Trudy Rubin blasts Bushco on Iraq and Terrorism: advises Kerry to focus

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A scathing column from an old middle-east hand. Goes through a number of lies (yes, she uses that word) that can and should be clearly debunked if Kerry is to get his message across.

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/9699218.htm

Posted on Sun, Sep. 19, 2004

Worldview | To win, Kerry must keep focus on terrorism fight

By Trudy Rubin


An Iraqi friend in Egypt told me a chilling story last week.

The Iraqi Embassy in Cairo is still full of Baathist leftovers from Fallujah and Tikrit who have been lying low as they've watched Iraq descend into chaos. But now these Baathists are openly exulting that things are going so badly for the Americans that they may be able to make a comeback.

The fact that leftovers from Saddam Hussein could have reason to cheer is chilling. Yet President Bush tells us, "Our strategy is succeeding." And John Kerry has so far been unable to demolish the President's claim that Americans are safer after one Bush term.

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Iraqi government officials tell me privately that the United States still isn't sufficiently supplying their fighters. One senior official complained bitterly: "We begged them right after the war not to destroy Saddam's armored vehicles and heavy weapons because we would need them for the new Iraqi army. But we were told the marching orders were coming from Washington to destroy them. Now we can't get such weapons."

White House incompetence in Iraq is blatant. The issue is not, as Dick Cheney would have it, whether a vote for Kerry is a vote for Osama bin Laden. The issue is whether a vote for the team that messed up Iraq is a vote that will make bin Laden cheer.

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Made us safer? Bush? The case against this fiction is a slam dunk. So make it, candidate Kerry. Then we can have a serious presidential contest.

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1. bush = dumb, dumber, dumbest

the only that worries me is that vast numbers of americans appear to be even dumber than bush.
sigh.