John Edwards, one of the current Democrat frontrunners in the race for the DNC presidential nomination, came out against the war on terror during a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations.
Edwards is not the first presidential candidate to publicly reject the notion of a war on terrorism. In a speech last fall, Democrat Joe Biden also criticized the doctrine as "simply wrong."In the first presidential debate last month in South Carolina, Edwards and Biden said they did not believe there was a global war on terror, along with Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich and former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel. Front-runners Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama indicated that they did.
(ABC News)
Edwards had been slipping in the polls against Clinton and Obama. Is this his way of courting the base?
"For us to be successful in this war on terrorism, we have to find these terrorist groups where they are, whether it's within our borders or outside our borders, and stop them and stamp them out before they do us harm," Edwards said in a 2004 CNN interview.
(ABC News)
Looks like he's changed his mind a bit.
I'm still chuckling (albeit in disgust) at what I read about Edwards at the Powerline blog a few hours ago.
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