{"id":596,"date":"2004-08-17T13:09:46","date_gmt":"2004-08-17T17:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=596"},"modified":"2004-08-17T13:09:46","modified_gmt":"2004-08-17T17:09:46","slug":"kerry-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=596","title":{"rendered":"Kerry Knew"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the subject of George Bush calling Kerry out on his support for the Iraq Resolution. Josh Marshall<\/a> and others are taking the tact that Kerry didn’t mean to sign on to a pre-emptive strike. Instead, despite all<\/a> of the evidence to the contrary, they are suggesting you should promote the tragic notion that John Kerry considered George W. Bush (and his administration) to be trustworthy and cautious individual(s) deserving of the power to wage war without Congressional approval.<\/p>\n

If a nobody like me knew that George & Co. was manipulating the press and the situation, marking the wimps and\/or co-conspirators in Congress as targets of the public mania their lies and distortions created, certainly John Kerry was well aware that passage of the resolution was a death sentence for innocent Iraqi civilians.<\/p>\n

If he was truly in the dark on this point he’s an idiot who, if courageous, would have fought the rising tide as this travesty escalated. He was provided with numerous opportunities to challenge this administration.<\/p>\n

His silence, then and now, speaks volumes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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