from andrewsullivan.com (one of my favorite faggots)

They’re not exactly shouting from the rooftops. But they sure have their wetted fingers hoisted in the air. Janet Reno says in Florida that "I have trouble with a war that has no endgame and I have trouble with a war that generates so many concerns about individual liberties." Notice she doesn’t say that the war has violated individual liberties, or that she believes that, but merely that there are “so many concerns” about it. Has there been any war in which such concerns have not been raised? The Richmond Times-Dispatch also reports that “the former U.S. attorney general said she thinks the government would be hard-pressed to find a legal basis to prosecute many of the Taliban and al-Qaida prisoners being detained at Guantanamo Bay.” Oh, let them go, then. Back to Sandy Berger and letting bin Laden escape from Sudan to Afghanistan. Do these people ever learn? And then there’s Senator John Kerry. As a Vietnam vet, he’ll be the front man for those Democrats desperate to dispel the war atmosphere that could realign American politics away from dovish liberals for decades. Senator Hillary Clinton spelled out the formula in Boston at a Kerry fund-raiser: “John’s leadership is critical to where we plan to go in this world. We need people of the stature and the experience of John Kerry ... asking the hard questions. We are having the debate Congress is required to have — where to go, what to do." Like most things Senator Clinton says, this is unobjectionable on its face. But its intent is clear. Some Democrats are simply uncomfortable about America having a strong and unapologetic role in the world. This isn’t treason; it’s weakness. And weakness in the dangerous world we face is an invitation for more terror. Be warned.

ANTI-WAR LEFT WATCH: “Whether it is an ill-specified axis of evil, or a decision to make tactical nuclear war thinkable, or a domestic ''shadow government,'' or deliberately leaked plans to attack Iraq, George W. Bush in his own way is as frightening as Al Qaeda… There is only so much we can do about the risk of random assault, but we can at least reclaim our own democracy. Terrorism, unfortunately, is all too real. But so is one's terror of the Bush presidency. Every reckless scheme will have to be challenged with the only means we have: democratic opposition. Right after Sept. 11, there was no place for a popular movement against the Afghan War. But there must now be one against the administration's ill-considered sequels. Otherwise, the daily risk will only increase, not just because of Them but because of Us.” – Robert Kuttner, equating president Bush with al Qaeda and calling for a Vietnam-like resistance to the war on terror.

-p (note Reno's political equivocation allowing subsequent denial - those clever pols)