In the past few weeks, a murmer has been growing across the blogosphere that should John Kerry defeat George Bush in November, he is likely to “stay the course” in Iraq and the greater war on Islamic fascism. The comforting argument is this; despite their differences, when it comes to fundamentals about national security and foreign policy, a Bush vs Kerry administration is a Coke Vs Pepsi debate.
Now that you’ve been properly seduced…
In an interview broadcast Wednesday morning, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry defended terrorist Shiite imam Muqtada al-Sadr as a “legitimate voice” in Iraq, despite that fact that he’s led an uprising that has killed nearly 20 American GIs in the last two days.
Speaking of al-Sadr’s newspaper, which was shut down by coalition forces last week after it urged violence against U.S. troops, Kerry complained to National Public Radio, “They shut a newspaper that belongs to a legitimate voice in Iraq.”
In the next breath, however, the White House hopeful caught himself and quickly changed direction. “Well, let me … change the term ‘legitimate.’ It belongs to a voice – because he has clearly taken on a far more radical tone in recent days and aligned himself with both Hamas and Hezbollah, which is a sort of terrorist alignment.”
Yeah. No difference at all, really.
Hat tip – Inoperable Terran
update- Hugh Hewitt covers the non-coverage of this in the big media
This election is about the war.�Yesterday Kerry said a lot of things about the war, some outrageous, some incoherent, some contradicting other statements he has made.� Voters have a right to hear or read Kerry on the crucial subject, even if pro-Kerry reporters and editors suspect that these quotes may not go down well with the public. The Kerry interviews were not hard to come by. I had them and had transcribed and posted the key excerpts by 2:30 PM Pacific time yesterday. No wonder Americans don’t trust the media.� A combination of terrible news judgment, laziness, and bias has infected the coverage of the election, and there’s no excusing this failure on the part of the “objective press.”