Kerry's positions on both wars are wrong and his explanation is even bizarre, the republicans will just kill him on this.
-On the first persian Gulf war
He argued that his vote in 1991 was not against using force to oust Iraq from Kuwait.
-On the lastest Iraq war
Kerry has contended his positions were consistent, saying the vote last year authorized President Bush (news - web sites) to threaten force rather than act unilaterally.
This is his problem: When he voted against the war, he meant to vote for it; when he voted for the it, he meant to vote against it. Is this his so called 'nuanced' policy?
No wonder Dean is blasting him like crazy.
Howard Dean (news - web sites), swapping criticism of foreign policy views with Democratic presidential rival John Kerry (news - web sites), on Monday questioned Kerry's judgment in voting against the Gulf War (news - web sites) in 1991 while supporting the resolution to invade Iraq "I think it should be the other way around," Dean said as he and other candidates entered the final day of campaigning before New Hampshire's leadoff primary. "Where was John Kerry when George Bush was giving out all this misinformation?"
Dean said his opposition to the Iraq war was a significant difference between himself and Kerry.
"A lot of folks in the campaign, including Senator Kerry, complain about my lack of foreign policy experience," Dean, a former Vermont governor, said at a rally Sunday night. "But he voted not to go to war when the oil wells were on fire and the troops were in Kuwait."
Here comes Bush:
That may be why Mr. Bush chose to swipe at Mr. Kerry in some off-the-record jokes in a speech on Saturday night at the Alfalfa Club dinner, an annual banquet for Washington's political upper class. The official position of Mr. Bush's advisers is that he is too busy running the country to pay attention to the campaign, but someone must have forgotten to tell the president.
"I think Kerry's position on the war in Iraq is politically brilliant," Mr. Bush told the Alfalfa Club guests at the Capitol Hilton, according to a guest who heard the remarks. "In New Hampshire yesterday, he stated he had voted for the war, adding that he was strongly opposed to it."
So what does Kerry mean when he votes against a war?