Mr. Kerry: You Could Still Be the Leader We Need

[dweller]

by Cynthia Bogard

Dear John Kerry,

We've had our differences, John, but you are still our last best hope for saving the nation. We need your help to bring
the truth about our nation's attack on Iraq to the attention of the American people.

Many of us in the progressive community voted for the screamer (Howard Dean) or the peacenik (Dennis Kucinich)
and not you in last year's Democratic primary (could it have only been last year?). We gave our money to those
campaigns and worked for them too because those men better represented what kind of leader we thought the nation
needed a leader who was unequivocally against the needless attack on Iraq, a leader who would get us out while our
reputation as an honorable nation was still salvageable.

But when you became the Democratic Party nominee, we gave you our all because we knew how high the stakes
were; everything we treasured about this nation had been punched out and needed to be made right again.

Democracies don't engage in wars of choice. Democracies don't hold people in detention without charge or trial. Only
by making the Bush Administration an anathema, only by committing to backing out of Iraq immediately in whatever
way made sense for both us and the people we had attacked could America regain a chance to be the superpower
that modeled democracy for the world, not aggression.

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0606-31.htm

dp

[Jim Sagle]

1. Yes he COULD but what are the odds?

:-)

[KoKo]

2. I would hope that others besides Kerry will give speeches on the Senate

floor about the Downing Street Minutes. I think Senator Byrd gave an excellent speech for Memorial Day about Lying "the people" into war.

Kerry needs other big guns. I hope the issue isn't left to him because he can't and shouldn't handle this on his own. :shrug: