Response to a comment about Bush & Iraq

Here's the comment:

Yeah, I always get a kick out of the people who say they're voting for Bush because of his strong moral character...

What's worse, changing your mind about an issue, or knowingly lying about an issue to the public to try to strengthen your position?

Here's the part I want to focus on:

knowingly lying about an issue to the public

That is simply not true, to be very kind about it.

The fact of the matter is (to use a Cheneyism) that Kerry admitted that he looked at the same intelligence (sometimes I wonder if that's a misnomer) and came to the same conlusions. It is a popular myth perpetuated by certain partisans that Bush "lied" about Iraq. They voted for the Iraq war too! Kerry said all this and more (when it was popular to be for the Iraq war):

"Where's the backbone of Russia, where's the backbone of France, where are they in expressing their condemnation of such clearly illegal activity...?"

"We urge you...to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."

Letter to the President from Sens. Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and others

"If Saddam Hussein is unwilling to bend to the international community's already existing order, then he will have invited enforcement, even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act."

Op-Ed, "We Still Have A Choice On Iraq," The New York Times

"The threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real, but as I said, it is not new. It has been with us since the end of that war, and particularly in the last 4 years we know after Operation Desert Fox failed to force him to reaccept them, that he has continued to build those weapons. He has had a free hand for 4 years to reconstitute these weapons, allowing the world, during the interval, to lose the focus we had on weapons of mass destruction and the issue of proliferation."

If Bush was lying about Iraq, then so was Kerry.

After saying all that, he correctly voted for the Iraq war. The he voted for the $87 billion before he voted against it. Man, even if you don't agree with the war, don't you think that troops might need some body armor and ammo? Dude, trying to figure out Kerry's positions gives me a headache. Anyone got an Advil?