Don't think the antiwar movement has dropped off the political
map. A lot of those people, and there were millions of them, are thinking:
Who should I vote for in 2004?
This brings us to the Democratic candidates vying for the honor
of running against G. Bush in 2004. Senators Joe Lieberman, John Edwards,
Bob Graham, John Kerry and Rep. Dick Gephardt all supported the war with
varying degrees of enthusiasm
Firmly antiwar were one white, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, and two
blacks, the Rev. Al Sharpton and former U.S. Senator Carol Mosely Braun.
Howard Dean, former governor of Vermont, now vying with Kucinich
for the support of the progressive crowd, stood by his position that any
attack on Iraq should have the explicit blessing of the U.N. Security
Council.
The logic of Dean's position is that if the U.N. Security
Council had approved, war would have been justified. By contrast, Rep.
Dennis Kucinich has always taken the position, as has Rev. Al Sharpton, that
the U.N. inspectors should have been allowed to do their work. In
