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Rudy, You're Wrong

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September 2004
James M. Crotty Utne.com 
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Rudy, moderates like me held out hope that leaders like you wouldn't buy into the Republican politics of destruction. We thought you were a different breed. But I guess, in the spirit of Colin Powell's cowardly command performance at the UN shortly before the preordained invasion of Iraq, the Republican brass told you to put up or shut up. You felt compelled to show the GOP frat boys that you could deliver some serious hazing. And that you did, Rudy. That you did.

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But in so doing, you not only diminished your own halo, but made crystal clear that the Republican Party has no clue how to win the peace, no clue how to genuinely win the war on terror, and no clue how to address the causes of terror, including a sane energy policy that weens us off Middle East oil and our corrupt entanglements with our Saudi suppliers. Your speech showed the world that you and your party are good at only two things: bombs and bombast.

Well, Rudy, you Republicans have had your turn, and you've once again blown it. Now it's time, once again, for the Democrats to clean up your mean-spirited mess.

James M. Crotty is the cofounder ofMonk: The Mobile Magazine, and author of How to Talk American(Houghton Mifflin). He can be reached at Jim@Monk.com

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