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Page 8 October 27,2094 CAMPUS OPINION Editorial: John Kerry JANE LANGFORD Features Editor Our country is at war. This is dear. The larger question remains who are we and who should we be at war with. No one disagrees that we should be fighting terrorism around the globe. But there are, and should, be severe qualms with our being at war with Iraq. This election is going to be about many different domes tic issues but the single big gest factor is going to be for eign policy and particularly Ihe war in Iraq. Supporters of George Bush will argue that John Kerry has no plan to win the war in Iraq and that Presi dent Bush was correct in going after Saddam Hussein. Both of these arguments are false. The first thing that must be addressed is the reason for go ing to war. Bush told us that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and that Saddam Hussein was fund ing terrorism. These two things proved not true. Not only arc they not true. Bush’s own aides told him before the war that they weren’t true. Colin Powell, the much respcctcd Secretary of State, is long known to have been against the war and especial ly the linking of Iraq with Al Qaeda. Bush's own anti-ter- rorism head, now departed Richard Clark, has confirmed that Bush was looking to go after Iraq as soon as 9/11 oc curred. Clark has also refuted the President’s claim of be ing good for the war on terror. “Frankly,” he said, “I find it outrageous that the presi dent is running for re-elec tion on the grounds that he’s done such great things about terrorism. He ignored it. He ignored terrorism for months, when maybe we could have done something to stop 9/11. Maybe. We’ll never know.” This is Bush’s own guy peo ple! So at this point, the 9/11 commission has concluded that there was no link between Iraq and Al Qaeda. The CIA has just recently made its fi nal report and said there were no weapons of mass destruc tion and actually Saddam was a “diminishing threat”. So this should mean that America recognises that Sad dam had nothing to do with 9/11. Wrong again! A new PI PA report concluded that 72% of Bush supporters con tinue to believe that Iraq had actual WMD and that 57% think the ClA report found that Iraq had a major weap ons program. Also, the report showed that 75% of Bush sup porters still think that Iraq was providing substantial support to Al Qaeda and that clear evi dence of this has been found. The bigger question is why these people think this. And that reason is clear, the Bush administration has continually associated the two to gain sup port for the war in Iraq. Sena tor John Edwards accused the Vice-President of such things during the Vice-Presi- dential debates and Cheney lied about his ever connect ing the two. They have you on tape Mr. Vice-President! So say you don’t think the President lied and was indeed mislead by his intelligence, which might just be the case. This whole war would be an honest mistake, right? That does not mean that Bush gets a pass. This is Amer ica, we don't give passes. If you were the executive of a large business or even the ice cream scooper at Baskin Rob ins. you don’t get to make fatal mistakes. And here some of us are willing to re-elect a man who mistakenly has killed tliou-' sands of innocent people, both American and foreign, at the same time that we arc calling for the kid who gave us pralines ‘n creme instead of cookies 'n creme to be fired immediately. You don’t get to make this kind of atrocious mistake when you arc leader of the free world and not suffer the con sequences. On this fact alone we should not re-elect George Bush. He creatcd a mess that will take years to clean up. And who should clean up this mess? Well, right now it’s John Kerry. And you will hear people scream that he doesn’t have a plan any better than the President’s. Well, to that all I have to say is it couldn't possibly be any worse. Kerry can gain the support of foreign leaders in our policy because he will actually sit down and talk with them. He does care what the rest of the world has to say because be understands Americans are global citizens not just Ameri can citizens. America might seem large while we’re stand ing in it but there’s a lot more of the world than there is of us. The biggestthingishc wouldn’t have sent us into Iraq in the first place. He would go after terrorists, not countries he dis liked. He wouldn’t ignore the intelligence that showed Iraq didn’t have anything and he wouldn’t piss off the rest of the world with his stubbornness. The time for mistakes is over. The time for lies is over. The time for John Kerry is here. PART TIME WORK. Good pay. ^lex. schedules, scholar ships possible. 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