Bush: "Kerry can't win war." Kerry: "Mr. President, look behind you."

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Oct. 20: President Bush said Wednesday that his opponent misunderstands the battle “against insurgents and terrorists in Iraq.” NBC’s Bob Kur reports.

"Senator Kerry's top foreign policy advisors question whether this is even a war at all. Here's what he said, and I quote: "We're mot in a war on terror in a literal sense. It is like saying "The War On Poverty," it is just a metaphor (laughs), end quote. Confusing food programs with terrorist killings reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of the war we face and that...is...very...dangerous...thinking."

http://video.msn.com/video/p.htm?t=1&p=News_Politics&i=e61e6ad4-34f1-4ce2-a79a-eb102cf931f6



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6288142/

Kerry questioned whether Bush is the exemplary leader he claims to be, pointing to the war as evidence that he is not.

“Mr. President, look behind you. look behind you. It’s not leadership if we haven’t built the strongest alliance possible and if America is almost alone,” Kerry said to supporters in Waterloo.

Kerry also promised to reverse mistakes he says Bush made in Iraq, and he said that “the president’s failures in Iraq have made us weaker, not stronger, in the war on terrorism.”

[RobertSeattle]

1. Bush DEMORALIZES troops!

"Says Can't Win War on Terror"

...Would be the (D)rudge Headline if there was one...

[Triana]

2. 1. EVERY war this country has ever won...

..was executed by a DEMOCRAT. The ones we lost were executed by Republicans (VietNam, Iraq).

2. This isn't about winning a war. RE: PNAC. It's about world domination, power, oil, and controlling all the world's resources for the benefit of the US at the expense of all else...has nothing to do with winning any war - on terror or otherwise.

[tritsofme]

4. Blame for Vietnam can't fall only into the GOP's hands

It was a group effort in a lesson of fucking up, and it looks like we took nothing away from it.

I place most of the blame for the escalation and death of 50,000+ in the hands of LBJ.

I doubt Kerry will be any more successful in Iraq if he "stays the course"

We need to declare victory and leave.

[AndyTiedye]

5. Bushco is doing a pretty sorry job of World Domination Too

We invade a defenseless country whose government has little public support
over a year later we're bogged down in a quagmire there, having lost 1100 troops
and seen countless more injured, with no end in sight. We can't even steal their
oil, because the pipelines keep on getting blown up. Nobody wants to listen to
us anymore, we are seen as a pariah state. Nobody wants to buy our stuff either!

Under Clinton, we pretty much WERE dominating the world, between the sheer
economic force of our then-booming economy, and the desirability of our lifestyle.

[kayell]

3. it is just a metaphor (laughs),

* playing to his base*. Metaphor is one of them thar inter-lec-tu-all lib'rul words that only a total high-falutin' snob would use. None of us all unerstan' it anyways, so it must be jus' plain stupid lib'rul foolishness.

*that would be his other base, the poor fools that think they are his base. As opposed to his real base - the haves and have-mores.