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Soldier-Killer-in-Chief vs Soldier-Killer-in-Chief-wannabeAt a town-hall meeting in Orlando, Florida, a young Army reservist named Charity Thompson, recently returned from Iraq, told Democratic candidate John Kerry that she was having trouble getting medical care from the Veterans Administration. Her story, and her implicit anger about the war, was greeted with a vehement standing ovation. Kerry responded to the health-care point but stayed clear of the war. Later Thompson told a reporter, "I wanted to hear what he had to say about Iraq. I despise this war, and 99.9% of the people I served with feel the same way. We should bring our troops home now. I'd really like to know what Kerry thinks about that." Unfortunately for Thompson and everyone else stuck in Iraq, the awful truth is that Kerry wants to send MORE troops to Iraq. When the Abu-Ghraib scandal broke out, Kerry called for Rumsfeld to resign. But he said that John McCain, a Congressman from Arizona who wants to send more troops to Iraq, should be the new Pentagon boss. Kerry has also said that he would expand the active-duty Army by 40,000 troops to "help fight the war on terror." The only war Kerry can mean is the war in Iraq, and that's the only place those 40,000 troops are going to go. But he doesn't want to come out and say, "I want to send more troops to Iraq" because so many people want to vote against the war this November. The problem is, there is no anti-war candidate, no bring the troops home now candidate to vote for. The only way we can bring the troops home now by voting is by voting with our feet into the streets. Every moment spent campaigning for Kerry is a moment wasted on what doesn't work. Every moment spent trying to build the anti-war movement to put a fire under the feet of politicians from BOTH parties is one spent on what works. Building a movement to stop the war isn't going to be easy and it's not going to happen overnight, but it's the only winning strategy there is, and we can't afford to lose this fight. Page 14--> |
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