Kerry concedes rationale for the war
Friday, September 17th, 2004John Kerry’s speech at the National Guard’s annual convention yesterday has been widely reported as a scathing attack on Bush administration policy in Iraq. Kerry said the President “didn’t tell you that with each passing week, our enemies are actually getting bolder - that Pentagon officials report that entire regions of Iraq are now in the hands of terrorists and extremists.”
This, of course, is precisely the lie that Bush has been trying to sell us since before the beginning of the war: that Iraq is the latest front in his so-called War on Terror, and that Iraqi resistance to U.S. aggression is terrorism. Kerry has thus conceded the single largest proposition, and the biggest lie, of the Bush campaign. All he can do now, is quibble about the details.
