[link|http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn26.html|Mark Steyn is not impressed]

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What a small, graceless man Kerry is. The nature of adversarial
politics in a democratic society makes George W. Bush his opponent. But
it was entirely Kerry's choice to expand the field, to put himself on
the other side of Allawi and the Iraqi people. Given his frequent boasts
that he knows how to reach out to America's allies, it's remarkable how
often he feels the need to insult them: Britain, Australia, and now free
Iraq. But, because this pampered cipher has floundered for 18 months to
find any rationale for his candidacy other than his indestructible
belief in his own indispensability, Kerry finds himself a month before
the election with no platform to run on other than American defeat. He
has decided to co-opt the jihadist death-cult, the Baathist dead-enders,
the suicide bombers and other misfits and run as the candidate of
American failure. This would be shameful if he weren't so laughably
inept at it.

I say:

But he's a big hit overseas with people who never really supported
us in the first place. Everybody loves a traitor - on the other side.

Kerry portrays Iraq as a disaster. And from his point of view, it was.

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