Kerry Stands by 'yes' vote on Iraq War

[palacebrother]

From CNN.com:

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[elijahismyfrodo]

i'm not good at wording things, so i probably won't make sense with my rediculous train of thought, but here it goes. It doesn't surprise me that he is standing by the "yes" vote for the war, because the majority of America seems to approve of warfare as means of protection(...especially when our country's leader makes everyone think that it is our only way to be safe..psh). I, personally, think that war can never truly fix any problems...but in politics, that never seems to be an option. alskgdj anyway, at least Kerry would have had a plan established before going into Iraq. Jumping into war was so impulsive on Bush's part(and yet he couldn't be any less quick about helping out 9/11 victims or funding the homeland security measures that he established after the two towers attacks), and just knowing some of Kerry's campaign strategies, he's already got plans established to fix what was ruined when America went to war. He's got plans to rebuild the destroyed alliances, so that we can have help and get people out of Iraq. There is no

[palacebrother]

the point is that all that Kerry voted for was for the President to have the authority to go to war, and people are twisting that into that he was pro-war.

[elijahismyfrodo]

well that's not very nice.

yeah, misunderstanding on my part. it's logical for the president to have the authority to go to war. That shouldn't vary from president to president, so I don't see why anyone wouldn't vote 'yes' for that.

[palacebrother]

exactly. because we should be able to trust the president to go to war as a last resort. if kerry had not trusted bush and voted 'no', he probably would have been accused of disrupting our defense system (which would have been irrelevant because iraq was not a threat)