[R-G] What We Didn't Hear at the Debate: Where's the Exit Strategy?

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

October 1, 2004
Where's the Exit Strategy?
What We Didn't Hear at the Debate

By RALPH NADER

Neither President Bush or Senator Kerry have an exit strategy for the 
war in Iraq and both of them say we're going to win the war in Iraq 
-- which means an endless occupation, which breeds resistance, and 
which does not cut the bottom out of the insurgency, because 
mainstream Iraqis are given no light at the end of the tunnel that 
they're going to get their country back with a set schedule under a 
US military and corporate (i.e. oil company) withdrawal from their 
nation. . . .

All in all, I think the people got a longer look at John Kerry than 
they ever have. They're used to George W. Bush. I would say that 
within the narrow confines of the so-called debates there was the 
edge to Kerry over Bush. However, having said that, Jim Lehrer really 
narrowed the range of subjects to the debate. We didn't hear anything 
about the Israel/Palestine conflict; we didn't hear anything about 
global arms control in the broader sense; we didn't hear anything 
about the global trade treaties -- WTO and NAFTA -- nor did we hear 
anything about the need to do something about the military budget of 
the Pentagon, which is so wasteful.

<http://www.counterpunch.org/nader10012004.html>
-- 
Yoshie

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