John Kerry, Scheming Hawk

Jay Ambrose from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

So now -- based on what he said in criticizing President Bush -- we know that Sen. John Kerry would put the lives of U.S. troops at risk in a civil war to save a tyrannical, corrupt, incompetent regime in Haiti.

Where exactly is Kerry coming from? Is this the same presidential candidate who refused to vote for funds supporting the U.S. presence in Iraq and who to this day does not seem entirely clear on the importance of the war there to U.S. security? Is this the same man who made a virtual career in his younger days of denouncing U.S. intervention in Vietnam?

The claim, of course, is that the United States would have served the purposes of Latin American democracy if we had sent in our troops as part of an international force to keep Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in power. How so? Aristide was no friend of democracy. A sham election does not confer legitimacy on a regime, and the crushing of liberties should not be a cause for which Americans face rebel bullets.

Kerry's priorities are nothing since they come from a Democrat. This is the party of Carter (who never met a dictator he didn't like) and the party of Castro chums. That a Democrat wouldn't advocate the use of American troops to overthrow a tyrant, but would happily push a military action to prop one up shouldn't be shocking.

Just very disappointing.

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