Reply #8: No, I didn't!

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http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/09/kerry.iraq/

Kerry stands by 'yes' vote on Iraq war
Bush challenges Democrat on stance

Tuesday, August 10, 2004 Posted: 12:04 AM EDT (0404 GMT)

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Arizona (CNN) -

Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry said Monday he would not have changed his vote
to authorize the war against Iraq, but said he would have handled things "very differently"
from President Bush.

The U.S. senator from Massachusetts said the congressional resolution gave Bush "the right authority for the president to have."

But he told reporters on a campaign swing through Arizona, "I would have done this very differently from the way President Bush has." He challenged Bush to answer four questions.

"My question to President Bush is why did he rush to war without a plan to win the peace?" Kerry asked. "Why did he rush to war on faulty intelligence and not do the hard work necessary to give America the truth?

"Why did he mislead America about how he would go to war? Why has he not brought other countries to the table in order to support American troops in the way that we deserve it and relieve a pressure from the American people?

"There are four, not hypothetical questions like the president's, but real questions that matter to Americans," Kerry said. "And I hope you'll get the answers to those questions because the American people deserve them."

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I know he's changed his tune but it wasn't for quite awhile.

And if you read this, he isn't really saying not to go to war.
He's giving reasons for his vote of yes.

John Kerry's Statement on Iraq Before the War
TEXT FROM THE SPEECH JOHN KERRY MADE ON THE SENATE FLOOR
October 9, 2002
http://www.independentsforkerry.org/uploads/media/kerry-iraq.html

I just believe, even from what he said on the floor in 2002, that he should have voted NO.
He stated all the reasons to vote no in the above speech.