John Kerry: 'All the evils of Saddam Hussein alone were not a cause to go to war'

Clearly, Sen. John Kerry has forgotten the meaning of "Never again."

He also has forgotten about the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, U.N. Resolution 688 requiring Saddam Hussein to stop the repression of his own people, U.N. Resolutions 686 and 687 conditioning a cease-fire in part on Saddam’s return of nearly 600 Kuwaiti POWs, and countless other U.N. orders Saddam refused to comply with.

Clearly, Kerry was willing to allow Saddam to torture and murder Iraqis forever.

Time magazine of March 15, 2004: Obviously it’s good that Saddam is out of power. Was bringing him down worth the cost?

Kerry: "If there are no weapons of mass destruction – and we may yet find some – then this is a war that was fought on false pretenses, because that was the justification to the American people, to the Congress, to the world, and that was clearly the frame of my vote of consent. I said it as clearly as you can in my speech. I suggested that all the evils of Saddam Hussein alone were not a cause to go to war."

Time: So if we don’t find WMD, the war wasn’t worth the costs? That’s a yes?

Kerry: "No, I think you can still – wait, no. You can’t – that’s not a fair question, and I’ll tell you why. You can wind up successful in transforming Iraq and changing the dynamics, and that may make it worth it, but that doesn’t mean [tranforming Iraq] was the cause [that provided the] legitimacy to go. You have to have that distinction."

So, according to Kerry, it’s good we ousted Saddam, but we just shouldn’t have done it. And those U.N. resolutions cited by President Bush at the United Nations on Sept. 12, 2002, were just a joke to Kerry. In Kerry’s world, the U.N. is there to make rules but then ignore the rule-breakers.

Under Kerry’s logic, nations that enforce international law are the outlaws, and Saddam and his fascism should have been left alone.

That is no leader for the Free World. That is one very bad leader.

Frank Warner

SEE ALSO: On Sept. 20, 2004, Kerry returns to this position on Iraq.

SEE ALSO: Why Kerry is wrong on ‘bilateral talks’ with North Korea.

Comments

[sam]

This is the main reson I did and still do support the invasion of iraq, saddam's evils CLEARLY DO are cause to go to war. I see Kerry as a much more powerfull man than many Democratic presidential nominees from the past (what i mean is: he not a major tree hugger like Gore), and I respec that. however it takes just and ounce of compassion to see that these people were in very bad way under the rule of saddam. He tortured olympic athletes who failed to su, and they needed outside help. He tortured olympic athletes who failed to do well the sick bastard!