[lbo-talk] Milliken: Why I'll vote for Kerry

[Carl Remick]

>From: snit snat <snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com>
>
>COMMENT: Milliken: Why I'll vote for Kerry
>
>October 19, 2004
>BY WILLIAM MILLIKEN
>
>
>... I have always been proud to be a Republican. ...
>Sadly, that is not the Republican Party I see at the
>national level today....
>
>... the basic premises upon which we were
>taken to war [in Iraq] proved to be false. Now we find ourselves
>in the midst of an occupation that was largely
>unplanned and has become a disaster from which we
>cannot easily extricate ourselves.
>
>My Republican Party is the party of Theodore
>Roosevelt, who fought to preserve our natural
>resources and environment. ...

Pretty selective view of Theodore Roosevelt, who was a conniver, warmonger 
and imperialist par excellent and would probably have been giddy with 
delight about GWB's war on Iraq.

Carl