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09-29-2004, 12:19 PM
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John Forbes Kerry’s Top Eleven Positions on the war in Iraq
NUMBER 11
October 2002:
BOMBS AWAY!
Kerry and Edwards voted for the Congressional
resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq.
(H. J. Res. 114, CQ Vote #237: Passed 77-23: R 48-1; D 29-21; I 0-1, 10/11/02, Kerry Voted Yea)
NUMBER 10
April 2003:
BUT, WAIT! HE THOUGHT HE WAS VOTING FOR “REGIME CHANGE” IN THE UNITED STATES
Kerry Promised Not To Attack President When War Began, But Weeks Later, With Troops Just Miles From Baghdad, Kerry Broke His Pledge And Called For "Regime Change In The United States."
(Glen Johnson, "Democrats On The Stump Plot Their War Rhetoric," The Boston Globe, 3/11/03; Glen Johnson, "Kerry Says Us Needs Its Own ‘Regime Change,’" The Boston Globe, 4/3/03)
NUMBER 9
May 2003:
OH, OKAY, WELL REGIME CHANGE IN IRAQ IS JUST AS GOOD
SENATOR JOHN FORBES KERRY: "I said at the time I would have preferred if we had given diplomacy a greater opportunity, but I think it was the right decision to disarm Saddam Hussein, and when the President made the decision, I supported him, and I support the fact that we did disarm him."
(ABC News, Democrat Presidential Candidate Debate, Columbia, SC, 5/3/03)
NUMBER 8
September 2003:
SUPPORTING THE WAR IS IRRESPONSIBLE
Kerry Said Voting Against The $87 Billion
Supplemental Would Be "Irresponsible."
DOYLE McMANUS (LA TIMES): "If that amendment does not pass, will you then vote against the $87 billion?"
SENATOR JOHN FORBES KERRY: "I don't think any United States senator is going to abandon our troops and recklessly leave Iraq to - to whatever follows as a result of simply cutting and running. That's irresponsible."
(CBS’s "Face the Nation," 9/14/03)
NUMBER 7
October 2003:
REALLY, WHO NEEDS SUPPLIES TO FIGHT A WAR?
Kerry Voted Against The $87 Billion Supplemental Supporting Our Troops.
(S. 1689, CQ Vote #400: Passed 87-12: R 50-0; D 37-11; I 0-1, 10/17/03, Kerry Voted Nay)
NUMBER 6
January 2004:
HE VOTES FOR THAT IN WHICH HE DOES NOT BELIEVE.
After Voting For War And Trailing Candidate Howard Dean In
The Democrat Primaries, Kerry Says He Is Anti-War Candidate.
CHRIS MATTHEWS (MSNBC HARDBALL): "Do you think you belong to that category of candidates who more or less are unhappy with this war, the way it’s been fought, along with General Clark, along with Howard Dean and not necessarily in companionship politically on the issue of the war with people like Lieberman, Edwards and Gephardt? Are you one of the anti-war candidates?"
SENATOR JOHN FORBES KERRY: "I am -- Yes, in the sense that I don’t believe the president took us to war as he should have, yes, absolutely."
(MSNBC’s "Hardball," 1/6/04)
NUMBER 5
August 2004:
HE VOTES FOR THAT WHICH HE IS AGAINST, PART DEUX
In Response To President’s Question About How He Would Have Voted If He Knew Then What He Knows Now, Kerry Confirmed That He Would Still Have Voted For Use Of Force Resolution.
SENATOR JOHN FORBES KERRY: "Yes, I would have voted for the authority. I believe it's the right authority for a president to have. But I would have used that authority as I have said throughout this campaign, effectively. I would have done this very differently from the way President Bush has."
(CNN’s "Inside Politics," 8/9/04)
NUMBER 4
September 2004:
THE WAR IS WRONG – EVEN THOUGH I VOTED FOR IT.
"Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry on Monday called the invasion of Iraq ‘the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time’ and said his goal was to withdraw U.S. troops in his first White House term."
(Patricia Wilson, " Kerry on Iraq: Wrong War, Wrong Place, Wrong Time", Reuters, 9/6/04)
NUMBER 3
September 2004:
NO CIRCUMSTANCES WARRANTED INVASION – BUT, STILL, I VOTED FOR IT.
