Reply #142: Can we please put the "Kerry trusted Bush" cannard to rest?

[zoeyfong]

First of all, there's no way this can be proven, one way or the other, and i just don't buy it. Just as Bush had demonstrated a pattern of deception leading up the IWR vote which should have caused Kerry to be very skeptical, so Kerry has demonstrated a pattern of trying to have it all ways on every issue, and this causes me to believe that his vote was a little more calculated than you suggest.

Secondly, *millions of people* around the world saw what Bush was up to from day one. How could Kerry *not* have known????!!!!! There were so many credible sources from within the intelligence communities speaking out and saying that the pro-war case is being greatly spun up and exaggerated (Joe Wilson, anyone?), such that john kerry should have approached that vote with *maximum skepticism,* anything less is a dereliction of his duty to his country.

Thirdly, the resolution leaves it up to Bush to decide when the UN route has been exhausted, and again, it was known to the whole world that Bush held the UN in contempt, and there was no way he was going to let the UN stop him from doing what he wanted to do. And as we know, kerry has tried to make a campaign selling point of his position that he will not give the UN 'veto power' over US national security (as if the other dems would), so why did he expect Bush to let the UN decide whether we went to war? *And* the vote was taken against a backdrop of troops being put on notice to prepare for moblization, and with increasing hostile activity occurring in the no-fly zone. The writing was on the wall in letters big enough to be seen from outer space.

Lastly, will someone who seriously believes that kerry was 'misled' please tell me why a man this dangerously naieve should be trusted to run this country?