Kerry COVERS UP Iraq War Falsifications

[karynnj]

69. In fall of 2002, when the resolutions were voted on, Dean supported a resolution against Iraq

The resolution he is on record as being for was the SFRC Biden/Lugar - which Kerry and Hagel, on the SFRC also preferred. Bush would have used ANY resolution to go to war.

In addition, in the interviews that Dean did in 2002, he spoke of the type of resolution he would prefer if he were writing it. That resolution would have been used by Bush as well.

Here is what he said on Face the Nation on September 29, 2002, shortly before the IWR vote.


HOWARD DEAN: It’s very simple. Here’s what we ought to have done. We should have gone to the UN Security Council. We should have asked for a resolution to allow the inspectors back in with no pre-conditions. And then we should have given them a deadline, saying, ‘If you don’t do this, say, within 60 days, we will reserve our right as Americans to defend ourselves and we will go into Iraq.

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/1879
(I can't find the FTN interview as it appears to no longer be on line. This is a link to David Swanson's post of many Dean statements. Swanson was a co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org - so this should be an acceptable source for a quote that was in the mainstream media back in 2002.

Dean said he would support Biden/Lugar, Kerry's preferred resolution and there was no quote I could find in 2004 where Dean said before or even shortly after the IWR that he would vote against it. Both Kerry and Dean ruled out invasion for regime change. The biggest difference was that Kerry had to vote.

Both of them spoke out against the war. Dean gave a very strong speech at a DNC convention in February or March that Kerry did not speak at - not to avoid speaking on Iraq, but because he was recovering from cancer surgery.