Wednesday, September 22, 2004
Examples of Kerry's Flip-flopping
What Sen. John Kerry has said in the past about the Iraq war.
Oct. 9, 2002: "I will be voting to give the president of the United States the authority to use force - if necessary - to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security."
Sept. 4, 2003: "I don't think any United States senator is going to abandon our troops and recklessly leave Iraq to whatever follows as a result of simply cutting and running. That's irresponsible."
Dec. 4: "The administration is considering what is tantamount to a cut-and-run strategy. Their sudden embrace of accelerated Iraqification and American troop withdrawal without adequate stability is an invitation to failure."
Aug. 6, 2004: "I believe that within a year from now, we could significantly reduce American forces in Iraq, and that's my plan."
Aug. 16: "I would have voted for the authority [to go to war]. I believe it was the right authority for a president to have."
Sept. 6: "We want the troops home, and my goal would be to try to get them home in my first term."
Sept. 20: "Iraq was a profound diversion from that war and the battle against our greatest enemy, Osama bin Laden and the terrorists."
Yesterday: "Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator who deserves his own special place in hell. But that was not, in itself, a reason to go to war.
(From Newsday, Quoting Vice-President Cheney)
A hat-tip to Occam's Tweezer
Oct. 9, 2002: "I will be voting to give the president of the United States the authority to use force - if necessary - to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security."
Sept. 4, 2003: "I don't think any United States senator is going to abandon our troops and recklessly leave Iraq to whatever follows as a result of simply cutting and running. That's irresponsible."
Dec. 4: "The administration is considering what is tantamount to a cut-and-run strategy. Their sudden embrace of accelerated Iraqification and American troop withdrawal without adequate stability is an invitation to failure."
Aug. 6, 2004: "I believe that within a year from now, we could significantly reduce American forces in Iraq, and that's my plan."
Aug. 16: "I would have voted for the authority [to go to war]. I believe it was the right authority for a president to have."
Sept. 6: "We want the troops home, and my goal would be to try to get them home in my first term."
Sept. 20: "Iraq was a profound diversion from that war and the battle against our greatest enemy, Osama bin Laden and the terrorists."
Yesterday: "Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator who deserves his own special place in hell. But that was not, in itself, a reason to go to war.
(From Newsday, Quoting Vice-President Cheney)
A hat-tip to Occam's Tweezer
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