide which way you lean in the matter. It's a loss for everyone involved -- including the winning candidate -- if Americans go to the polls without seeing the pros and cons of both candidates and seeing how they related to your bliefs.
============================= Kerry Goes 'A Nuance Too Far'
By John Gibson Remember that World War II movie "A Bridge Too Far?" John Kerry may have given us the Iraq war movie "A Nuance Too Far." Kerry says he would still vote to authorize the war in Iraq even if he had known then what he knows now � namely that weapons of mass destruction would not be found and that the Al Qaeda-Iraq connections wouldn't be as strong as he would have liked. He still would have voted to authorize the war because a president needs that authority, but he wouldn't have carried the war out as Bush did. He kind of left unanswered if he would have invaded Iraq, but he forcefully condemned what he thinks was a clear lack of a plan to win the peace, and the fact that American troops didn't have sufficient armored Humvees early in the post-war. But the overall picture is a guy who would have done the same as Bush, except in the details. Does this mean the Howard Dean end of the Democratic Party � the anti-war crowd � does this mean they now do not have a major candidate? Does it mean they have to vote for Ralph Nader and in the process help Bush? I thought this was supposed to be an election about Bush and his decisions and his judgment. So what's it about now? Vote for the guy who did the war the way he did it, or vote for the guy who would have done the war differently? This, my friends, is what they put in the dictionary when they define nuance. That's My Word.
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