... Congressmen often use the ploy of attaching an
unacceptable amendment to a bill in order to torpedo the bill itself.

"Thank you for contacting me to express your opposition ... to
the early use of military force by the US against Iraq. I share your
concerns. On January 11, I voted in favor of a resolution that would
have insisted that economic sanctions be given more time to work and
against a resolution giving the president the immediate authority to go
to war." letter from Senator John Kerry to Wallace Carter of Newton
Centre, Massachusetts, dated January 22 [1991]

And at the same time, he wrote this:

"Thank you very much for contacting me to express your support
for the actions of President Bush in response to the Iraqi invasion of
Kuwait. From the outset of the invasion, I have strongly and
unequivocally supported President Bush's response to the crisis and the
policy goals he has established with our military deployment in the
Persian Gulf." Senator Kerry to Wallace Carter, January 31 [1991]

Nov 12, 1997: In response to a question about unanimity over a U.N.
resolution, kerry responded: where's the backbone of Russia, where's
the backbone of France, where are they in expressing their condemnation
of such clearly illegal activity, but in a sense, they're now climbing
into a box and they will have enormous difficulty not following up on
this if there is not compliance by Iraq....It was disappointing a month
ago not to have the French and the Russians understanding that they
shouldn't give any signals of weakening on the sanctions and I think
those signals would have helped bring about this crisis because they
permitted Saddam Hussein to interpret that maybe the moment was right
for him to make this challenge. crossfire

Feb 23, 1998: "Saddam Hussein has already used these weapons and has
made it clear that he has the intent to continue to try, by virtue of
his duplicity and secrecy, to continue to do so. That is a threat to the
stability of the Middle East. It is a threat with respect to the
potential of terrorist activities on a global basis. It is a threat even
to regions near but not exactly in the Middle East." The Disgrace of
John Kerry by Kevin Willmann Saturday, April 05, 2003

Oct 9, 1998: "We urge you, after consulting with Congress, and
consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary
actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect
Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's
refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs." Letter to
President Clinton, signed by Sens. Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry,
and others.

Oct 10, 1998: "We know from our largely unsuccessful attempts to enlist
the cooperation of other nations, especially industrialized trading
nations, in efforts to impose and enforce somewhat more ambitious
standards on nations such as Iran, China, Burma and Syria, that the
willingness of most other nations — including a number who are joined in
the sanctions to isolate Iraq — is neither wide nor deep to join in
imposing sanctions on a sovereign nation to spur it to `clean up its
act' and comport its actions with accepted international norms." Senate
Floor Speech Try to figure out what he just said there!

Sep 6, 2002: "If Saddam Hussein is unwilling to bend to the
international community's already existing order, then he will have
invited enforcement, even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of
the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails
to act." Op-Ed, "We Still Have A Choice On Iraq," The New York Times

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."
Senate Speech

Oct 9, 2002: "The threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass
destruction is real, but as I said, it is not new. It has been with us
since the end of that war, and particularly in the last 4 years we know
after Operation Desert Fox failed to force him to reaccept them, that he
has continued to build those weapons. He has had a free hand for 4 years
to reconstitute these weapons, allowing the world, during the interval,
to lose the focus we had on weapons of mass destruction and the issue of
proliferation."

Oct 9, 2002: The Iraqi regime's record over the decade leaves little
doubt that Saddam Hussein wants to retain his arsenal of weapons of mass
destruction and to expand it to include nuclear weapons. We cannot allow
him to prevail in that quest. johnkerry.com speeches (Thanks Scot!)

Oct 9, 2002: "Regime change has been an American policy under the
Clinton administration, and it is the current policy. I support the
policy. But regime change in and of itself is not sufficient
justification for going to war--particularly unilaterally--unless regime
change is the only way to disarm Iraq of the weapons of mass destruction
pursuant to the United Nations resolution." Speech on senate floor
(Thanks Aaron)

Jan 23, 2003: "Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He
is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He
presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently
prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's
response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of
mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of
mass destruction is real..."

