Krugman: Note To Kerry: Attack On Iraq!

[G_j]

Note To Kerry: Attack On Iraq
by Paul Krugman, The New York Times

Krugman wants to fire any Kerry aides advising caution on attacking the President on his foreign failures.

http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/#001851

[brentspeak]

1. Amen

And Kerry also needs to attack ruthlessly on Bush's AWOL performance prior to 9/11. Good grief, he's barely done that. Why isn't the DNC on message about this?

[faithfulcitizen]

12. & Hallelujah!

this is his STRONGEST arguement for crying out loud! He also needs to talk about HIS plan- Please, Wes, help us on this one!!!!

[WiseMen]

2. Dead on Target. But Kerry Needs to Call War Summit and Announce His Team

of surrogates to officially hammer Bush on issues of War and Terror.
Only a few, only the best, only the most respected, only those willing
to be smeared by Rove.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x804299

[PROGRESSIVE1]

11. Yes he does! Kerry needs to get his offical defense team in place....

and let them war with *.

[WEagle]

13. an excellent idea

he would then be seen as pro-active.

[Voltaire99]

3. Time's running out. Maybe Edwards should take over.

Kerry hasn't demonstrated either the vision or the spine for what Krugman proposes.

I expect Dean could have done so. And Edwards probably could.

[Seabiscuit]

4. BINGO FOR THE 4TH TIME TONIGHT!

Glad to see so many Du'ers coming together on the important issues. Kerry needs an infusion of guts and spine.

[BushOutNow]

5. Ditto!

I want to see a more fierce campaign too. Everyone does, nice guys finish last in politics I'm afraid. Truth is on our side too, we don't have to make anything up! W did us a favor there, we have plenty of "dirt", now fling it!

[Seabiscuit]

6. What we're flingin isn't "dirt".

It's simply the truth about Bush's record.

As contrasted to the Swiftboat Liar type campaign against Kerry's record.

Go for the jugular, JK, or lose!

[bossfish]

16. Oh, man don't say "ditto"....

That has a rather bad connotation here...(Rush)

By the way, welcome.

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. I'm with Krugman. It's time to bare your teeth and go in for the

kill. Do it intelligently, though. Not the way that Dole use to do it. What a nasty old man he is. When he comes on the air, you know he's lying.

[G_j]

8. yes, and we can help also

by continually trying to bring people's attention to the REAL situation in Iraq. I have also pledged to myself to write more LTTEs.
I have decided to focus less on directly or personally attacking Bush and more on bringing people's attention to the horrific tragedy on the ground in Iraq.
Afghanistan, which Bush pushes as a 'victory', is also falling apart.
I want people to see and understand what is really going on, perhaps then their common sense will begin to kick in.

[G_j]

9. Iraq: A Descent into Civil War?

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0915-01.htm

Published on Wednesday, September 15, 2004 by the Guardian/UK

Iraq: A Descent into Civil War?

by Luke Harding in Baghdad

Lying amid the debris strewn near Al-Karkh police station was the photo of a young man in a blue T-shirt. The passport snap had been part of his application to join Iraq's police force.

Yesterday, however, he and dozens of other recruits queueing outside the station in central Baghdad were blown to pieces by a car bomb. Near the photo, someone had heaped the shoes of the dead and injured into a neat pile.

The destruction from the suspected suicide blast which killed 47 people and injured 114 was everywhere: bits of metal, glass, a broken billiard table, a dead bird and pools of blood.

There was nothing left of the recruit in the photo.

..more..

[WEagle]

10. I agree !! nt

[G_j]

14. kick

[LittleClarkie]

15. He is, for pity's sake

He did on Imus just this morning.

He's been doing it steadily for that last couple of weeks.