Reply #27: Do you really not believe that people can change? [View All]

[malachibk]

I don't love Kerry (was for Kucinich, myself) but he's getting all this flak for political "flip flopping" (from both repubs and progressives alike). Kerry's "a little better than bush" or "see through".

Do people not grow or change at all? Maybe Kerry was "for the war" when he (and almost everyone else in the country save those here at DU) thought that Iraq was a real, pressing threat and now he's "against the war" as it's played out under the fuckup in the WH.

Why is it then inconsistent for him to say something like "Well, we all thought a war-stance was a viable position when we thought were were in danger, but now that we know we weren't, and in light of the way bush is bungling things and costing American lives, I can now see this is the wrong war to be fighting. That said, now that we have destroyed an entire country, we have a duty to stay as long as it takes to make it viable, in a way the Iraqis want, before we cut out."

Is Kerry that nefarious that he's just making all that up? Kerry is VERY different from bush and it boggles my mind when people say he's not.