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Another Day Another Position
| Mon, 09-06-2004 - 7:08pm |
Only 57 more to go. :~0
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&u=/nm/20040906/pl_nm/campaign_kerry_dc&printer=1
Renee ~~~

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You are so right and I just copied this from another poster which explains it as you have and as I myself have so many times and it is like no one is listening. It is like talking to air.
Doesn't look to me like his position has changed. He's said all along that he didn't vote FOR the war; Mr. Kerry voted in favor of the Senate resolution authorizing GWB to invade Iraq as an absolute LAST resort, when all other avenues were exhausted. Nor did he vote against funding the troops, he voted against funding the troops with NO OVERSIGHT whatsoever....didn't believe (and neither do I) that a blank check should be issued for BILLIONS. And anyway, regardless of Kerry's vote, GWB got his funding......and it's been mismanaged, money is unaccounted for, and the troops STILL do not have their body armor!
liberalmama65
who I quoted. She and I and you and others have tried to get this point across so many times. Anyway, just wanted to give credit where it is due. At least three of us here have done our best to get through the cloud of repetitive rhetoric about the "first he voted for the war and then against it" b.s.
"I actually voted for the $87 billion before I voted against it!".
Sorry, we've all heard Kerry's spin on this-he keeps claiming that he did not want to go in without the consent of the UN-that's simply not true-he authorized the president to use force when EVERYONE knew that France, Russia and Germany had no intention of agreeing to it. Kerry himself (and Edwards as well) has been quoted as saying that even if we did not get UN approval we could not allow Saddam to defy the resolutions-that we must act alone if necessary. Let's face it, he wanted the war just as much as Bush did when he thought it was going to make the President and the Congress look like conquering heroes-once things proved a little more complicated he jumped ship with the rest of the rats. Now that he wants to lok commander-chief-like, he claimed that knowing EVERYTHING HE KNOWS NOW, he would not have voted differently. Oh wait a mintue, that was last week. This week he's saying that the whole thing was wrong (in order to be able to make a "clever" slogan out of the President's middle initial.) The bottom line is, he takes whatever position his campaign advisors tell him to take that day-it's obvious and it is (depsite the left's wailing about the now blown over swifty ads) the MAIN reason he is slipping in the polls. His biggest slip is in the area of national security-my guess is it has to do with his wobbly positions on the issues, not on the swiftys' accusations.
No, actually he voted against it (by his own admission) because he wanted to attach a big tax increase to the bill-using the needs of our troops in combat for political purposes. Americans can see through his spin on that one too.
Perhaps we just have a different opinion on which direction the clouds of b.s. are coming from...
One more time-it had nothing to do with oversight-it had to do with the big tax hike Kerry wanted attached to the bill-THAT'S what President Bush wanted no part of.
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