One word for this editorial: WOW.



Don't just read the snip I posted... read it all. It's the most powerful editorial about Iraq I've ever read. If there were more Father Greeleys and fewer Cardinal Ratzingers in the Church, I might still go to Mass.

It's just a shame that none of the Democratic presidential wannabes have condemned the immorality of this war. Oh, wait... there is that one fella, the one the media won't mention unless they can mock him like a group of cruel teenaged harpies, the tall and pensive veteran who knows all too well the tragic cost of immoral wars. He's called this war immoral, several times.

The media and the other candidates are terrified that America will find this out, because they know deep in their hearts that 2008 will be a referendum on Iraq, and there is exactly one candidate who speaks with the moral clarity this nation so desperately craves. You cannot manufacture moral clarity, and that is precisely why Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and the news media are equally threatened by John Kerry. All of the above are far too invested in either hyping, supporting, apologizing, or making excuses for this immoral lie of a war, and they are desperately hoping to convince the American people otherwise. The presence of John Kerry makes their charade impossible. For that reason alone, their entire futures depend on silencing him.

Truth, however, cannot be swept under the rug so easily. The American people have had enough of the lies, the deceptions, and the bloodshed, and they want change. That inconvenient truth does not bode well for those whose futures are deeply invested in the maintenance of the status quo. The winds of change are blowin'....