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Hippo_Tron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 02:50 AM
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97. No I don't have a short memory
And yes we lost across the board, partly because John Kerry's Iraq position was so complicated due to the fact that he voted for the IWR. Same goes for many congressional Democrats. The Republican attack theme was that Democrats were too indecisive to be trusted on national security. And when your explanation is, "If I knew then what I know now, I would have..." that plays right into their indecisive meme.

Kerry should've voted against the IWR on the grounds that after listening to the experts, he had determined that we would simply be walking into a quagmire. That speech would've made incredibly effective TV ad and John Kerry "right from the start" would've made an incredibly effective campaign slogan.

But instead Kerry had to spend much of the campaign explaining why he changed his position.
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