W says Kerry's plan is"exactly what we're currently doing"-NO- just saying

[papau]

Mr. Bush claims that Mr. Kerry's plan to secure and rebuild Iraq is "exactly what we're currently doing." No, it isn't. It's only what Mr. Bush is currently saying.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/24/opinion/24krugman.html

Let's Get Real
By PAUL KRUGMAN

Never mind the inevitable claims that John Kerry is soft on terrorism. What he must address is the question of how his policy in Iraq would differ from President Bush's. And his answer should be that unlike Mr. Bush, whose decisions have been dictated at every stage by grandiose visions and wishful thinking, he will get real - focusing on what is really possible in Iraq, and what needs to be done to protect American security.

Mr. Bush claims that Mr. Kerry's plan to secure and rebuild Iraq is "exactly what we're currently doing." No, it isn't. It's only what Mr. Bush is currently saying. And we have 18 months of his administration's deeds to contrast with his words.

The actual record is one of officials who have refused to admit that their fantasies about how the war would go were wrong, and who have continued to push us ever deeper into the quagmire because of their insistence that everything is going according to plan.

There has been a lot of press coverage of the administration's failure to do anything serious about rebuilding Iraq. Less attention has been given to its parallel failure to take the security problem seriously until much of Iraq had already been lost.

Long after it was obvious to everyone else that we were engaged in an escalating guerrilla war, Bush appointees clung to the belief that they were fighting a handful of dead-enders and foreign terrorists. <snip>

[Inland]

1. Love how Krugman

brings up the difference between Bush's stated policies and the actions, the hopes and the realities.

The Bush campaign has nothing to do with reality. Its a sugarcoated lie.

[papau]

2. I agree - and I an very tired of our media not speaking to this fact.

:-(

[Inland]

3. With the media simply reporting "he says, she says"

without ever calling anyone out on the truth--under the guise of evenhandedness--Bush is in his element. His lies are treated the same way as Kerry's truth.

[Envisioned]

4. Kerry and allies

So I'm wondering what you guys think about Kerry's stance that the US is in Iraq alone.

Also, I'm curious what you folks think about France's recent declaration of terms under which they are willing to support us.