The Brawler is committed to helping the Journal Sentinel any way he can. In this case, he's hoping to contribute to Steve Walters' occasional "Four years ago" series, which looks at things candidates or their staff did or said four years ago. So far Walters has had two items that take shots at Doyle and one that recall Ed Thompson's fearless consumption of venision -- but nothing about Mark Green, the Republican candidate. It's weird!
So, this is something that Mark Green said in the 10/30/02 Green Bay Press Gazette:
History doesn't allow the U.S. to rely on diplomacy alone in dealing with Iraq, Green said.
"The last 11 years have been little more than a game to Saddam," he said. "There have been 16 U.N. resolutions, and he's ignored them or gotten around them. That's got to end. At a time we know he is aggressively pursuing weapons of mass destruction and know he'd use them, that's not acceptable."
Now people will say, Democrats went along with the authorization of force. To which the Brawler would reply, yes, they were wrong to do so. Then again, Karl Rove's tack in that election was to paint them as traitors if they didn't march in lockstep with Bush.
But Green has been in the highest percentile of war supporters. His trip to Iraq, when in retrospect things were falling apart, appear as dispatches from Pravda.
Now, the Brawler is not sure if Walters would consider comments such as these fair game for his worthy pursuit. After all, it's more important that Doyle didn't accurately predict 5 percent growth at a time when the economy was emerging from recession (one of Walters' jabs). But as rabid Dem attack dog Bill Christofferson says, Iraq is a state issue. Green's position in Iraq should be considered by voters as they head to the polls. It reflects on his judgment. Its ruinous effect on our Treasury has an impact on our state. And of course there's the men and women, from near-kids to 50somethings, who have been wounded or killed over there.
Wisconsin is the 20th biggest state in population. Yet it ranks 14th in the number of people killed. Sixty. The list can be found here.
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