I'm getting dizzy. According this recent statement Kerry now endorses the Iraq War, but simply says that he'd have done a much better job of making the peace. I said over a year ago that this is what a Democratic Presidential candidate ought to do. But frankly, he's doing it far too late in the game for me to believe him. All it does at this point is convince me that Kerry will say anything that he thinks might get him elected, even if it directly contradicts what he said a week ago. It's that basic "I voted for it before I voted against it" silliness.
GRAND CANYON, Ariz. (Reuters) - Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry said on Monday he would have voted for the congressional resolution authorizing force against Iraq even if he had known then no weapons of mass destruction would be found. (Hat tip: Instapundit)
I thought he already said that we should only fight wars that are "necessary?" I guess that means he thinks the Iraq War was a necessary war even though there were no WMD. I wonder how the Deaniacs and the Mooreons feel about them apples?
Sometimes I wish George W. were a bit more flexible, but at least the guy's not a rank opportunist. Kerry reminds me of that old joke about Oregon weather: if you don't like it just wait awhile and it'll change.
Update: By the way, Glenn has a great deal more on the "Christmas in Cambodia" issue, including some comments that it could have been a "manufactured memory." In reference to that, doesn't it sound like one of the scenes from Apocalypse Now, where the Sheen character pulls into a devastated USO Christmas party, and then travels upriver to consort with tragically sad French expatriates. Is it possible that watching this movie Kerry combined some of it with his own memories to create a new memory, his own journey into the "heart of darkness?"
This isn't someone I want running the country, frankly. It'd be like having Richard Nixon at the helm again, but with a lower IQ.
Posted by Demosophist at August 10, 2004 02:40 AM | TrackBack