Kerry for president (Buffalo News)

[huckleberry]

Challenger would fight war on terror in a more intelligent and honest way

In the history of the republic, no president has undertaken a more serious endeavor than taking this country to war. And any wartime president is rightly judged on the wisdom he showed in going to war, the efficiency in which his administration fought the conflict and how it won the peace.

It is now clear that President Bush's leadership in two of these areas has come up tragically short. But Bush is guilty of far more than bad judgment. He is guilty of misleading the American people. There is overwhelming evidence that he ignored information that contradicted the casus belli of this conflict: that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

Even worse, he failed to share that information fully with the American people or key congressional leaders. Simply put, we are now in a war that has claimed more than 1,100 American lives because the president and his senior advisers were so determined to depose Saddam that they relied only on evidence that bolstered their case. It is not a performance that merits re-election. For this and a number of other reasons, we endorse the Democratic nominee, Sen. John Kerry, for president.


more at
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20041024/1054772.asp

[bushwakker]

1. Let's Go Buffalo

But Bush is guilty of far more than bad judgment. He is guilty of misleading the American people

Pretty good stuff.

[Not Me]

2. Traditionally a Repub paper.