Reply #8: This is a sickening appeal to nationalism and militarism.

[IndianaGreen]

"I look forward to that debate when John Kerry, a war hero with a chest full of medals, is standing next to George Bush, a man who was AWOL in the Alabama National Guard," Mr. McAuliffe said in an interview on the ABC News program "This Week."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/01/politics/campaign/01CND-CAMP.html?hp

As fellow DUer Voltaire reminded us yesterday, DNC Chair Terry McAuliffe could not sink lower with this sickening appeal to nationalism and militarism. At a time when we need desperately to scale back our military empire, McAuliffe is out beating the drums of endless war with this pathetic appeal of Kerry's "chest full of medals."

The Democratic Party's answer to Bush strutting around on aircraft carriers is to resurrect the vile memory of American mass murder in Southeast Asia and deem it "heroic."

The Democratic Party is as guilty as the GOP when it comes to PATRIOT and the war in Iraq. The Democrats are another wing of the same bird of prey, as Pat Buchanan used to say.

The message I am getting is that the Democratic establishment will pursue Bush's war of imperialist expansion, the PNAC-agenda for short, just as vigorously as Bush has. The only different is that the Democrats will sugar coat the imperialist medicine so that it doesn't taste as bitter as it did under Bush.

I am particularly disturbed about the consequences of electing a Democrat like John Kerry President. Kerry represents the same elites that Bush does, without the religious mumbo-jumbo.

I have no faith that any of our bourgeois parties can extricate this nation from the quandary in which we find myself, the Greens included.

I seriously doubt that either Marx or Lenin would have advocated supporting one nationalist militarist party over another.

Electing John Kerry President will not end the war in Iraq, or lead to a repeal of PATRIOT, or even slow down globalism. The "Anyone But Bush" mantra ignores the fact that replacing Bush with Kerry is a mere change in personnel, not a change in policy!