Bush's Mocking Drowns Out Kerry's Explanation of Iraq Vote

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/12/politics/campaign/12memo.html

Bush's Mocking Drowns Out Kerry's Explanation of Iraq Vote
By DAVID E. SANGER

ASHINGTON, Aug. 11 - For five days now, as the long-distance arguments between President Bush and Senator John Kerry have focused on the wisdom of invading Iraq, Mr. Kerry has struggled to convince his audiences that his vote to authorize the president to use military force was a far, far cry from voting for a declaration of war.

So far, his aides and advisers concede, he has failed to get his message across, as Mr. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have mocked his efforts as "a new nuance" that amount to more examples of the senator's waffling.<snip>

Mr. Bush, sensing he had ensnared Mr. Kerry, stuck in the knife on Tuesday, telling a rally in Panama City, Fla., that "he now agrees it was the right decision to go into Iraq." The Kerry camp says that interpretation of Mr. Kerry's words completely distorted the difference between a vote to authorize war and a decision to commit troops to the battlefield.<snip>

"I wish he had simply said no president in his right mind would ask the Senate to go to war against a country that didn't have weapons that pose an imminent threat," said one of Mr. Kerry's Congressional colleagues and occasional advisers. <snip>

Such distinctions don't exactly ring as campaign themes. On Wednesday, Vice President Cheney did his best to worsen Mr. Kerry's troubles. He issued a statement noting that Mr. Kerry "voted for the war" but turned against it "when it was politically expedient" and now has his aides "saying that his vote to authorize force wasn't really a vote to go to war."

"Rushing to war is one, doing it without enough allies is two, doing it without equipping our troops adequately is three, and doing it without an adequate plan to win the peace is a fourth," Mr. Beers said. "If you want to add a fifth, it's going to war without examining the quality of your intelligence."<snip>

[madrchsod]

1. kerry should ask bush

where he was in alabama.kerry should ask bush why he didn`t show up for guard duty for 5 months.kerry should ask bush why he checked the box saying he wouldn`t fight overseas. kerry should show these documents to every veterans group he speaks to and kerry should show the these documents to the american people.
the rove machine are doing the same thing as they did to max..kerry`s people should listen to big dog-attack these motherfuckers

[Catfight]

2. Kerry needs to stop worrying about the rantings and ravings of two

lunatics who lied to the entire congress..republicans and democrats. I think Kerry gets caught up in minor details, instead of hitting home that this administration has a history of misrepresenting facts, therefore, making it difficult to make the best decisions for America, which Kerry, if he becomes President will put an end too that sort of politics. The issue isn't about 'should' we have, we did, the issue is about, bad decisions based on bad information from a poor president that doesn't tell the whole story and wants to play the blame game.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. All Fear The Great Bush....

he's a mastermind...


not....

[Cha]

4. Then "bush's mocking" is Backfiring...

because Kerry is gaining ahead..and now in Florida I see.