Did Kerry Get This Right?

As part of his latest effort to make Iraq the focus of his campaign, Sen. Kerry has been arguing that as a result of President Bush lying and misleading us into a misguided and mismanaged war “Iraq,” as Kerry put it in a major speech at Temple University last week, ” is now what it was not before the war — a haven for terrorists.”

So, as Kerry’s new mantra has it, whatever it was before being Bush-whacked, now and presumably for the foreseeable future Iraq is a terrorist threat.

Let us hope the American people agree with Kerry’s most recent analysis, for the latest Gallup Poll reveals that voters prefer Bush over Kerry as better able to deal with terrorism by 61% to 34%.

Kerry’s pushing his weakest point to the fore suggests that Dick Morris may be on to something when he argues that the Clintonistas now at the top of the Kerry campaign may really be working for Hillary in 2008.

UPDATE [9/30/04 9:40AM]

From Max Boot’s OpEd column in today’s Los Angeles Times:

Whether or not Iraq was central to the war on terrorism before the U.S.-led invasion