In a Wall Street Journal piece that sounds like it could have been written by Joe Lieberman or Dick Cheney, former US Senator Bob Kerrey (D-Nebraska) says that Iraq has become the "primary battleground against the same radical Islamists who declared war on the U.S. in the 1990s and who have carried out a series of terrorist operations including 9/11."Kerrey asks policy makers, "what does your conscience tell you to do?" He should know something about conscience. Read all about his "One awful night in Thanh Phong." Kerrey and his men killed at least 13 unarmed women and children in a massacre that the former senator says he feels terrible about but did not constitute war crimes based on the rules of the time. The article quotes experts who disagree.
I don't think any declared Democrats running for president will take Kerrey's view, but I am quite sure the Republicans will exploit the WSJ piece for all it's worth.
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