Thursday, October 07, 2004

Can I tell you something? I am not a regular listener to Sean Hannity's show - because I am usually either a: working, b: listening to Michael Medved or c: thinking about a Hulk Hogan comeback. But today, I am stuck at State College, PA, watching about a thousand Kerry and Bush ads an hour on TV and Hannity is about the only thing on that's sane.

So he sends one of his interns out to the street to see if people know who is running and he gets some woman who doesn't know the vice-president's name, but is voting for Kerry even though she knows he keeps changing his position on the issues every week.

Here's what I think: Absolute Truth, Right and Wrong, all of that is gone. Relative truth is here to stay. The fact that Kerry and Edwards nearly everyone in the Congress agreed that the US Intelligence service and other intelligence were right when they said that Saddam and Iraq were brewing up some nasty stuff. Here's his statement from the resolution authorizing force. (search on the page for Kerry - it looooong)

Here's the key phrase though:
" It would be naive to the point of grave danger not to believe that, left to his own devices, Saddam Hussein will provoke, misjudge, or stumble into a future, more dangerous confrontation with the civilized world. He has as much as promised it. He has already created a stunning track record of miscalculation. He miscalculated an 8-year war with Iran. He miscalculated the invasion of Kuwait. He miscalculated America's responses to it. He miscalculated the result of setting oil rigs on fire. He miscalculated the impact of sending Scuds into Israel. He miscalculated his own military might. He miscalculated the Arab world's response to his plight. He miscalculated in attempting an assassination of a former President of the United States. And he is miscalculating now America's judgments about his miscalculations. All those miscalculations are compounded by the rest of history. A brutal, oppressive dictator, guilty of personally murdering and condoning murder and torture, grotesque violence against women, execution of political opponents, a war criminal who used chemical weapons against another nation and, of course, as we know, against his own people, the Kurds. He has diverted funds from the Oil-for-Food program, intended by the international community to go to his own people. He has supported and harbored terrorist groups, particularly radical Palestinian groups such as Abu Nidal, and he has given money to families of suicide murderers in Israel. I mention these not because they are a cause to go to war in and of themselves, as the President previously suggested, but because they tell a lot about the threat of the weapons of mass destruction and the nature of this man. We should not go to war because these things are in his past, but we should be prepared to go to war because of what they tell us about the future."

Kerry believed Saddam was a threat then. (2 years ago Oct 9, 2002). He believed Saddam had weapons of Mass Destruction and was willing to use them and was willing that the president should be authorized to take care of it.

But now he says that didn't count.

Kerry's a jobber, donchathink?

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