Friday, June 16, 2006

Kerry's Many Ways

Here's James Taranto's list of Sen. John Kerry's constantly wavering views on Iraq:

"The threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real, but as I said, it is not new. It has been with us since the end of that war, and particularly in the last four years we know after Operation Desert Fox failed to force him to reaccept them, that he has continued to build those weapons. He has had a free hand for four years to reconstitute these weapons, allowing the world, during the interval, to lose the focus we had on weapons of mass destruction and the issue of proliferation."--Oct. 9, 2002

"Yea."--vote on authorizing military force to liberate Iraq,
Oct. 12, 2002

"Even having botched the diplomacy, it is the duty of any president, in the final analysis, to defend this nation and dispel the security threat. . . . Saddam Hussein has brought military action upon himself by refusing for 12 years to comply with the mandates of the United Nations."--
March 18, 2003

"The vote is the vote. I voted to authorize. It was the right vote, and the reason I mentioned the threat is that we gave the--we had to give life to the threat... So I think we did the right thing. I'm convinced we did."--
Sept. 9, 2003

"Nay."--vote on $87 billion to fund operations in Afghanistan and Iraq,
Oct. 17, 2003

"I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it."--
March 16, 2004

"The president made a mistake in invading Iraq."--
Sept. 30, 2004

"No."--answer to Jim Lehrer's question "Are Americans now dying in Iraq for a mistake?," Sept. 30, 2004

" I was wrong to vote for that Iraqi resolution."--June 13, 2006

We were right in the election, Kerry is a flip-flopper, big time. This should be in the dictionary

Flip-Flop: Beach footware, or John Kerry.

The Washington Times echoes my view.