"Tom Fleischman" wrote in message
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Just since he's been a pres. candidate (well that's
actually since he was about 16, but that's another matter) he has been
the
pro-war candidate, the anti-war candidate, the anti-anti-war candidate,
and
now the pro-anti-war candidate. The only way to explain John Kerry's
policy
positions are (1) chaos theory and (2) he will say anything whatsoever
to
get elected. What he'll actually do in office, who the hell knows?

That's nonsense. Have you done any research at all into what Kerry's
positions are on these things? Have you read his web site? His position
on Iraq is and has always been crystal clear.

Tom,

I'm a Bostonian and have been involved in politics up here for quite some
time so yeah, I know John Kerry.

In the 80s he was a consistent Massachusetts Democrat--favored the Nuclear
Freeze, opposed deploying Pershing missiles, balh blah. This carried through
to 1991 when he voted against the Gulf War, thus costing him the very good
shot he had at the VP slot on the 1992 ticket.

He learned, and throughout the 90s never missed an opportunity to say Saddam
was not living up to the deals he made with the UN, that the French and
Russians were compromised because they wanted to do business with him, and
so on. He out-hawked many of the hawks and even criticized the Clinton
administration on occasions for not pushing hard enough.

Even here in Mass., I know relatively few people who can say, or even much
care, what John Kerry's position on Iraq is. Their position is that they'd
rather have a block of wood in the Oval Office than W, and that's fine.

To the degree that I've discerned a consistency in John Kerry's actions over
the years, it's a tendency to talk tough on the evening news shows, and then
agree with whatever the appropriate UN committee decides to do the next day.
He's been a profoundly liberal internationalist as long as he's been in the
Senate. And that's what he'd be as President. Now he's starting to say so,
which I suspect will fire the base up nicely, but will cost him the general
election.

Best,
-cwk.