The Perils of Journalistic Indirection

If Bob Kerr wants to call President Bush a liar, he should just come out and say so. He shouldn?t do it by hiding behind a grieving mother. Does Kerr himself think that President Bush is a liar? He doesn?t quite make it that far, he only gets to a point where he can tell us?

It's as if the truth has laid siege to the vacation White House.

He lets someone else make that charge of lying for him?

He could have used his standard bromides -- "noble cause," "the right of Iraqis to live in freedom." And [Cindy] Sheehan could have disagreed with him, told him she considers the reasons for the war to be lies.

Does Kerr believe that it is a lie that Iraqis have a right to live in freedom? Or that Cindy Sheehan believes that it is a lie that Iraqis have a right to live in freedom? It?s hard to tell, given the indirection that Kerr express himself with. But if Bob Kerr believes that the United States best protects itself by ignoring governments that crush the freedom and the lives of their people, he should come out and say so in his own name.