While I’ve been happily buried, editing a tome, racing to meet a deadline, so much has occurred in my absence. You would think the world would have the common decency to wait for me to keep up.
Kerry’s editorial in the Washington Post was a really something I did not want to hear from the “presumptive Democratic nominee for president.” Where does the Post get this kind of mealy-mouthed terminology? “Presumptive” … there was a day, many years ago when the Post strode with fearful might such that a President was reduced to abdication. (Lucky for him.) Still. Go figure.
Kerry put it in a nut shell and do note the following quote is part of a larger three paragraph thought:
… The best way to do that is to vest friends and allies in Iraq's future.On the economic front, that means giving them fair access to the multibillion-dollar reconstruction contracts. It also means letting them be a part of putting Iraq's profitable oil industry back together. In return, they must forgive Hussein's multibillion-dollar debts to their countries and pay their fair share of the reconstruction bill.
We should also give them a leadership role in pursuing our wider strategic goals in the region. …
“Friends and allies,” “them,” given a leadership role in “putting Iraq’s profitable oil industry back together.
Sounds like payola to me.
I am not happy.
Previously, I have noted some positive things Kerry has mentioned (go dig around for the one or two in my unorganized posts).
Still, I am not happy.
Kerry wants to ‘spread the wealth’ with a group of free loaders.
Not good politics from the presumptive nominee.
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