We’ve all seen the story that a major cache of Iraqi explosives has been looted. And the administration, despite repeated warnings, let it happen, then attempted to cover up the blunder.
The response is, as always, no response: "John Kerry has no vision for fighting and winning the War on Terror, so he is basing his attacks on the headlines he wakes up to each day," said a campaign spokesman, Steve Schmidt.
And yet, on a totally unrelated subject, Schmidt has a point. As Charles Peters posted recently at on the washingtonmonthly.com, Kerry would do better to focus on the big picture, than on each new disaster.
“I urge Kerry to stop his foolish attempt to exploit each day's news — I'm sure that if he thought the next day's headline was going to be "Flowers Wilt," Shrum would have the Senator take a bold stand in favor of fresh flowers.
“Kerry has been at his strongest when he has attacked Bush's incompetence on Iraq and terrorism. In his best speech on the subject, at NYU in September, the Senator itemized each way Bush had been wrong — in counting on Chalabi to build political legitimacy, in failing to provide enough troops to secure the country, in promising we'd be greeted as liberators, and in downplaying the importance of looting, and overestimating the state of Iraq's sorry infrastructure. Returning to this set of simple charges would also make it possible for Kerry to undermine Bush's main asset in the eyes of the insecure, his certainty, by repeating again and again Kerry's great point that "it's no good being certain if you're wrong."
Posted by Mr. Miara at October 25, 2004 12:12 PM