Kerry seems to have lost a few votes...
...over at the Democratic Underground, after stating that he would have voted to authorize the Iraq war even had he known Iraq possessed no WMDs. Here's a sampling:
I'm with you -- this may be the proverbial straw. I have been precinct walking for this man and I just raised several thousand dollars to help my club open an office to get out the vote. But to be honest, I don't know if I can take any more. He has the perfect out -- he could have easily taken the reasonable position taken by other senators that had they known what they know now they would not have voted for the war -- but NO -- he has to mimic the Chimp and say he would still vote for the war. He might be better than Bush, but he seems to be narrowing the gap every day. He clearly has decided that he doesn't need my vote or my work.
is dis a joke?
I thought we was against the stupid war.
of course I'm not going to vote for him. I will not vote for a pro-war candidate, especially a pro-preemptive-illegal-imperialist-PNAC-war candidate!
I will not vote for John Kerry either.
Iraq is the central theater in the PNAC war on democracy. Knowing that, Kerry would still vote for it. Not much more to say after that.
How can anyone say, knowing their were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, we should have gone to war to get rid of them anyway? I can understand this shit coming from Bush. He's an idiot. I don't like it coming from Kerry. It's confusing bullshit, playing to a bunch of right wing war mongers. for what? Because Saddam was a bad man?
It's bullshit and I'm not going to pretend it isn't.
As much as I hate Bush, this response by Kerry may cause be to simply not vote.... Super big mistake by Kerry.
And then there's this guy. He makes a good point, I think:
Can we learn anything from this? You anti-war Democratic activists should have woken up at latest when Kerry made his anti-democratic anti-Venezuela remarks, find out what is going on, and organized to kick out Kerry's PNAC foreign policy team OR ELSE and force Kerry to be YOUR President instead of PNAC president.But blinded by one-dimension ABB mentality you rallied behind Kerry in the name of unity, the classical left sell-out pretext, and now it is too late, once again. Better luck next time, keep up the good fight!