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Kerry's Contradictions [WSJ]
John Kerry's presidential campaign looks like a dead letter; a new Zogby poll has the haughty, French-looking Massachusetts Democrat, who by the way served in Vietnam, trailing Howard Dean in New Hampshire by 30 points, 42% to 12%, and the American Research Group puts Dean ahead by 32 points, 45% to 13%.
Nonetheless, it's worth looking at the foreign-policy speech he delivered yesterday at the Council on Foreign Relations, a thoroughly disingenuous exercise in trying to have it both ways.
Kerry promises, for example, that "as president, I will not cede our security to any nation or to any institution, and adversaries will have no doubt of my resolve to use force if necessary."
But he also vows to go hat in hand to seek forgiveness from those countries that fought tooth and nail to keep Saddam Hussein in power: "In the first hundred days in office, I will go to the United Nations--I will go in the first weeks--and I will travel to our traditional allies to affirm that the United States of America has rejoined the community of nations." Kerry seems to think that America, rather than Saddam Hussein's Iraq, is some sort of rogue nation.
Kerry says of Iraq: "I fear that in the run-up to the 2004 election, the administration is considering what is tantamount to a cut-and-run strategy." This takes a lot of chutzpah, given that Kerry himself voted to defund the troops, and that he declared, in this very same speech, "I have said before--and I repeat today--that the Bush administration should swallow its pride and reverse course."
Why even bother taking note of Kerry's futile utterances? Well, consider the reason he seems certain to lose the nomination: because he's too hawkish for the Democratic electorate.
Where do the Dem's find these AH's? Captain Poopdeck
4:07:25 PM 
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Thanks Michael
It seems that not all 
