People, I am going to swear in this post. I give you this sentence right at the very beginning of the post as a warning. No, I'm not going to lj-cut this. Why?
Because I am sick unto bloody death of people repeating the same neo-con bullfuckingshit talking points about John Kerry, that's why.
No he didn't.
The resolution in question of October 11th, 2002 authorized the President to use force if necessary;
it did not direct the President to go to war.
"As the President made clear earlier this week, 'Approving this resolution does not mean that military action is imminent or unavoidable'." - Sen. John Kerry, October 9th, 2002
- Kerry voted against the $87 billion! Didn't he want the troops to get the funding they needed?
Get your head out of your ass. Of course he wanted the troops to have the funding they needed, and still do need.
"The way we help the soldiers and the way we help them win this is to be smart about who's participating and how we're spending the money." - Sen. John Kerry, October 17th, 2003
Oh, go grab a Thorazine Big Gulp, will ya? Here: nobody and I mean nobody refutes this bilge as well as
this site. In fact, I'm going to cut and paste their entire refutation of this gibbering nonsense.
"Kerry has consistently maintained his position on how the Iraq situation should be handled. His criticisms have become more strongly worded as it has become increasingly clear how badly George Bush has mishandled the situation, but his stance has remained the same. Kerry had stated for years that Saddam Hussein was a serious problem, and had advocated for strong and effective action. He was also crystal-clear that a key component of effective action was to use diplomacy to step up the international pressure on Hussein to permit inspections and to disarm. Direct military intervention was to be used only as the final option. He made it clear in his October 9th, 2002 statement (days before the vote on the authorization of the use of force) that he understood President Bush to share the commitment to using military force only as a last resort, and to making every effort to bring allies into the effort.
During the run-up to war, Kerry spoke out repeatedly against George Bush's headlong rush to invasion. Since Bush declared "Mission Accomplished," Kerry has clearly pointed out the failures of Bush's Iraq policy -- the same failures which Kerry warned against in the period leading up to the war.
Kerry always supported the goal of disarming Saddam Hussein, but he was also clear that there were right ways and wrong ways to do it. Kerry has also consistently stated that he does not believe President Bush exhausted the alternatives to war. The results of rushing to war prematurely are now clear in the many ways the war has been mishandled. Kerry has never wavered from his position that he voted correctly to affirm the President's authority to handle the situation, and that George Bush misused the authority and bungled the job.
Bush continually presses Kerry to change his position on these key points, and Kerry has stated repeatedly that his position is unchanged. Bush has bent over backwards to claim that Kerry's refusal to change his stance somehow counts as "flip-flopping." In fact, Kerry's position has remained steadfast."
People, you can go that site by clicking on the banner below. I SAY THIS NOW: if you feel like you simply have to vote for George Bush, then God love ya. But don't vote for him based on Republicanoid memes churned out by the neo-cons.
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