On the excuse that Kerry really hated the Iraq invasion because he wanted diplomacy

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81. Yeah, and then it says "That said ..."

and goes on to make an argument for why he gives in and supports it. It's not how about how the speech begins in the first paragraphs: it's about everything that follows, which I posted and you apparently failed to read. Or want to erase, or whatever. But denial doesn't help.

Read the whole speech again, in its entirety, note the date of it (two days before the invasion). It is a clear and unambiguous statement in which he says "I support" the effort to go into Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein "once and for all as a threat to his neighbors, to the world, and to his own people."

There's no ifs, ands, or buts there. It says he supports it, even despite his wish for more diplomacy and regret over Bush's botching that. He says we can't wait for the UN or other countries. He says we have to do it to protect "long-term" threats to our national security.

Please, you're a reasonable person. Kerry said this. There is no walking it back. It's in black and white in the paragraphs I posted. It may have been a stupid thing to say, but he said it. I think you need to just deal with it and move on. I have.