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Originally Posted by KevinTheOmnivore
This was perhaps true prior to Vietnam, but good or bad, Liberalism has now become synonymous wit pacifism.
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I meant that towards the comment about him being "left of Hillary" which seems incorrect on more than one level. Liberalism has all but become a buzzword to mean not conservative, and I know of a fair share of Liberals who have a bit of hawk in them, a few Democratic Jews coming to mind. regardless, it's one thing to label liberalism as anti-war, and another thing to associate it with the larger left alone.
The most rightist candidate on the 2004 ballot who was notable supported a full and immediate withdraw from Iraq.