Kerry and Bush on Iraq War

[DaveSZ]

http://www.progressivetrail.org/articles/040812Cole.shtml

Kerry and Bush on Iraq War

by Juan Cole

published by Informed Comment

Kerry and Bush on Iraq War

Bush asked Kerry if he would still have voted for the Iraq War if he had known in fall of 2002 everything he knows now about the non-existence of weapons of mass destruction.

Kerry said "yes," but that he would have handled things differently from Bush, giving the weapons inspectors more time to do their jobs and involving the international community, so that the US did not have to go it alone.

Carl Hulse of the New York Times writes that Bush then immediately gloated on the campaign trail in Pensacola,

"After months of questioning my motives and even my credibility, Senator Kerry now agrees with me that, even though we have not found the stockpile of weapons we all believe were there, knowing all believe were there, knowing everything we know today, he would have voted to go into Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein from power . . . I want to thank Senator Kerry for clearing that up."


-more

Read the entire thing before you flame me.

[Parche]

1. Bush

There smirk goes again, twisting words around
Kerry said he would still vote yes, in the authorization to use force
Kerry never said that he would go to war, he would have let the inspectors do their jobs.

And Bush said remove Saddam from power, I thought we went in
to get those weapons of mass deception, did he just lie to us?

[Feanorcurufinwe]

2. I like Juan Cole's stuff

http://www.juancole.com