Anti-War Kerry becomes Pro-War Kerry
It annoys me that Kerry is marketing himself as basically the anti-bush alternative for the presidency.
Kerry appears to say whatever it takes to win votes, this makes me feel he is simply kissing asses and making frivolent promises for votes.
Excerpt from reuters article http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&e=5&u=/nm/20040810/pl_nm/campaign_bush_dc below:
The Bush campaign has been pressuring Kerry to say whether he would have still voted for the Iraq war given the fact that no weapons of mass destruction have been found. Kerry on Monday said he would have voted to give the president authorization to use force against Iraq “but I would have used that authority effectively.”
Bush and his aides delighted in the response and said it showed further evidence of Kerry flip-flopping from an anti-war stance he held during the Democratic primary last winter.
“Now, almost two years after he voted for the war in Iraq, and almost 220 days after switching positions to declare himself the anti-war candidate, my opponent has found a new nuance,” Bush said. “He now agrees it was the right decision to go into Iraq.”
“After months of questioning my motives, and even my credibility, Senator Kerry now agrees with me that even though we have not found the stockpiles of weapons we all believed were there, knowing everything we know today, he would have voted to go into Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein (news – web sites) from power. I want to thank Senator Kerry for clearing that up,” Bush said.
