Reply #90: I hear you. Yet, I do remember what he said and ...

[Tigress DEM]

I had a different reaction.

When he voted for the resoultion the administration had witheld critical information - even from Colin Powell, the Secretary of State. So, even as a citizen, I thought we might have to go in and take care of the situation if it really means preventing nuclear war.

When the truth came out, Kerry, was being promoted as a war hero. I mean how can you go wrong with that? One went to war, the other was AWOL? He was also being accused of flip flopping just for actually analyzing new information and making an intelligent decision to change his mind - something beyond the grasp of neo-cons.

What I heard Kerry say is that he still would have authorized the resolution with some important caveats.

#1 Work with the UN.
#2 Wait until we get more support from our allies.
#3 Be upfront about why we wanted to attack Iraq
- Saddam was committing atrocities and needed to be disposed.

With those in place on the resolution, we'd still be arguing about the election results and Iraq would have never happened.