Reply #67: No he didn't - where were you in 2004

[karynnj]

when he said "wrong war ..." at least a million times (Links: "wrong war..." http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/090804Z.shtml ) and that "Bush misled the country to war, without exhausting the diplomacy, without letting the inspectors complete their work ....." and that "it was not a war of last resort". Maybe you were didn't get it, but I actually know Bush voters mad till this day that Kerry questioned whether a war we were fighting was not only the right thing to do, but whether it was a just war (when a war is not a war of last resort it is not just).

Kerry said on January 2003, "Don't rush to war" at Georgetown University. This is January 23 2003 - "the United States should never go to war because it wants to, the United States should go to war because we have to. And we don't have to until we have exhausted the remedies available, built legitimacy and earned the consent of the American people…We need to make certain that we have not unnecessarily twisted so many arms, created so many reluctant partners, abused the trust of Congress, or strained so many relations, that the longer term and more immediate vital war on terror is made more difficult…I say to the President, show respect for the process of international diplomacy because it is not only right, it can make America stronger - and show the world some appropriate patience in building a genuine coalition. Mr. President, do not rush to war.’ http://kerry.senate.gov/v3/cfm/record.cfm?id=248761 That link makes the case that Bush mislead us to war.

Kerry spoke of needing regime change at home in the wake of the invasion when the war had the approval of 70% of the country.


Here is a link to Kerry speaking in Dec 2003 - http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/121003A.shtml - where he says he wouldn't have gone to war.

The only thing that changed in 2005 - was that he was willing then to state that not only was the war wrong - a position he had before the war started, but that voting for the IWR was wrong. Kerry - unlike much of DU - did not conflate the too and before that he defended his reasons for voting as he did.


How many times do you need to be get links to these things.