This is what Kerry said he would do if Bush went in Unilateraly. What did [View All]

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he really do? I ask Kerry supporters to tell me if he "forcefully and vociferously opposed" Bush's Invasion and Occupation of Iraq..
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Iraq war opponents walk line between critic, patriot
Joan Vennochi - Boston Globe
Thursday, November 21, 2002

(SNIP)(Article compares Max Cleland to Kerry in snip)

So did Kerry vote ''safe'' when he supported Bush onthe Iraq resolution? To that, Kerry says heatedly,''You don't vote safe or nonsafe when you're talking about sending people to war. . . . You had a national security issue. You may hate the timing, the cynicism
of it, the raw political exploitation of it. But you still have a fundamental national security issue.''

Kerry says that what he voted for was ''for the president to have the ability to maximize leverage with the United Nations . . . I think it worked. We have the U.N. involved. We got the president to go to
the U.N. Where we have the president is in the position we put him. He may not stay here; if he moves from there unilaterally, I made it very clear, absent any showing of imminent threat, which does not now
exist, I do not think we should proceed unilaterally. If he decides to do it, I will oppose him forcefully and vociferously.''

(SNIP) (Kerry voted AGAINST all AMENDMENTS to IWR!)

Cleland did not oppose the concept; like Kerry, he voted against amendments that would have replaced the Democrats' version with the path favored by Republicans. To highlight Cleland's votes, Chambliss
ran an ad campaign that flashed the faces of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.

(SNIP)
For now, Kerry is talking left, but voting centrist. After Sept. 11, it may be the only way to run for president. But is it the way to beat one? Joan Vennochi is a columnist for the Boston Globe.

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This article is no longer available from Atlanta Constitution, but in spending a long time on Google search, this was the article which quotes him saying what I heard him say. (Since it's no longer available I assume copyright laws don't apply? The article I'm posting with some snips was out on something called vietpage.com.) Will snip down if Mods think I should.


(Full article HERE:)
http://vietpage.com/archive_news/politics/2002/Nov/21/0202.html

(Atlanta Constitution article is no long available unless you are a subscriber)
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/epaper/editions/thursday/opinion_d3cd38f3d4c941140086.html