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Originally posted by sgtclub
Forget about the substance of the post for a minute. Why would you suggest we take a risk on Kerry?
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We're taking a risk on either Bush or Kerry. Even if you think that Bush has the right foreign-policy inclinations -- and I don't -- he keeps screwing things up. E.g., reasonable minds can differ about whether invading Iraq was the right thing to do, but not without a plan.
On the criticisms of Kerry, I think Republicans like to tell themselves that 9/11 changed everything, but that Democrats didn't get the message. As we've discussed ad nauseum on this board, Bush plainly did not give much attention to the threat posed by Al Qaeda before 9/11. Y'all give him credit, not unreasonably, for changing his priorities thereafter. Yet you look at Kerry's record before 9/11 and pretend that he would go back to that time. I understand why this is appealing as propaganda, but if you really believe it then you're not being serious.
