NEW YORK Aug. 30, 2004 — Democrats criticized President Bush's record on national security and military matters Monday, seizing on the president's comment that he doesn't think the fight against terrorism can be won.
"I don't think you can win it," Bush said on NBC's "Today," when asked, "can we win" the war on terror. "But I think you can create conditions so that the those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world."
Democrats responded quickly at a morning briefing a half-dozen blocks from the Republican National Convention.
"I decided a year ago that he cannot win the war on terror," Gen. Merrill McPeak, a John Kerry supporter, said of Bush.
The former Air Force chief of staff said he supported Republican Bob Dole in 1996 and Bush in 2000.
"Iraq is a much bigger mess than it needed to be if we were competent to the task at hand," McPeak said.
And John Edwards says:
``After months of listening to the Republicans base their campaign on their singular ability to win the war on terror, the president now says we can't win the war on terrorism,'' Edwards said, according to a copy of remarks the senator delivered in North Carolina, his home state. ``This is no time to declare defeat.''
Bush has admitted that this "war on terror" is an endless "war," and really has no big interest in seeing it to a conclusion.
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