Kerry Says There Were No Circumstances Under Which We Should Have
Gone To War, But He Was Still Right To Vote For It.
DON IMUS (IMUS IN THE MORNING): "Do you think there are any circumstances we should have gone to war in Iraq, any?"
SENATOR JOHN FORBES KERRY: "Not under the current circumstances, no. There are none that I see. I voted based on weapons of mass destruction. The President distorted that, and I've said that. I mean, look, I can't be clearer. But I think it was the right vote based on what Saddam Hussein had done, and I think it was the right thing to do to hold him accountable. I've said a hundred times, there was a right way to do it and a wrong way to do it. The president chose the wrong way. Can't be more direct than that."
(MSNBC's "Imus In The Morning," 9/15/04)
NUMBER 2
September 2004:
WAR IS DANGEROUS AND IT SCARES HIM
Kerry Said That The Removal Of Saddam Hussein
Has Left America "Less Secure."
SENATOR JOHN FORBES KERRY: "Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator who deserves his own special place in hell. But that was not, that was not in and of itself, a reason to go to war. The satisfaction - The satisfaction that we take in his downfall does not hide this fact: we have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure."
(Hey, wasn’t it Senator Kerry that said anyone who thinks deposing Saddam Hussein hadn’t made America more secure was an idiot?)
(Sen. John Kerry, Remarks At New York University, New York, NY, 9/20/04)
AND,
THE NUMBER 1,
LATEST, GREATEST KERRY POSITION
ON THE WAR IN IRAQ IS…(drum roll please)…
This morning:
HE’S FOR IT OR AGAINST IT, DEPENDING ON THE OUTCOME
Kerry On Whether The Iraq War Was Worth It:
"It Depends On The Outcome."
DIANE SAWYER (GOOD MORNING AMERICA): "Was the war in Iraq worth it?"
SENATOR JOHN FORBES KERRY: "We should not have gone to war knowing the information that we know today."
DIANE SAWYER (GOOD MORNING AMERICA): "So it was not worth it?"
SENATOR JOHN FORBES KERRY: "We should not - it depends on the outcome ultimately, and that depends on the leadership."
(ABC’s "Good Morning America," 9/29/04)
John Forbes Kerry’s Top Eleven Positions on the war in Iraq
NUMBER 11
October 2002:
BOMBS AWAY!
Kerry and Edwards voted for the Congressional
resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq.
(H. J. Res. 114, CQ Vote #237: Passed 77-23: R 48-1; D 29-21; I 0-1, 10/11/02, Kerry Voted Yea)
NUMBER 10
April 2003:
BUT, WAIT! HE THOUGHT HE WAS VOTING FOR “REGIME CHANGE” IN THE UNITED STATES
Kerry Promised Not To Attack President When War Began, But Weeks Later, With Troops Just Miles From Baghdad, Kerry Broke His Pledge And Called For "Regime Change In The United States."
(Glen Johnson, "Democrats On The Stump Plot Their War Rhetoric," The Boston Globe, 3/11/03; Glen Johnson, "Kerry Says Us Needs Its Own ‘Regime Change,’" The Boston Globe, 4/3/03)
NUMBER 9
May 2003:
OH, OKAY, WELL REGIME CHANGE IN IRAQ IS JUST AS GOOD
SENATOR JOHN FORBES KERRY: "I said at the time I would have preferred if we had given diplomacy a greater opportunity, but I think it was the right decision to disarm Saddam Hussein, and when the President made the decision, I supported him, and I support the fact that we did disarm him."
(ABC News, Democrat Presidential Candidate Debate, Columbia, SC, 5/3/03)
NUMBER 8
September 2003:
SUPPORTING THE WAR IS IRRESPONSIBLE
Kerry Said Voting Against The $87 Billion
Supplemental Would Be "Irresponsible."
DOYLE McMANUS (LA TIMES): "If that amendment does not pass, will you then vote against the $87 billion?"
SENATOR JOHN FORBES KERRY: "I don't think any United States senator is going to abandon our troops and recklessly leave Iraq to - to whatever follows as a result of simply cutting and running. That's irresponsible."
(CBS’s "Face the Nation," 9/14/03)
NUMBER 7
October 2003:
REALLY, WHO NEEDS SUPPLIES TO FIGHT A WAR?
