Exit polls say that Yushchenko is winning the election, by 15-20 percentage points. Finally! As Yelena, Igor, and Valentina have become fond of saying, though, it is one thing to win the vote; it is another to become president. Yanukovych has not yet conceded and has given no hint as to what he will do next. We can only hope that there will be a concession and an orderly transfer of power. We are afraid this will not happen, however.
Senator Kerry calls this a "tragic milestone," and the most catastrophic of the administration's mistakes made so far. Regardless of his mistakenly voting for the war at the time, he's right. For him to turn against the Iraq war is a flip-flop I would be happy with. Hopefully he has an exit strategy, even though he's not telling us about it at the moment.
This is why Bush must be defeated in November. I realize the economy is an important issue, but compared to 1000++ dead soldiers? Come on. Not to mention 7,000++ wounded, and the 11,000++ estimated by the Iraq Body Count . This is a slam dunk, as George Tenet would say.
Prediction: if Bush is [re]elected, the U.S. will engage in pre-emptive war against Iran and/or North Korea. Is that really what we want?
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