What is this guy thinking? Details, via Helen Thomas:
"Last week at the Grand Canyon, Kerry said he would have 'voted to give the president the authority to go to war' even if he had known there were no stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction -- Bush's original justification for war on Iraq.
"Kerry explained that he believes a president should have the 'authority' to go to war, and he voted accordingly. But he insisted that Bush subsequently misused the authority by rushing headlong into combat based on faulty intelligence about Saddam's weapons arsenal....
"Kerry has passed up several chances to distance himself from the Iraqi debacle. But instead he has left himself wide open to Bush's ridicule. What's he got left -- stem-cell research?
"Bush had a field day smirking and mocking his political rival and telling the nation that he was "right" to attack Iraq, absence of weapons notwithstanding.
"Bush has sarcastically told cheering Republican rallies, 'After months of questioning my motives and even my credibility, Sen. Kerry now agrees with me....'
"The senator should have called Bush's hand months ago and laid it on the line after so much official deception. How could he say he would have voted for the 2002 war resolution after he and the whole world learned the rationale for the war was based on falsehoods?
"Does Kerry realize that the U.S. invasion of Iraq without provocation violates the U.N. Charter and the Nuremberg Tribunal principles?...
"So Kerry has blown it big time, rising to Bush's bait and throwing away his ace in the hole -- Bush's shaky credibility on the profound question of war and peace.
"Bush has yet to apologize for misleading the nation or to explain why he needed a war when Saddam's regime was tightly contained with sanctions, weapons inspections and U.S. patrolling of the 'no-fly' zone....
"In 1964, a Los Angeles Times cartoon by famed Paul Conrad showed a pollster knocking on a door. A woman sticks her head out of a window and the pollster asks her voting preference: 'President Johnson or Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz.?' She replies: 'Who else have you got?'
"That may be the fix some Americans are in again."
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