[Peace-discuss] Tweedle dumb and dumber

[Al Kagan]

Reading the New York Times today is quite fascinating.  On page A10, 
they have a story titled, "Candidates' Iraq Policies Share Many 
Similarities."  It comes complete with a box showing the similarities 
of Bush and Kerry's policy on Iraq.  Right below it, in another box, 
the NYT editors confess that they were duped by the Bush 
administration into printing many stories without verifying facts. 
It is titled, "From the Editors: The Times and Iraq."

The Op-Ed page continues the story.  William Safire, in a column 
titled, "The Bush-Kerry Nondebate, shows how Bush has now endorsed 
Kerry's position almost all the way on getting some help from allies 
to salvage their policy.

The Op-Ed column by Nicholas D. Kristof is titled, "the Bush and 
Kerry Tilt."  It begins, "George Bush and John Kerry disagree on 
almost every issue, with one crucial exception: they compete to 
support a myopic policy that is unjust, that damages our credibility 
around the world that severely undermines our efforts in Iraq. It is 
our Israel-Palestine policy, which has become so unbalanced that it's 
now little more than an embrace of the right-wing, jingoist whom Mr. 
Bush unforgettably labeled a "man of peace," Ariel Sharon.

The truth comes out in strange ways.
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Al Kagan
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