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Kerry flips over his roots

Donald Lambro:

John Kerry has finally said what he has long believed but would not say until now: No matter how much of a threat Saddam Hussein posed in the Middle East, it was not reason enough to topple his terrorist regime.
In yet another address to further explain and change his positions on Iraq, the Massachusetts liberal continues his tortuous, publicly confusing odyssey over the war — from pre-primary supporter and defender of the war to critic of the war to partial critic/partial supporter, and now, it seems, to all-out, antiwar protester. Mr. Kerry has come full circle.
Mr. Kerry's newest explanation of his position on the war was stated in four brief, unambiguous sentences in his speech on Monday: "Saddam was a brutal dictator who deserves his own special place in hell," he said. "But that was not — that was not — in itself a reason to go to war. The satisfaction that we take in his downfall does not hide this fact: We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure."
This from a man who not too many weeks ago said knowing what he knows now about the failure to find weapons of mass destruction, he still would have voted for the war resolution against the Iraqi dictator who harbored terrorists and financed terrorist acts, particularly in Israel.

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The new antiwar strategy is driven by Kerry campaign polls showing the senator not only running behind Mr. Bush but the erosion coming from the Democratic Party base. That of course not only threatens to undermine his presidential prospects but vulnerable House and Senate Democratic candidates, too, particularly in the South and West.
No Democratic Senate candidate is willing to defend John Kerry's vote against military funding for the troops in Iraq. One party official told me, "Kerry is sounding more and more like Howard Dean, and that's not good for our party."

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But Americans know we are in a war against terrorism that will not be won by setting dates for troop pullouts; that the overthrow of the Taliban and Saddam regimes dealt a major blow to the terrorists; that offensive pre-emption is better than waiting for the next attack; and that this was in fact the right war in the right place at the right time.