Sep 14, 2003: “I don’t think anyone in the Congress is going to not
give our troops ammunition, not give our troops the ability to be able
to defend themselves. We’re not going to cut and run and not do the
job.” (CBS’ “Face The Nation,”) (watch)

Sep 14, 2003: “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. What is
responsible is for the administration to do this properly now.” (CBS’
“Face The Nation,”) (watch)

Dec 2, 2003: Did I expect George Bush to ***** it up as badly as he did?
I don't think anybody did. Now that's what I call presidential!
www.johnkerry.com

Dec 15, 2003: "Iraq may not be the war on terror itself, but it is
critical to the outcome of the war on terror, and therefore any advance
in Iraq is an advance forward in that..."

Jan 30, 2004: "I think there has been an exaggeration," Mr. Kerry said
when asked whether President Bush has overstated the threat of
terrorism. "They are misleading all Americans in a profound way."
washtims (Thanks Michael!)

Mar 16, 2004: "I actually did vote for his $87 billion, before I voted
against it." Newsmax (Listen) (Listen)

Mar 17, 2004: "For a President, the decision may be lonely, but that
does not mean that America should go it alone." (Remarks At George
Washington University, Washington, DC)

Apr 7, 2004: When speaking of terrorist Shiite imam Muqtada al-Sadr's
newspaper, which was shut down by coalition forces last week after it
urged violence against U.S. troops, Kerry complained to National Public
Radio, "They shut a newspaper that belongs to a legitimate voice in
Iraq." Then, finding another way to parallel what Ted Kennedy was saying
this week: "If all we do is make war against the Iraqi people and
continue an American occupation, fundamentally, without a clarity as to
who and how sovereignty is being turned over, we have a very serious
problem for the long run here" newsmax Well, it's clear that the Iman
enjoys the support of JFK and Ted Kennedy:
Shiite terrorist leader Muqtada al-Sadr was so impressed with Sen. Ted
Kennedy's portrayal of the war in Iraq as "George Bush's Vietnam," he's
picked up the theme himself.

"Iraq will be another Vietnam for America and the occupiers," al-Sadr
said in a statement issued from his office in Najaf.

Al-Sadr's remark mirrored Kennedy's own anti-war blast, when he told the
Brookings Institution, "Iraq is George Bush's Vietnam."

"I call upon the American people to stand beside their brethren, the
Iraqi people, who are suffering an injustice by your rulers and the
occupying army, to help them in the transfer of power to honest Iraqis,"
the al-Sadr statement continued, according to the Associated Press.

No doubt Sen. Kennedy will echo the al-Sadr sentiment in his next
address. newsmax

April 27, 2004: Just a few weeks ago in a speech, he said: "George
Bush sold us on going to war with Iraq based on the threat of weapons of
mass destruction. But we still haven't found them. ... We were misled
about weapons of mass destruction." But there's a different view today.
"It appears, as they peel away the weapons of mass destruction issue -
and we may yet find them," newsmax

May 11, 2004: "What has happened is not just something that a few, you
know, privates and corporals or sergeants engaged in." newsmax Once
again, showing how you can disregard the facts, creating your own in
order to score points with the demon-crat supporters...

May 13, 2004: "I will fight a more effective war on terror because I
would never have thrown out of the door or window the obligations of the
Geneva Conventions," newsmax Aha! So the prison guards were told not
to follow the Geneva Convention??!!?? And secondly, how does this make
you more effective at the war on terror?? JFK, I question your
intelligence.

July 8, 2004: On Larry King Live, King asked: News of the day, Tom
Ridge warned today about al Qaeda plans of a large-scale attack on the
United States. Didn't increase the -- you see any politics in this?
What's your reaction? to which JFK responded, "Well, I haven't been
briefed yet, Larry. They have offered to brief me. I just haven't had
time." Gee, sorry you've been so busy that you have felt that
fundraisers were more important than you keeping up-to-date with
national security...

July 26, 2004: "You don't value families if you force them to take up a
collection to buy body armor for a son or daughter in the service."
newsmax Gee, and to think you voted AGAINST getting the body armor for
the troops....

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