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July 28, 2003
Kerry Playing It Safe on WMD

Trying to avoid the high risk of criticizing the President on Iraq and WMD, presidential hopeful John Kerry is straddling the fence quite well, first by claiming that the existence of WMD was his primary motivation for supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom, second by withholding judgment as to whether or not he was deceived. The Des Moines Register quotes Kerry:

"Colin Powell told our committee the only reason we should go to war was weapons of mass destruction," said Kerry, a senator from Massachusetts and member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "Evidently they changed those parameters afterward, and we were certainly misled with respect to that component of the walk-up to the war."

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"I don't know what I'll say until I know what the circumstances are, whether it was intentional, not intentional," Kerry said last week campaigning in eastern Iowa. "They may find weapons of mass destruction in a few weeks, they may find it tomorrow, today. I don't know."

(this link from MSNBC's First Read, an excellent Election 2004 resource)



Posted by Mike Van Winkle at July 28, 2003 11:00 AM | TrackBack
Comments

Strangly enough, Kerry (as a ranking senator) had access to the same raw intelligence the president had. So either we have to believe that Kerry was duped somehow by Powell (hardly what we want in a president) or he didnt bother to study the intelligence (yikes). Not a tenable position senator.

Posted by: Mark Buehner at July 28, 2003 11:50 AM

We probably inadvertantly tip, some of these liberal wingnuts, off.

Posted by: Jeff B at July 28, 2003 04:38 PM

I am so not voting for Kerry

Posted by: MASS voter at July 29, 2003 04:21 PM

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