The LA Times this morning has a very interesting story in the front section. It is on John Kerry’s Amazing Invisible Super-Secret Plan on Iraq. It’s basically what Bush has been doing the last few months (attempting to internationalize and pull US troops out), but Kerry says he’d be better at it. The Times disagrees and points out that support for war is at just about zero in Germany and France, and portions of our coalition of the somewhat willing is already beginning to break apart. The Ukraine, which is 3rd on the number of troops list with just over 1500, is preparing for pullout. An unnamed Kerry source mentions that certain European governments have sent back channel motions to the Kerry/Edwards people that they would be willing to help a Kerry Administration. This sounds ridiculously like Kerry’s earlier claim that “unnamed foreign governments” are rooting for him to beat Bush.
We’re two weeks from the Democratic Convention, and I still have not heard any reasons to vote for Kerry beyond the Not-GW Bush factor or Vietnam.
Posted by Frinklin at August 9, 2004 06:52 PM