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“Kerry’s Past is Key to His Future”
(
Robert Scheer - L.A. Times 8/3/04)
Questions and Answers are cited below as
“Q” and “A”
1.
Q: Why do I focus on this article?
A: Because it
finds in Kerry’s painstakingly careful
choices, albeit accompanied by change of mind from time to time, –should enable
the U.S. to elect a real alternative to the Bush failed militarism.
2.
Q: What is that alternative?
A: As stated in
the above-cited article, Kerry’s ability to change his mind while stating
truths for patriotic reasons, should
enable Kerry as president at this particular juncture of national militarism
failure to provide just what the nation now needs in its president.
3.
Q: How do you arrive at that conclusion?
A: As the
annexed article states: “If Kerry can adhere to the integrity he displayed at
key moments in his life” (specified
in the article) “he could be the man to end U.S. isolation on Iraq and
rally the world toward cooperative solutions.”
“This would undermine the recruitment of terrorists, rather than
inadvertently increasing it, as Bush has clearly done.
4.
Q: Is there any particular caution to take with
this recipe?
A: Yes. To follow that recipe, Kerry “must be Kerry
the hero and patriot who came back from Viet Nam and risked his future to
expose the folly of a stupid and doomed war –not merely an echo for Bush’s
militarism.”
5.
Q: What more does Kerry’s recipe include?
A: “How timely
to re-read that testimony now, after the current U.S. administration so under appreciated the threat Al Quaeda
posed before 9/11 and so over-played the threat Saddam Hussein posed to the
U.S. afterward.”
“Unfortunately, the paranoia that young Kerry warned against is now a
staple of the Bush reelection campaign, and Kerry must meet it head-on.”
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cc: George W.
Bush, President
Richard Cheney, Vice President
John Kerry, Senator - Massachusetts
Colin Powell, Secretary of State
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of
Defense
Condoleezza Rice, National Security
Advisor
Colonel Oliver North
Tom Ridge, Secretary of Homeland
Security
John
Ashcroft, U.S. Attorney General
Tony
Blair, Prime Minister of Great Britain
Jack
Straw, British Foreign Secretary
Newt
Gingrich, Former Speaker of the
U.S. House of Representatives
Ariel
Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel
Benjamin
Netanyahu, Economy Minister
for the Israeli Government
Israel’s “Women In Green”
National Unity Coalition for Israel
Arianna Huffington, Syndicated
Columnist
Oriana Fallaci, International Journalist,
Interviewer and Author
Yohanan Ramati, Chairman, Jerusalem
Institute
for Western Defense
Gerardo Joffe, FLAME (Facts & Logic
About the
Middle East)
Mortimer Zuckerman, Editor in Chief -
US News and World Report
Time Magazine
Washington
Post - Attn: Bob Woodward
International
Jerusalem Post
The
Weekly Standard – Bill Kristol,
Editor
The
Wall Street Journal - Editorial and
Op-Ed Department
Robert
Sheer, Los Angeles Times,
Op-Ed
Department