NOW IT'S MISHANDLED? NOT LIED TO? KERRY FLIP FLOPS AGAIN

I didn't get a chance to post about this article before, but it cracks me up. Kerry now says that he still would have gone to war even if he knew WMD didn't exist. Now's about how Bush "mishandled" the war and not about how he lied. This quote says it all:

"Why did he mislead America about how he would go to war?"

How does one mislead people about a war? How does a national leader lie to his people about the battle plans for entry? Does he publicly announce our plans of attack? Did President Bush lie about how if the U.S. didn't get U.N. support, we would still move forward? I think Kerry was trying to nuance (more on Kerry's "nuancing") his response too much and left no room for logic or a reasonable excuse to escape his idiotic statement that Bush should have "more honest" about "how" we would go to war. How?? And Bush critics say Bush is dumb?

Another view from my good friend from the other side. A Democrat who is still going to vote for Kerry, but is confused by his recent statements:

I always thought that Kerry voted to give the President authority for the war simply because the intelligence was too overwhelming at the time (including Powell's presentation at the UN) -- that WMDs existed in Iraq and posed an immediate threat to the US -- particularly in the forms of biological and chemical weapons with the means and precedent to deliver them like Saddam Hussein did against the Kurds in the north (not to mention also Hussein purported direct ties to Al-Qaida). But now he's saying that even knowing what we know now -- the fact that these threats and direct ties did not exist and that we did have some faulty intelligence, that he still would
have voted for the war. I'm somewhat confused by all this. What I thought at first was a defensible position on why he voted for the war has now dissipated and I'm not sure where he's going now on the issue...

In Hindsight, Kerry Says He'd Still Vote for War
Challenged by President, Democrat Spells Out Stance

Thw Washington Post
By Jim VandeHei
Tuesday, August 10, 2004; Page A01

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz., Aug. 9 -- Responding to President Bush's challenge to clarify his position, Sen. John F. Kerry said Monday that he still would have voted to authorize the war in Iraq even if he had known then that U.S. and allied forces would not find weapons of mass destruction. (full article)