Marine declares war on Bush

[roguevalley]

Marine declares war on Bush
Iraq war veteran Steve Brozak is running hard for Congress. And he's turning his campaign into a referendum on Bush's military folly.

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By Michelle Goldberg

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Sept. 30, 2004 | Steve Brozak is running for Congress in New Jersey against George W. Bush. Sure, his opponent on the ticket is Republican incumbent Mike Ferguson. But as Brozak sees it, Ferguson is just a synecdoche for the Bush team, whose failings drove Brozak out of the Marines and the Republican Party and into the first political campaign of his life.

"The bottom line is I'm going to take him down," Brozak says of Ferguson. "I'm just going to keep hitting at him. This is a national race because I'm going to start hitting not just him but his boss. They lied to us, they misled us about what was at stake in the war with Iraq, and they're misleading us about what is going to happen going forward."

A candidate who has actually served in the Middle East during the Iraq war, Brozak has seen the quagmire up close. A dark-haired, broad-shouldered man, he has a deep, authoritative voice and enunciates crisply -- it's easy to imagine him in uniform, barking orders. When he speaks of the Bush administration, though, it's with the stunned incredulousness of one who's seen all his assumptions about the world upended. Before the war, Brozak says, he wanted to believe his president. It barely occurred to him not to. Now, his voice gets heated when he talks about Iraq, which is the subject he talks about most. "There were no weapons of mass destruction," he says. "There was no planning, just this sense of arrogance and contempt by the civilians in this administration."

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Influential Democrats have already thrown their weight behind Brozak. His campaign team, says Rebovich, "are first-class people in New Jersey." The DNC gave him a speaking slot at the convention. Former presidential candidate Wesley Clark has campaigned for him. Last week, MoveOn.org chose him as one of five antiwar congressional candidates to raise money for, and they've already collected more than $100,000 for him. Veterans of the Clark and the Howard Dean movements in New Jersey are mobilizing for him.

rest of article here:

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/09/30/brozak/index.html

[Cha]

1. You just never know when the

Angels are gonna show..thank you, Steve Brozak!O8)

[Renew Deal]

2. Clark and Dean people in NJ.

Studs. Those are good people to have on your side.

[ozymandius]

3. How do you circle the wagons when they're already gone?

How can Bush co-opt a military message when so many wearing a military uniform despise him? Who would have thought that forty-four years after Eisenhower left office that former military would wear Dem colors?

It must be getting awfully lonely in that ivory tower Bush has made for himself.

[tanyev]

4. Oh, darn.

I thought your title said "Marines declare war on Bush". :evilgrin: