MWO: The problem isn't the resolution, it's Bush

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This one got lost the last couple of weeks.

http://www.mediahorse.com/ar071403.htm

Kerry's Pre-Iraq Invasion Comments Not Only Prescient
"He Was Speaking with the Clarity Expected of Presidents"

Pride, truth and war according to Kerry
Thomas Oliphant


I continue to be struck by something else in Kerry's rhetoric that is worth quoting:

''The Bush administration has a plan for waging war but no plan for winning the peace. It has invested mightily in the tools of destruction but meagerly in the tools of peaceful construction. It offers the people in the greater Middle East retribution but little hope for liberty and prosperity.

''What America needs today is a smarter, more comprehensive and far-sighted strategy for modernizing the greater Middle East. It should draw on all of our nation's strengths: military might, the world's largest economy, the immense moral prestige of freedom and democracy - and our powerful alliances.''

Increasingly common words today, but Kerry spoke them more than six months ago, two months before the war began. Like others, I gave him guff then for seeming to fudge his support for the use of force; but also like others I failed to see the power of his thinking about the link between conflict and aftermath. On this, Kerry was more than prescient; he was speaking with the clarity expected of presidents.
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Many of the media whores will continue to pretend to find contradictions in Kerry's support for the Iraq resolution and his warnings before the invasion and criticisms after.  But they are appearing more ridiculous by the day, as the truth becomes clearer to American voters: the problem is not a resolution - it is that an untrustworthy, incompetent fraud occupies the White House.