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karynnj

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3. He also authored Kerry/Feingold - but what the hell, it is so much better to attach
Tue Dec 18, 2012, 10:16 AM
Dec 2012

a strong liberal Democrat.

As to Iraq, his 2002 position was not far from Dean's - they both preferred Biden/Lugar. The difference was Kerry had to vote and he voted as he said many times to give Bush the leverage needed with Iraq. He said on January 23, 2003 that Bush should not rush to war -- and said that if they went to war at that point it would not be a war of last resort. To a Catholic, that means it would not be a just war. He repeated the comment that it was not a war of last resort throughout 2003 and 2004.

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