Give him 5 minutes. He'll change his mind :)
Posted on 02/15/2005 2:16:27 PM PST by redlenses
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Sen. John Kerry, whose baffling explanation of votes on Iraq war funding hurt his 2004 White House bid, said on Tuesday he would back President Bush's new $81.9 billion request for Iraq and Afghanistan.
"I think we're in a very different situation," Kerry told reporters. "I'm going to vote for this ... I think this money is important to our being successful and to the completion of the process."
The Massachusetts senator, who failed in his bid to unseat Bush last November in an election focused on national security, defended his decision to not back the president's previous request to fund military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"Mine was the right vote at the time and I wouldn't change it if we went back to that point in time because it was the right vote," Kerry said. "We didn't have a plan and they didn't spend the money correctly."
In October 2003, a year after voting to support the use of force in Iraq, Kerry voted against an $87 billion supplemental funding bill for U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. He did support an unsuccessful alternative bill that funded the $87 billion by cutting some of Bush's tax cuts.
In March last year as the presidential campaign heated up, Kerry provided his Republican opponents with political ammunition when he sought to explain the move by saying: "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it."
"Should we have done a better job, could I have done a better job personally in fighting back on defining that?" Kerry asked. "The answer is yeah."
Kerry said the United States would have made better progress on Iraq, where an insurgency continues to rage almost two years after the March 2003 invasion, if he had been elected. He asserted the Bush administration was only now "trying some of the things" he proposed such as focusing on training Iraqi forces and getting other countries involved.
"I think my security proposals for the country were smack on, dead on," Kerry said.
Bush's request is expected to be approved by lawmakers despite concerns in the U.S. Congress about record federal budget deficits.
Give him 5 minutes. He'll change his mind :)
my head is spinning
Who is this Kerry fellow and why does he look so French?
Kerry's statement--- "I support the President's funding request, that is before a while back when I do not support the effort to remove funding and support our troops, but I do not support the effort to raise funding to not support our troops, while before that, I do support funding that was not supported by my previous vote to stop and start funding last week, which has no bearing on my not funding the support that was funded by the Senate which did change my support on the issue of taking funds away from the military to give to the non-supported funds which I voted for yesterday, but now changed back to the original funding which I voted for along with the effort to change funding and re-support the vote to change the Senate vote which I do support...now I can clarify that by saying I do not support the funding which I earlier voted against, er for, then changed back on Wednesday, but....."
Well, he can still be for it, before he votes against it.
LOL
This President stole my plan...a plan I formulated while in Vietnam.
when Kerry and Gore finally meld into one, will that be the first example of a fusion reaction emitting BS on implosion instead of gamma rays......
Doesn't Bush realize how many lobsters that kind of money could save?
Geez.
Wouldn't it be simpler and easier on everyone if instead of being "for", then "against", then again "for", he would just average his position(s) and be steadily FOR half the amount?
That's assuming he can do simple math :)
That's this week. Alot can change in 7 days.
Well, Terayzah does anyway. Jean Francois couldn't afford'em :)
He's going to vote for it, before he votes against it.
or simpler even still: Kerry is Forgainst everything!
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Har-har-har!!
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