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I think this goes beyond simple posturing for Kerry. They have to get the core of the democratic party in line behind the leader and this is how they have always done it.

Wasn't it LBJ who ran the commercials with the little girl getting blown up in a nuclear fireball insinuating that Goldwater would start a nuclear war in trying to win in Vietnam..

you're right of course, Kerry couldn't hope to get many democratic votes by doing that, and most of the republican votes already belong to W.

my general point is that Kerry should (and i stress should) do what is right. and I realize that not everyone on this forum is religous at all, so they might disagree somewhere. So someone believes we cannot gauge what is right and no one can proove otherwise... this is a fallacy called argumentum ad Ignorantium (I know this b/c I'm on my highschool debate team) rather my point would be, not that we *cannot gauge* what is right, but that we should gauge what is right for ourselves given what we know and have been taught. Yeah I can understand your point is well, Kerry wouldn't have a snowball's chance in Hades of getting nominated if he makes a statement like this. but you know it would get him lined up for a victory from right-wing swing voters (if there is such a thing).

the point of the article is that a statement like this from Kerry would result in a reduction of terrorist attacks (or so I gather)