[lbo-talk] Kerry the pro-war candidate?

[Steven L. Robinson]

So you think Kerry is going to "cut and run" from Iraq if he gets elected?
His advisors will tell him that if he does, the Republicans will blame him
and the Democrats for "losing Iraq."  He won't do it. If LBJ was afraid of
the GOP doing something like that to him over Vietnam in the mid 1960s, the
highwater mark of post World War II liberalism, what do you think a DLC
influenced President like Kerry would have the guts to do that now?  Wishful
thinking. Of course, you left out the undeniable fact that many liberals and
progressives would like desert the anti-war movement in the event of a Kerry
election. We will start seeing articles in the Nation about how the war in
Iraq is something we can believe in and Move on.org will likely move onto
something else .... Steve
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> I think he's probably throwing this "40,000" figure around just to show
> the voters he's a big, tough hombre -- a real veteran, unlike Bush.
> It's a question of which candidate is more macho; this will happen in
> every campaign until we get a female candidate, and even then ... Look
> at Thatcher, for instance.
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