Kerry needs to step it up a notch...Did NOT 'vote for war'

[They_LIHOP]

These are all 'good things to have done differently' and all ...

BUT!

Kerry needs to start firing up some friggin political nukes here instead of the damn pop-guns!

Bushco have F***ED up the Iraq situation SO BADLY that the situation is ripe to REALLY lay into them.

However, his first move must be to CLARIFY, once and for all, that he DID NOT VOTE 'FOR THE WAR'. He voted to give the President the POWER to CHOOSE war, if he felt it necessary to protect America. To allow the GOP to continue to frame it like he 'voted for war', as though he was ACTIVELY ADVOCATING WAR, is not only a HUGE mistake, the cause of MOST of his problems, but it is also FALSE. He needs to clear up this misunderstanding much more adamantly so that EVERYONE understands the distinction.

He needs to clarify for the American People that he voted the way he did in hopes of AVOIDING WAR, by giving Saddam the impression that he had better open up to inspections, OR ELSE. This was a 'unity' vote, pure and simple, in order to not tie Bush's hands before Saddam, or the UN, by making it appear that Bush had all options open to him, including invasion.

He needs to clarify as well that it was not only he who opposed the $84Billion funding package, but also Bush himself, who threatened to veto it IF he was not given a COMPLETELY free hand on how to allot the Reconstruction portion of the package. This aspect of the package (NOT the portion that was 'for the troops') was THE REASON Kerry voted against the bill, and it DID NOT keep the bill from passing, now, did it? I believe that this was a SOLID vote, based on PRINCIPLE. Congress SHOULD have say over that Reconstruction (OUR) money, but it was Bush who threatened veto if he didn't get his little freakin' 'way'.

Kerry, if you are out there, you NEED TO GET THIS CLEARED UP, bud, cause you are getting eaten alive on this $hit. Which is REALLY DUMB when its SO F***ING easy to clear the air on your votes.

The People will understand the TRUTH, because you voted with HONOR and intelligence, BUT - you need to GIVE IT TO THEM, RIGHT NOW!

THEN, you may fire the political NUKES at these clowns for their wholly foreseeable blunders: their blatant crony capitalism via no-bid contracts for their buddies, the total lack of planning for peace, and ESPECIALLY the missing $8 Billion of Iraqi oil money that was under CPA control...

[Liberal Veteran]

1. May I suggest you peruse Late Breaking News?

Your wish has already been granted.

[Liberal Veteran]

2. Here!

Fighting back, Democratic Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) called President Bush (news - web sites) "unfit to lead this nation" because of the war in Iraq (news - web sites) and his record on jobs, health care and energy prices. He lashed out at the incumbent and Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) for avoiding service in the Vietnam War.


"I'm not going to have my commitment to defend this country questioned by those who refused to serve when they could have and by those who have misled the nation into Iraq," Kerry said in prepared remarks issued as the Republican was poised to accept his party's nomination for a second term.

[They_LIHOP]

3. I don't think that is quite good enough - for me personally...

Not to be picky, but I'm referring to the SPECIFIC POINT

"Kerry voted for the war"

that the 'pukes keep trying to make over and over and over.

I personally, strongly believe that JFK needs to clarify that he DID NOT 'vote for the war', and explain exactly why he voted as he did, encompassing the main points I made above.

He needs to say that he tried to AVOID war by giving * "the power of US unity and resolve, so that Saddam would allow the inspectors in, fearful of war".

NOT that he voted the way he did because he WANTED WAR. He wanted INSPECTORS, and thought that the only way SH would let them in was if he was AFRAID of WAR. If the Congress was DIVIDED on that resolution, then war would have been MORE LIKELY, because SH would have doubted our resolve.

He needs to explain that he HONESTLY THOUGHT that * had a completely different plan, which was to successfully threaten SH into allowing in the inspectors. Hell, that's what I was hoping against hope was really going on myself, even though I kinda knew it wasn't ;)

It's all perfectly logical, and I think the US people would understand it if he explains it right...

This way, he frees his hand to attack * on the WHOLE THING.

Why he hasn't done it yet, I am completely baffled. Seems so OBVIOUS to me...

[Liberal Veteran]

4. He already did. Perhaps you weren't paying attention?

Or perhaps you just prefer to bitch and whine and play armchair campaign manager?


"When it comes to Iraq, it's not that I would have done one thing differently. I would have done almost everything differently," the senator said. "I would have relied on American troops in Tora Bora, the best troops in the world, when we had Osama bin Laden in our sights trapped in the mountains. ..

Kerry added that he would have given weapons inspectors in Iraq more time to search for weapons of mass destruction, not because inspectors would have found all the weapons, "but because by doing do, we could have brought other countries to our side." .


If you want him to be your little puppet, it ain't gonna happen.