August 10, 2004

WHAT WMD?:

Kerry says he'd still vote to authorize Iraq war (Patrick Healy, August 10, 2004, Boston Globe)

John F. Kerry for the first time yesterday said he still would have voted to give President Bush the authority to go to war in Iraq, even if he had known in October 2002 that US intelligence was flawed, that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction, and that there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

In other words, he agrees with the precise and lawyerly case that the President made to the UN, which had nothing to do with WMD or al Qaeda and everything to do with Saddam not following through on the resolutions that suspended the '91 war.

Posted by Orrin Judd at August 10, 2004 9:05 AM
Comments

The internal polling on Kerry's ability to defend the United States must be looking a little frayed for him to come out and say this. A response from Howard Dean and others in his wing of the party would be nice to hear at this point, though I'm not counting on anyone actually doing so in the big media.

Posted by: John at August 10, 2004 9:19 AM

He will refine that position tommorrow.

Posted by: Robert Schwartz at August 10, 2004 11:26 AM

He was in AZ.

Posted by: John Resnick at August 10, 2004 11:53 AM

Don Gonyea went out of his way this morning to try to blunt the President's "negativity" on this issue...

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