Vice President Dick Cheney is unimpressed with claims that John Kerry and other Democrats were duped into voting for war with Iraq.
These are not times for leaders who shift with the political winds, saying one thing one day and another, the next. That brings to mind our opponents in this campaign. Sometimes their position on a big issue depends on when you ask them.Posted by Alan at July 12, 2004 05:31 PMWhen Congress voted to authorize force against Saddam Hussein, Senator Kerry and Senator Edwards both voted yes. Now it seems they've both developed a convenient case of campaign amnesia. Many times prior to the war in Iraq, Senator Kerry described Saddam Hussein as a threat to the United States, and said that this was, "always his position on Iraq." And Senator Edwards, in an interview on television, called Iraq, "the most serious and imminent threat to our country."
For those reasons, John Kerry and John Edwards voted to authorize force. There was widespread agreement on the nature of the threat from Iraq's former dictator. Our administration, the Congress, members of the U.N. Security Council, members of the previous administration -- all reviewed the intelligence and all concluded Saddam Hussein was a threat.
Senator Kerry and Senator Edwards are criticizing the President for looking at the same information they did and coming to the same conclusion they did. The President made the right decision, and John Kerry is simply trying to rewrite history for his own political purposes.