[Alberta's Child]

1. I am not a Kerry supporter.

2. Kristol has long been an advocate for U.S. military intervention all over the freakin' world, and I'm curious to know what he thinks about our role in Iraq after November 2nd.

If he can't answer that question, then he's got about as much credibility to discuss this subject as a 300-pound jack@ss who never played sports but writes articles criticizing a shortstop for making too many errors.

[sinkspur]

You're just anti-war, AC. That's an attitude that's worthless in the war on terror.

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

Just curious, are you an American or a Canadian?

[RinaseaofDs]

Hillary Clinton could have made these comments and I would have agreed with them.

That's the benefit of critical thinking skills.

Also, it's important to realize that most of the people on this forum are news junkies, and enjoy political discourse. Most of the voters that will vote on Nov. 2 aren't.

Clinton got elected because no matter how people in the know felt about him and all of his drawbacks, he knew how to communicate with people in a way that made them feel like they now had a grip on the issue. Problem was that it was HIS grip on the issue.

Most of the people who vote are not going to care about this . . . seditionary criticism of Allawi. It won't effect their vote, though it should.

I hope Kristol gets it, and a whole lot of other questionably conservative, and objectively liberal people get this too, and communicate it regardless of their supposed qualification to do so.

I've been following this election more than any other in my life because I actually, palpably believe that our very lives are at stake.

If Jesse Jackson stands up tomorrow and gives the same analysis, you'll find me singing Kumbaya with him.

[The Drowning Witch]

1. I am not a Kerry supporter. 2. Kristol has long been an advocate for U.S. military intervention all over the freakin' world, and I'm curious to know what he thinks about our role in Iraq after November 2nd. If he can't answer that question, then he's got about as much credibility to discuss this subject as a 300-pound jack@ss who never played sports but writes articles criticizing a shortstop for making too many errors.

This is the dumbest effing post I've read here, since your last post on this thread.

[rintense]

But AC, he is a political commentator- this is what he does. What *he* would do is irrelevant. What he did do is point out the incredible ineptitude that is John Kerry on Iraq, diplomacy, detente, and foreign policy.

[lavrenti]

Kristol is also a craven opportunist. He utterly undercut the President when things did not go so well earlier this year.

He and Kagan co-wrote that idiotic article in FA back in 1996, which spelled out an interventionist American policy.

Of course, when we finally got into a war of daunting proportions he snipes, forgetting totally the responsibilites entailed for advocating such a policy as laid out in that piece.

Kristol has no credibility to speak on the subject, especially now that we're committed.

[Brian Allen]

<< .... he's got about as much credibility to discuss this subject as a 300-pound jack@ss who never played sports but writes articles criticizing a shortstop for making too many errors. >>

Or a Judge who's never committed a crime sentencing a child-molestor to prison or a mass-murderer to death?

Or a fireman who's never committed arson running about the place willy-nilly putting out fires?

Or a man who's never seen and Iraqi dancing in the streets, heaping scorn upon those who see them dancing every day?

Or the progeny of a canadian province who's never met a deadline, edited a national news-magazine or published a column, criticizing the -- in this instance -- excellent judgement of one who does it every day.

Try a little logic.