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September 02, 2003

Asleep On the Left

Sen. Kerry, the man with executive-style^TM hair, just doesn't get it:

"I do not want more American troops in Iraq. I want foreign troops," said Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, who this week hopes to reenergize his campaign with a kickoff announcement in South Carolina on Tuesday. "We have to reduce the sense of American occupation. We have to take the target off of American troops."

Perhaps he missed the attack on the United Nations in Iraq. You can't get much more foreign than a bunch of foreigners. The enemy doesn't like the West, not just those flying the American flag. Hell, they don't even like other Iraqis.

Or is Sen. Kerry implying that more foreign soldiers should be targeted in place of Americans? How...dedicated of you, sir. We wanted this war. We won this war. It's up to us to win the peace. To do anything less is to shirk our responsibility to the people of Iraq (but, hey, if we did that now you'd be able to say that Bush broke his promise to them - a new campaign angle).

Kerry said he stood by his vote but faulted Bush for what he called "a rush to war."

"The difference is, I would have planned. I would have been patient. I would have worked with the United Nations," Kerry said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Apparently Sen. Kerry slept through the last twelve or so years of UN ineptitude in dealing with Iraq. Perhaps some of that magnificent hair is growing into his brain.