Reply #17: Good point! But I am well aware Edwards (and Hillary) voted for... [View All]

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the war resolution, something I hold against neither candidate: history demonstrates beyond any doubt that aggressive defense against the nearly 1400-year-old menace of Jihadist terrorism is essential to the survival of American liberty and Western Civilization. Thus I assume the good intentions of Edwards, Clinton and most of the other Democrats who so voted -- especially as it now becomes ever more apparent they were deliberately and thoroughly duped by the Bush/Goebbels Big Lie.

Bottom line -- and I have no doubt I will be resoundingly flamed for this -- the initial opposition to the Iraq War (and much of the subsequent hostility toward Edwards, Clinton et al) was/is knee-jerk pacifism: an affliction that has cost the Democratic Party ruinous losses of votes since the aftermath of Vietnam, an ideology that whether as a Leftist or a Regular Army veteran I cannot possibly embrace.

Based on what was known at the time, the pro-war votes of Edwards, Kerry, Clinton and others were wholly justified: Bush deceived Congress just as brazenly as LBJ did 40 years ago with the wholly manufactured, wholly bogus Gulf of Tonkin incident.

As to Kerry's connection to the DLC, Google "dlc kerry" and scroll thoroughly: it has been my contention since 2004 that Kerry's elitist indifference to the ongoing and deliberate disempowerment of America's working families and poor -- an indifference obviously mandated by the capitalism-can-do-no-wrong ideology of the DLC -- is what cost Kerry the votes that would have overcome the election fraud in Ohio and elsewhere.