If this is true, it is a sad, sad attempt by the Kerry-Edwards campaign to compensate for Edwards’ lack of foreign policy experience:
Tentative plans are being discussed inside the Kerry-Edwards campaign to send vice-presidential candidate John Edwards to Iraq as soon as possible.
Edwards has not gone to Iraq since the U.S. invasion last year. His visit there would be designed to try to fill the senator’s lack of experience in national security policy. It also would provide the campaign with photo opportunities showing Edwards in close contact with U.S. troops in Iraq.
Before he announced his presidential candidacy last year, Edwards declared aggressive action against Iraq was needed because weapons of mass destruction were there. Like John Kerry, Edwards voted for the war resolution but against the $87 billion bill funding the conflict.
Before 2000 Bush had ventured out of the United States exactly once. He doesn’t seem to have had a lot of foreign policy experience either.
Jay – but this is about Edwards. Maybe we’ll get a cool photo out of this visit like the one with the soldier giving the finger behind his back while shaking hands with Hillary!
There are two Marine bases an Air Force base, and a large Army base in eastern North Carolina. How do the counties where they are located vote?
you can’t blame a leader for believing the words of the ultimate leader now can you?
Todd. Huh? Lost me on that one.
You’re right, Kerry sucks. I mean absolutely, he just blows. I hope that pussy doesn’t try to pull us out of Iraq before we can finish the job. I believe strongly in everything you say on your site but it’s kind of weird that you haven’t enlisted in the army like I did. This is a crucial time in our nation’s history and I for one have enlisted to help our fighting soldiers and conquer evil. I know that you as a good American will do the same. http://www.goarmy.com
Doug
Doug, where are you stationed? I’m currently doubting you are who you say you are because I’ve met many people in the military, several who have been to Iraq, and none of them ever make any pushes for me or anyone to enlist.
Hey Doug – I was a Marine. Little too old and fat now, Whats your MOS?
Dougie….Come on!!! Why does someone have to enlist to support a cause? There is a difference between voluntarily enlisting and dodging a draft. If you want to complain about draft dodging go over and post on Clinton’s blog
If Bush can become in your eyes not only the greatest president in American history but also the the greatest human being to walk the face of the earth when his foreign experience consisted of going to Scotland for one vacation in 54 years, then I don’t see where you can criticize Edwards.
Edwards has great hair and looks young–isn’t that what Dan Quayle was hired for? And while he looks and acts like good ole boy, Cheney looks like one of those Bond villains who says “[i]No Mister Bond, I expect you to die![/i]“
I’m referring to the non-public briefing the President gave the congressmen and senators about the scary Iraqi drones that could fly across the ocean and hit the shores of the US with chemical weapons. The weapons that never existed. So Edwards loyally trusted his President’s words.
Whether Bush had the requisite number of trips to qualify or not, it is a certainty that one trip to Iraq will do zilch to bolster Edwards’ experience. It’s a photo-op, pure and simple, and a strange one at that. Maybe they’ll let him ride in a tank …
He’s a politicion. Photo-ops are a way of life to them.
Come on Matt. I liked it better when you ranted about Air America. Neither you nor Blogs For Bush cared much about Edwards until he became the DNC’s VP choice. Why is it that all you wrote about was Dean before Kerry took over and now Edwards is taking most of your heat? It doesn’t feel like you care either way. You just want to trash the big faces in the Democratic party not because they are bad people but instead because they are popular in the news. It just seems so cheap.
Adam, if you expect Kerry and Edwards to throw punches at Bush and no punches are going to be thrown back then you’re a fool. You don’t win a fight just by blocking.
Secondly, with Edwards now on the ticket, for anyone to ignore him because he wasn’t previously a target because he had no chance of getting the nomination is also stupid.
You target those who target you.
I could ask you the question why during the primaries so much time was spent by all 9 of the dems attacking Bush, as opposed to genuine debate amongst themselves so that Dem voters could pick the best Dem (if there such a thing) as opposed to the strongest bush hater.
Well, I agree with your overall idea in the debate. I disagree with line about not winning a fight by just blocking though if I may digress a bit. I am a fan of the non-violence movement myself and a fan of Gandhi. I’ll hold off just a bit though after this comment to see if I get attacked with any Mark Noonanish anti-war slams. It just feels cheap to me to attack the character of people like you’ve hated them forever just because they are popular now. I agree with you though a little more after you explained yourself.
As for the Dem primaries, I went grassroots for Kucinich. I couldn’t stand the amount of time spent on attacking Bush instead of hitting the issues. Look where it got them. They are choosing the Dem who is weakest on the issues. Don’t think I’m in love with those stupid assholes. I’m not a fan of either branch of the Business Party.
To follow up, I guess I just wish that we would keep up discourse which wasn’t just hating on each other. Every side claims to want to hit the issues but instead they just end up bashing the other guy. It’s really stupid to me.
it be great to have this be able issues only, but the reality is, when you get attacked, you have to respond. people ask me occasionaly why B4B attacks kerry and/or edwards.. well, they’ve all been attack Bush since before Bush fired up his own campaign.
Now I know everybody will hate on me, but I really love Ralph Nader’s analogy of politics to baseball. People don’t focus as much on the rhetoric of baseball as they do on the stats and the actions of the players in the game. Nader believes that people interested in politics could learn a lot from that approach. You can’t deny that politics would be better if we all could just focus on what each politician does and how they vote, not where they were when they were supposed to be in Texas, who did what with the medals, or who owns what pickle company. Its ridicules and nonsensical, and I hope that eventually if enough of us fight for it, we can bring it back down to the raw levels that it needs to be on and stop focusing more on the TV than the actual facts.
Wellll, I see Doug in the Army didn’t reply. So – I guess his MOS is 0101 Lying piece of liberal crap.
By the way – what was FDR or Trummans previous foreign experience? Truth is – We are not talking about 2000 Bush we are talking about 2004 Bush. And, he’s quite a lot of experience actually.