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2004 political presidential cartoons about Iowa primary precinct caucus and caucuses news, reports information on 2004 Democrat and Republican candidates, campaigns issues |
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"Bob Graham Crackers" May 3, 2003 … Headline from OpinionJournal.com: “Is Graham crackers? …A Democratic candidate runs against a successful war.” The column by assistant OpinionJournal.com editor Brendan Miniter says, “Too bad Bob Graham didn’t open the morning papers before he opened his mouth on Sunday.” Miniter notes that on ABC’s “This Week” last Sunday Graham pointed out that “we have virtually abandoned the war” on terrorism. More Miniter: “Did he miss the Sunday New York Times?” – citing a Times report by C. J. Chivers indicating three manuals were found in Iraq that were “nearly identical to those found in al-Qaeda bases in liberated Afghanistan.” And more Miniter: “Mr. Graham, of course, is also wrong about the Bush administration neglecting Afghanistan. There are still 11,500 U. S. soldiers there hunting for al Qaeda terrorists and Taliban remnants …Why do Mr. Graham and some of his fellow Democrats insist, against all evidence, that the war in Iraq has nothing to do with terrorism? Because they seek to discredit President Bush’s most impressive achievement to date, yet they can’t be seen as opposing the war on terror. Mr. Graham hopes to cover himself by arguing for a different war. If elected president, Mr. Graham promises to bring the international community into the rebuilding effort in Iraq and concentrate on Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad and other terrorist groups. He should know that another Democrat tried a similar approach and got trounced. In 1988 Michael Dukakis opposed President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative, but to avoid appearing soft on defense, he urged more spending on conventional weapons like tanks. Tanks were not kind to the Massachusetts governor that year. Democratic naysaying about a successful war doesn’t promise to be a winning strategy in 2004, either.” |
