Voters Have Spoken
More than a year ago, Senators Kerry and Finegold followed the lead of Congressman Murtha by calling for a withdrawal 0f our troops from Iraq. Russ Finegold said: "This is building, and the American people are actually way ahead of the Senate on this."
They described the war in Iraq as a mistake and dismissed concerns of other Democrats, who claimed that setting a fixed date would leave those in a tough re-election fights open to Republican taunts that they are "cutting and running". John Kerry’s responded: “voters can sense when you're being resolute for convenience sake, or for political advantage."
Republican strategist were delighted with Kerry’s proposal to redeploy our troops. They were certain it would lead to Democrats being defeated in November and allow them to declare themselves the party of unity and strength.
Nevertheless, Senator Kerry characterized his statement as the position of strength, and told Democrats they were making a mistake by not taking a firm stand. Kerry insisted: "As far as I'm concerned, we should go right at Karl Rove and his phony tough talk that is calculated purely for the election and not for a successful strategy in Iraq. I'm doing what I think is the right thing to do as a policy matter for our troops and for the country. What's clear is that it was the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time. I couldn't have been clearer about the president mishandling the war. One thing the Democrats agree on is that this war has taken too long, is too expensive and has cost too many lives.”
Voters looked at how Republican’s were handling the war in Iraq and made their voices heard on election day. The overriding issue in the mid-term election was that Bush got us into Iraq and that the commander in chief hadn’t figured out a strategy that will show light at the end of the tunnel. Stay the course, by any other name is no longer acceptable and it’s the responsibility of every member of Congress to find a way out of Iraq.
They described the war in Iraq as a mistake and dismissed concerns of other Democrats, who claimed that setting a fixed date would leave those in a tough re-election fights open to Republican taunts that they are "cutting and running". John Kerry’s responded: “voters can sense when you're being resolute for convenience sake, or for political advantage."
Republican strategist were delighted with Kerry’s proposal to redeploy our troops. They were certain it would lead to Democrats being defeated in November and allow them to declare themselves the party of unity and strength.
Nevertheless, Senator Kerry characterized his statement as the position of strength, and told Democrats they were making a mistake by not taking a firm stand. Kerry insisted: "As far as I'm concerned, we should go right at Karl Rove and his phony tough talk that is calculated purely for the election and not for a successful strategy in Iraq. I'm doing what I think is the right thing to do as a policy matter for our troops and for the country. What's clear is that it was the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time. I couldn't have been clearer about the president mishandling the war. One thing the Democrats agree on is that this war has taken too long, is too expensive and has cost too many lives.”
Voters looked at how Republican’s were handling the war in Iraq and made their voices heard on election day. The overriding issue in the mid-term election was that Bush got us into Iraq and that the commander in chief hadn’t figured out a strategy that will show light at the end of the tunnel. Stay the course, by any other name is no longer acceptable and it’s the responsibility of every member of Congress to find a way out of Iraq.
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