Cleland: Immoral, Unjust, and Unacceptable
Speaking to a Democratic gathering in Atlanta recently, former Senator Max Cleland took the gloves off in attacking Bush’s record in the “War on Terror.” The full text of his remarks is given in the following column at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Max returns, with fire in his eyes.
Cleland, an ex-military man, sounds fairly pissed about all this. He points out that none of the leading lights of the Bush administration (with the exception of Colin Powell) has ever faced combat. He emphasizes the similarities between Iraq and Vietnam. He embraces the president’s assertions that we’re in a war against terrorism, then lays out how the president is failing to fight that war effectively.
Some of his suggestions for improvement leave me cold (revive the draft?), but I think it’s significant that it’s not just left-leaning peaceniks like me who are upset about the way things are going. We emphasize different aspects of the Bush train wreck, but we agree that that’s what it is.
