Guilt?
By: in Politics on April 30, 2004 - 12:32 pm
Does….. John Kerry have blood on his hands? The Federalist weighs in….
“Though our national resolve has not been undermined (yet), the ascension of presumed Demo-nominee John Kerry could change all that. Kerry is shamelessly calling into question the wartime leadership of President Bush, protesting our mission in Iraq with a fervor akin to that with which he protested our mission in Vietnam three decades ago. The danger, of course, is that his protests today have emboldened Iraqi insurgents in places like Fallujah and Najaf — just as his protests more than 30 years ago emboldened the Viet Cong in places like Dong Ap Bia.
The cost of Kerry’s political folly is tallied not only in Demo-campaign donations, but in flag-draped caskets returning from the Iraqi and Afghan warfronts with Jihadistan — much as the costs of his protests in the 1970s were tallied in flag-draped caskets returning from the Vietnamese warfront with Communism.
In the 15 months since the coalition’s invasion of Iraq, 736 American service personnel have been killed. But more than a fourth of those troops have been killed in just the last two months — a period coinciding with the end of the Democrat presidential primary. What, you ask, is our point? Merely that this is precisely the moment when John Kerry’s dissenting views on our mission in Iraq became the central focus of his political campaign — as broadcast around the world.”
