France’s attempts at creating a coalition of Iraqis opposed to the interim government of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi collapsed yesterday as Paris announced it had abandoned its opposition to an international conference to be held on the future of Iraq.
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France and US were at loggerheads about who should attend the conference. Washington insisted that only governments should be invited. Paris, however, wanted what it calls “Iraqi resistance groups” to also attend.
France apparently wanted those groups because they were the only ones that might not be openly hostile to France.
Junkyard Blog reviews The New Soldier, a book by Senator John Kerry. It’s even more relevant now than it was then.
Hundreds of public schoolchildren, some as young as 11, are taking time out of regular classes to canvass neighborhoods in Milwaukee, Madison and Racine in a get-out-the-vote effort organized by Wisconsin Citizen Action Fund - a group whose umbrella organization has endorsed John Kerry for president.
The coalition says the effort is non-partisan, but because the group is targeting minority neighborhoods and those with historically low voter turnout - overwhelmingly Democratic areas - Republican operatives are crying foul amid the highly charged political atmosphere in the state.
This exemplifies the fundamental Leftist / Democratic Party point of view – anyone is just a resource to be used at will by the politically correct. Anyone who doesn’t like it is just suffering from false consciousness or is a class enemy.
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“With the same energy . . . I put into going after the Viet Cong and trying to win for our country, I pledge to you I will hunt down and capture or kill the terrorists before they harm us,” Kerry said. “And we will wage a war on terror that makes America proud and brings the world to our side.”
Given how Senator Kerry supported the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong against the USA after leaving the battlefield as quickly as possibly under dubious circumstances, how can this be read as other than a call to surrender?