Reply #16: I am disappointed with Kerry's position on Iraq [View All]

[Snellius]

Even when it's perfectly obvious that the reasons for going to war were bogus, that we are not fighting but fostering terrorism in the Islamic world, that we have basically lost an unwinable war, to persist in stubbornly supporting the occupation is part of the same "peace with honor", "we're not quitters", "my country right or wrong", "love it or leave" insanity that kept us in Vietnam long after everyone knew it was a futile dead end. Kerry, as much as Bush, is so afraid of not being seen as a super-patriot that they can't admit any mistake.