Our very selective outrage over "moral obscenities"

[karynnj]

69. He called the Iraq war immoral

at the 2006 Take Back America - https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC4QtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DEfetW7VMOdw&ei=nj4cUtmBBYii9QS96oDADA&usg=AFQjCNHjAHyd0aY_wVWtaehBB8UXDChkEw&sig2=2iXyLlLQT0OY_lYu9pF7ww&bvm=bv.51156542,d.eWU As to Fallujah, there were claims but it was never mainstream information that WP was used -- and that was in November 2004. At that point, it is not clear that Kerry speaking out would be even reported or taken seriously.

Now, before you say why not earlier - consider that he actually said as much in 2003 and 2004 while running for President. In those years, he did not bluntly say it was "immoral" as he did in 2006, he instead used words that meant it was immoral. Throughout that time, he constantly - more than once a day - spoke of Bush not going to war as a "last resort". This was familiar language to anyone raised as Catholic - and as the Pope himself said, the war in Iraq was not a war of last resort - thus it was illegal. (In 2006, Kerry spoke at Pepperdine University on faith and how it informs politics - and he there spoke of the Catholic concept of just war - and listed why it wasn't.