Michael Moore was the person most hated by the Bush WH,

[Ken Burch]

23. If we were going to keep the Iraq War going, BCCI was meaningless.

I'll agree that the McAuliffe and Clinton did their worst...but Kerry could have overcome that by running as the man he was in '71...the man of peace, courage, and the dream of a better world...instead of being the capitulationist candidate of "nuance&quot which just meant doing whatever Bush or his handlers would have done, but with better manners).

In running on a "we can do it better" program on foreign policy, Kerry gave up on changing anything in the world for the better, AND on challenging corporate power. And he gave up on engaging with the tens of millions who were ready to fight for a real alternative to the status quo.

What mattered was the war and the Patriot Act...compared to those, anything else was trivial. We couldn't HAVE a progressive presidency if the war was kept going...as the last six years have proved.

BCCI was ONLY going to affect Bush the First, it wasn't going to do anything to Dubya or any other Republican. Everyone implicated in BCCI was part of the past and would never be in politics again. BCCI wasn't going to turn the damn world upside down, any more than Watergate did.

It's not possible to be anti-corporate and think that ending the war and repealing the Patriot Act ASAP were less important than BCCI.



We should have embraced Medea Benjamin and the peace movement, not the Beltway hawks.