Wednesday, August 11, 2004

The Kerrymeleon is at it again.

One day he's a Democratic Senator voting for war. Months later he's the anti-war candidate, the same soldier that "threw away" his medals (ok, he didn't throw them away, just the ribbons--does that count?).

One day we were wrong to go to war in Iraq, but now that we're there we have to win the peace.

The next (e.g., TODAY)--when pushed by the President to say whether or not he'd vote for war in Iraq even with the hindsight of no WMD found to date--Kerry says he'd still have voted for war with Iraq, but, dang-it, he would have had a plan to win the peace.

This lack of uh. . . consistency. . . is really going to humiliate him eventually. Is he against the Iraq war or not? I may be as confused as Candidate Kerry before he walks out onto a campaign rally stage.

Hoorah for the advisors that pushed the President to force the issue. The fact is that Iraq was a reasonable and strategic move on the part of a nation that must consider its national interests first, even if feigning, fair-weathered friends don't stand by us because their hands are dipping into the blood-soaked coffers of a madman. Even without WMD, which was NOT the only justification for war by far, we'd still be in Iraq. Democrats or Republicans. It would have happened--even if the dream, the fantasy, the distant and ill-conceived hope of a would-be Kerry White House were a reality.

He said so himself.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I think that Jack over at Tigerhawk blogged on this a day or so ago. He noted (or quoted from someone else, I can't remember) that Kerry's anti-war record was his essential defining political characteristic and now he uses that same record to support his strong military creditials.

What? Can this be the same man?

How can you be against the Vietnam war, a war that you claimed violated human rights on a regular basis, and then say that it was a war that you were proud to have served in because you were fighting for your country, etc?

I too am confused. Or more to the point, he is.