Distinctions, Make Them.

This is why it's vitally important that Kucinich is not ignored and why accountability is imperative. The war is, and always has been, WRONG. Until that simple fact is addressed, most Democrats are nothing but glorified Bush apologists and will bear the blame for failure.

...most Democrats seem to be calling for withdrawal or 'redeployment' not because the war is wrong, but merely because it is failing. By framing the war as lost because of mismanagement, poor planning, or being bogged down in a civil war, Democrats cede the argument that the war itself was a 'noble cause.' But if the war is right, if as Bush maintains it is necessary to prevent horrendous
consequences, then the public will predictably blame those consequences on the 'defeatists' who made America 'cut and run.'

What's necessary to evade this trap is to define the war itself - rather than just the fact that America is losing it - as wrong. It is wrong because we were lied into it by a rogue executive intent on launching an illegal war and occupation, in violation of national and international law, the U.S. Constitution, and the U.N Charter. And it is wrong because it has imposed an illegal occupation that has systematically violated the Geneva Conventions and the U.S. War Crimes Act.

...As long as the American people hear that the only thing wrong with the war is that we're losing it, Democrats and the peace movement will be vulnerable to the Rovian trap.
Read The “Stab in the Back” Trap

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