Posted on 08/24/2004 11:59:20 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
A top national security adviser to John F. Kerry said yesterday that he made a mistake when he said the Democratic nominee probably would have launched a military invasion to oust Saddam Hussein if he had been president during the past four years.
On Aug. 7, Jamie Rubin told The Washington Post that "in all probability" a Kerry administration would have waged war against Iraq by now if the Massachusetts Democrat were president.
The Bush campaign, eager to portray Kerry as holding the same position as the president after the failure to find weapons of mass destruction, seized on Rubin's comments as evidence that the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates share similar views on the war, in retrospect. On NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman said the two candidates agreed about "sending our troops to war."
"To the extent that my own comments have contributed to misunderstanding on this issue. . . . I never should have said the phrase 'in all probability' because that's not Kerry's position and he's never said it," Rubin said in a statement. "That was my mistake."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
"Maybe I would...and maybe I wouldn't. Did you know that I'm a war hero? Nevermind."
For those scoring at home Jamie Rubin = Mr. Christianne Amanpour = highly overrated.
I would say the peaceniks are having a hissy fit over Kerry running to the right on defense.
You only get in trouble in Washington D.C. when you tell the truth.
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That's some circular firing squad they've got going on inside Kerry-Edwards HQ.
Most
Incompetent
Campaign
EVER.
Jamie Rubin = Mr. Christiane Amanpour
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