Kerry Voted Against The $87 Billion Supplemental Supporting Our Troops.
(S. 1689, CQ Vote #400: Passed 87-12: R 50-0; D 37-11; I 0-1, 10/17/03, Kerry Voted Nay)
NUMBER 6
January 2004:
HE VOTES FOR THAT IN WHICH HE DOES NOT BELIEVE.
After Voting For War And Trailing Candidate Howard Dean In
The Democrat Primaries, Kerry Says He Is Anti-War Candidate.
CHRIS MATTHEWS (MSNBC HARDBALL): "Do you think you belong to that category of candidates who more or less are unhappy with this war, the way it’s been fought, along with General Clark, along with Howard Dean and not necessarily in companionship politically on the issue of the war with people like Lieberman, Edwards and Gephardt? Are you one of the anti-war candidates?"
SENATOR JOHN FORBES KERRY: "I am -- Yes, in the sense that I don’t believe the president took us to war as he should have, yes, absolutely."
(MSNBC’s "Hardball," 1/6/04)
NUMBER 5
August 2004:
HE VOTES FOR THAT WHICH HE IS AGAINST, PART DEUX
In Response To President’s Question About How He Would Have Voted If He Knew Then What He Knows Now, Kerry Confirmed That He Would Still Have Voted For Use Of Force Resolution.
SENATOR JOHN FORBES KERRY: "Yes, I would have voted for the authority. I believe it's the right authority for a president to have. But I would have used that authority as I have said throughout this campaign, effectively. I would have done this very differently from the way President Bush has."
(CNN’s "Inside Politics," 8/9/04)
NUMBER 4
September 2004:
THE WAR IS WRONG – EVEN THOUGH I VOTED FOR IT.
"Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry on Monday called the invasion of Iraq ‘the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time’ and said his goal was to withdraw U.S. troops in his first White House term."
(Patricia Wilson, " Kerry on Iraq: Wrong War, Wrong Place, Wrong Time", Reuters, 9/6/04)
NUMBER 3
September 2004:
NO CIRCUMSTANCES WARRANTED INVASION – BUT, STILL, I VOTED FOR IT.
Kerry Says There Were No Circumstances Under Which We Should Have
Gone To War, But He Was Still Right To Vote For It.
DON IMUS (IMUS IN THE MORNING): "Do you think there are any circumstances we should have gone to war in Iraq, any?"
SENATOR JOHN FORBES KERRY: "Not under the current circumstances, no. There are none that I see. I voted based on weapons of mass destruction. The President distorted that, and I've said that. I mean, look, I can't be clearer. But I think it was the right vote based on what Saddam Hussein had done, and I think it was the right thing to do to hold him accountable. I've said a hundred times, there was a right way to do it and a wrong way to do it. The president chose the wrong way. Can't be more direct than that."
(MSNBC's "Imus In The Morning," 9/15/04)
NUMBER 2
September 2004:
WAR IS DANGEROUS AND IT SCARES HIM
Kerry Said That The Removal Of Saddam Hussein
Has Left America "Less Secure."
SENATOR JOHN FORBES KERRY: "Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator who deserves his own special place in hell. But that was not, that was not in and of itself, a reason to go to war. The satisfaction - The satisfaction that we take in his downfall does not hide this fact: we have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure."
(Hey, wasn’t it Senator Kerry that said anyone who thinks deposing Saddam Hussein hadn’t made America more secure was an idiot?)
(Sen. John Kerry, Remarks At New York University, New York, NY, 9/20/04)
AND,
THE NUMBER 1,
LATEST, GREATEST KERRY POSITION
ON THE WAR IN IRAQ IS…(drum roll please)…
This morning:
HE’S FOR IT OR AGAINST IT, DEPENDING ON THE OUTCOME
Kerry On Whether The Iraq War Was Worth It:
"It Depends On The Outcome."
DIANE SAWYER (GOOD MORNING AMERICA): "Was the war in Iraq worth it?"
SENATOR JOHN FORBES KERRY: "We should not have gone to war knowing the information that we know today."
DIANE SAWYER (GOOD MORNING AMERICA): "So it was not worth it?"
SENATOR JOHN FORBES KERRY: "We should not - it depends on the outcome ultimately, and that depends on the leadership."
(ABC’s "Good Morning America," 9/29/04)