by James Glaser
November 18, 2005

I keep getting e-mails from Senator John Kerry, who wants to make another run for the Presidency. Now Senator Kerry wants me to believe that he is against Bush's war in Iraq, but I can't buy it.

Not only did John Kerry vote to give George Bush the right to send troops off to die, but in the last campaign he said, "Well Mr. President, nobody's talking about leaving, nobody's talking about wilting and wavering. We're talking about winning and getting the job done right."

John Kerry did everything he could to act and sound tough for the voters and in doing so, he gave George Bush all the backing he needed to push on with his war. Since that campaign, another 1,098 American troops have been killed and thousands and thousands have been wounded. Now John Kerry is out there saying this war in Iraq is wrong.... too late John.

During one of the debates with George Bush, John Kerry said, "Now that we are there, we have to succeed. We can't leave a failed Iraq." Just recently in a speech at Georgetown University, Senator Kerry said, "The country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth."

I don't buy Kerry's "not given the truth" bit. Either you believe that in today's shrinking world war works and you are pro-war, or you believe wars don't work and are anti-war. John Kerry wants it both ways. He wants us to believe that it is OK for America to attack any third world nation that we think might somehow/someway attack us some time. Now that things have turned out to not go our way in Iraq, John Kerry uses the excuse, "we were not given the truth," so he can change his mind.

Millions of people the world over knew that the "books had been cooked" to get the Senate to vote for this war. John Kerry couldn't see that. Americans who were anti-war before Bush started his campaign for the war did not change their minds, but John Kerry looked at the polls, and voted for war.

In case you think John Kerry had some sort of miraculous conversion to the Anti-war movement, remember that just last year Kerry was telling the nation that we must add 40,000 more combat troops, in two new Combat Divisions. On top of that, Senator Kerry said we must double the number of Green Berets we have, "so we can attack terrorism in more countries."

George Bush tried hard to attach the Flip/Flop label to John Kerry's name, and it looks like the shoe fits. So if you are against war and feel we need a President who will really make combat the last resort, delete those Kerry e-mails. What we are looking for is a presidential candidate whose conviction about the use of the military is both consistent and unwavering. That leaves John Kerry out.