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Ridiculous.
Nowhere did John Kerry say he would NOT have gone to war. He is fond of saying he would have "done things differently". Show mw where John Kerry said he would not have gone to war.
Instead of retyping in my own words, I'm just going to post someone else's:
"As James Madison put it, "In no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found, than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department." But Kerry, and a majority of senators and House members, ignored that wisdom and voted for a use-of-force resolution that Sen. Robert Byrd (D.-W.Va.) rightly denounced as a "blank check" to the president. The language of that resolution was clear: "The President is authorized to use the Armed Forces of the United States as he determines to be necessary and appropriate in order to (1) defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq; and (2) enforce all relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq." Thus, Congress left it up to the president ("he determines") to decide whether and when to initiate the war.
Kerry has since complained about how the president exercised that authority. Bush, he says, violated Congress' trust by not building a large enough coalition and getting the U.N. on board, "...and that's why I was upset about it."
But if Kerry was upset, he has only himself to blame. Complaining about the president using the authority you've granted him is rather like locking the barn door after you've deliberately let the cows out."
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