Originally posted by Davo: I like this game! Now guess who said the statements below. (Highlight between the brackets for answers).
"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real..." [Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003]
OK, so you are using this quote to illustrate your point that John Kerry was in favor of engaging in warfare against Iraq in 2003? This is from the same speech that your quote was taken from. Doncha think that this helps to put the quote in contest a little?
"In U.N. Security Council Resolution 1441, the United Nations has now affirmed that Saddam Hussein must disarm or face the most serious consequences. Let me make it clear that the burden is resoundingly on Saddam Hussein to live up to the ceasefire agreement he signed and make clear to the world how he disposed of weapons he previously admitted to possessing. But the burden is also clearly on the Bush Administration to do the hard work of building a broad coalition at the U.N. and the necessary work of educating America about the rationale for war.
As I have said frequently and repeat here today, the United States should never go to war because it wants to, the United States should go to war because we have to. And we don't have to until we have exhausted the remedies available, built legitimacy and earned the consent of the American people, absent, of course, an imminent threat requiring urgent action."
Is this really evidence that Kerry or any other Democrat has reversed his or her position abut the necessity for full scale war in Iraq?
