The Washington Re-Post

Former Senator and Democratic Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards demonstrated in a Washington Post op-ed why he and John Kerry were defeated last year. [1]  In summary, he calls for the weaknesses and failures of the Bush Administration’s policies be pursued to an ideal standard divorce from reality.  However, in calling essentially from withdrawal from Iraq and the War on Terror, he make a more fundamental error.

Mr. Edwards wrote, "The world desperately needs moral leadership from America, and the foundation for moral leadership is telling the truth."

The truth of the matter is that we correctly invaded Iraq, because Saddam's Iraq was a state sponsor of terrorism.  Ending state sponsorship of terrorism is a critical success criteria in our War on Terror. 

It could be legitimately argued that we should have attacked Iran first, but questions of timing do not negate the moral legitimacy of our invasion of Iraq.

To be a moral leader, America must SELFISHLY assert our interests and our right to destroy those countries that have supported international terrorism without submitting to the permission of any other nation or international body.

Therefore, now is not the time to retreat from Iraq, but to call for a Declaration of War against Iran and Syria for their past support of terrorism and their current support of terrorists in Iraq.

President Bush's infernally moderate war policy must be replaced with a congressionally declare war that will destroy state sponsors of terrorism.  President Bush promised that war policy, and has failed to deliver.

[1] John Edwards, “The Right Way in Iraq,“ The Washington Post, 11/13/2007, B07.

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