Reply #101: Bush decided to attack Iraq, not Kerry [View All]

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Let's not forget that Bush made the decision to attack Iraq. Kerry and Edwards voted to give the president the authority to enforce inspections for an arsenal of WMD's.

We now know that was pretty much a cooked report put together in a period of weeks to support a WH policy of pre-emption.

Kerry figured he's in a Catch 22. If indeed the CIA is right and they have WMD's, he's F***ed. If they don't have WMD's then he can portray he voted to give the Prez authoirty AFTER building a multi-lateral coalition AND going to the UN. The problem is he made the mistake of trusting Bush to act in good faith.

I think looking in retrospect, Kerry did what he did based on the Intelligence briefing. He was duped by Tenet.

Truth is men like Byrd and Leahy were more rightly skeptical. It is not Kerry's finest hour, and makes things difficult for him, but you have to remember Bush jumped the gun. The Iraqi resolution WAS NOT FOR IMMEDIATE WAR against Irq, but to make the inspections work. Blix was in Iraq. Bush felt he wasn't finding anything so he couldn't have been doing his job. In fact Blix WAS!