Reply #29: First political misstep in quite a while

[George_Bonanza]

Kerry's firm statements before this was that he would've voted YES on the IWR, BASED ON EVIDENCE HE HAD THEN. This strongly, if not outright, implies that he would've voted otherwise had he known better. He has said this many times and it was his official stance for a very long time, through the early days of the primaries to right about now.

It simply makes no sense. The whole point of the IWR and Iraq was WMDs. Saddam and regime change was a lousy flip flop of the Bush team. I sincerely doubt Kerry prescribes to this doctrine of temperamental regime change at America's whim and fancy. Bush probably just invaded Iraq to show up his daddy and to compensate for his life as a failure, especially compared to his father.

I'm willing to stick to that, as opposed to what Kerry just said on the GE campaign trail. I attribute this to a campaign error and a gaff that will be fixed later on.