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So-called Flip-Flops

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I’ll make this easy for my gun-loving right-wing Repugnican friends out there. When you hear the Bush Campaign complaining about how Senator Kerry “flip-flopped” on the war, you’ll hear three things:

1) “Senator Kerry said that even knowing what he knows now (that there were no WMD’s) he’d still have voted for the war!”

Gun-lovers, what’s the difference between voting for a president to have the authority to wage war (Kerry’s position) versus voting for a president to wage war (Bush’s take on Kerry’s position). It’s the simple difference between lock and load and fire!. Kerry thought then and thinks now that it was OK to allow Bush to lock and load against Saddam. The Congress felt that the threat of a loaded gun pointed at Saddam would be the pressure necessary to get the inspectors back into Iraq to finish their job. Bush, however, took lock and load to mean ready, aim, fire!

2) “Senator Kerry voted for the war, then he voted against supporting the troops!”

Well, we’ve shown above that Kerry voted to lock and load, not to actually go to war. And when it came time to vote for the $87 Billion to support the troops, Congress came up with a bill and Kerry did vote for it. That leads to the third “flip-flop”:

3) “Senator Kerry said he voted for the $87 Billion, before he voted against it!”

See, the Congress came up with a bill that would provide $87 Billion for the war provided that the tax cuts for the top 1% would be repealed to pay for it. Kerry voted for that, but Bush threatened to veto it. (Can’t have the rich people actually pay for the war that benefits their corporations, can we?) The next bill to come up didn’t require any sacrifice from the rich, and that’s what Kerry voted against as a protest (he knew the bill would pass anyway.) So, we could actually frame the $87 Billion bill like so:

“President Bush wouldn’t allow Congress to support the troops until Congress promised that the rich wouldn’t pay for it!”


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