NEW YORK - Staking out new ground on Iraq, Sen. John Kerry suggested Monday that he would not have overthrown Saddam Hussein had he known what he knows now, and accused President Bush of "stubborn incompetence," dishonesty and colossal failures of judgment. Bush said Kerry was flip-flopping.
Of course, far be it for me to expect my President to follow Senate hearings any more than I would expect him to read his own PDB, or for that matter, listen to the outgoing administrations dire warnings. Odd how the Bush administration is critical of John Kerry "flip-flopping" on Iraq, when he did what they asked in the first place and backed Bush. Which is worse: changing your mind about supporting the President when you learn that he lied to you and the rest of the American people about WMDs, or using the most powerful office in the world to settle a grudge against your dad and make your oil buddies filthty rich in the process?
There is an excellent book called "Had Enough?" by James Carville (who came up with "it's the economy stupid" which takes a serious (and sometimes humurous) look at what a true "flip-flopper" Bush is, but more importantly, Carville offers some really dynamic and realistic ideas on how to fix the mess that Bush has gotten us into, not just Iraq, but the economy, health care, education, and a few other issues as well. It is written so that anyone with a third grade education can understand it.....so we need not worry about anyone in the Bush white house actually reading it and stealing any of the great ideas he puts forth.