[Vision2020] ANOTHER National Democrat on Iraq

[Tim Lohrmann]

Visionaries,
   The Democrats' Iraq stances are looking
increasingly schizophrenic, no?
   TL

> 
> INSIDE THE BELTWAY
> By John McCaslin
> ----------------------------------------------------
>      KERRY'S WAR
> 
>      Suffice it to say that Democratic presidential
> hopeful John Kerry has made "Iraqgate" the theme of
> his campaign.
> 
>      On virtually every stump he's stood on this
> week, the Massachusetts Democrat has complained that
> President Bush sidestepped the congressionally
> approved path to war by bypassing the United
> Nations, by not building an international coalition,
> and simply by not doing what it was that he had
> promised to do (actually, one could argue that the
> senator is wrong on all three counts).
> 
>      Forget that Mr. Kerry voted in favor of the
> Iraq war resolution. He did so, he now says, with
> the understanding that Mr. Bush would exhaust every
> remedy first. What was the big hurry, in other
> words.
> 
>      But let's revisit Nov. 17, 1997, when nobody
> else in Washington except the Inside the Beltway
> column led with an item headlined, "Finish the
> mission."
> 
>      "Debate on whether to take out Saddam Hussein,
> the Iraqi strongman, is over as far as one
> Democratic senator is concerned," or so we had
> written.
> 
>      "Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts is calling
> for a 'strong' military attack in response to the
> Iraqi leader's 'horrific objective of amassing a
> stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.' "
> 
>      Weapons of mass destruction? That's what Mr.
> Kerry called them.
> 
>      "As the senator points out, military might is
> the only language Saddam knows — and fears. 'Saddam
> Hussein should pay a grave price, in a currency that
> he understands and values, for his unacceptable
> behavior,' says Mr. Kerry. 'This should not be a
> strike consisting only of a handful of cruise
> missiles hitting isolated targets primarily of
> presumed symbolic value. But how long this military
> action might continue and how it may escalate ...
> and how extensive it would reach are for the [White
> House National] Security Council and our allies to
> know and for Saddam Hussein to find out!' "
> 
>      Just as you wished, Senator.
> 


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