John Kerry urges move to prevent military suicides

[karynnj]

6. What do you think "not a war of last resort" means?

Kerry used that phrase thousands of times in 2003 and 2004. He also used it in his "Do not rush to war" speech at Georgetown University, where I assume the vast majority of the students knew that it meant it would not be a just or moral war. (You might remember the first debate where Kerry answered a question on going to war with a "global test" , which was an attempt to secularize the St Augustinian definition of a just war. (At a speech in 2006 at Pepperdine University, when speaking of how his religion informed his political values he was clear that the similarity was not a coincidence.)

Moral or just goes beyond "legal". Not to mention, when they voted one promise was that Bush would go to the UN - which he did. He, Blair and the Spanish leader then opted to NOT return to the UN for a further declaration. At that point, Kerry was among the few who spoke out - as he said he would if Bush deviated from his promises. The simple fact is that Congress really can not prevent a President from going to war and once war is entered, will not second guess the President.