Reply #112: i called Kerry's office before the IWR vote ... [View All]

[welshTerrier2]

i told his staff person that there was no question bush would use the IWR to invade Iraq ... i told him that if Saddam were driven from power, a huge power vacuum would destabilize not just Iraq but the entire Middle East ... i told him about PNAC's plan to impose American values on the entire region ... i told him i believed people like Scott Ritter who was extremely skeptical about WMD in Iraq ... i told him i thought bush was lying about the evidence he had ... i told him that even if Saddam had WMD, he had never attacked the US nor threatened an attack on the US ... i told him i didn't believe Saddam had the capacity to attack the US because of the sanctions and the no-fly zone ... and i told him war against Iraq did not meet the "imminent threat" test ...

most of all, i told him that we should not go to war with a madman like bush in the WH ...

i asked him how Kerry planned to vote and he said Kerry hadn't made a decision yet ... i asked him how Kerry's calls were running and he said they were 20 - 1 in opposition to the IWR ... 20 -1 !!

i suppose our representatives sometimes have to make up their own minds ... but something is very wrong when those taking the time to contact their Senator are so clearly opposed to something he ended up voting for ...

this is not a question of what i "knew"; it was a question of judgment ... Kerry made made the wrong call ... man did he make the wrong call ... don't waste our time defending it; his vote along with all the others who gave bush the resolution he wanted was a catastrophic error in judgment ...