Amazing. This is how Kerry's speech this morning is now being spun by AP hack Ron Fournier:
Kerry Says He Wouldn't Have Ousted Saddam
Staking out new ground on Iraq (news - web sites), Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) said Monday he would not have overthrown Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) had he been in the White House, and he accused President Bush (news - web sites) of "stubborn incompetence," dishonesty and colossal failures of judgment. Bush said Kerry was flip-flopping. [...]
"Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator who deserves his own special place in hell," he added. "But that was not, in itself, a reason to go to war. The satisfaction we take in his downfall does not hide this fact: We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure."
Bush responded in kind, interpreting the comment to mean that Kerry believes U.S. security would be better with Saddam still in power. "He's saying he prefers the stability of a dictatorship to the hope and security of democracy," the Republican incumbent said.
The structure of the whole story is familiar: Fournier offers a Kerry quote -- larded with claims that undercut Kerry's statements -- then immediately offers a rebuttal from Bush. Then another Kerry quote, rebutted by Bush, and so on.
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