Now He's for It Again (Taranto/WSJ re:Kerry & the Dems)

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The Senate gave final passage yesterday to an $82 billion emergency war-spending bill, sending President Bush a measure that will push the cost of the Iraq invasion well past $200 billion," reports the Washington Post. The vote was unanimous: 100-0 .

Among the senators supporting the measure were John Kerry* and eight others who in October 2003 voted against a similar appropriation of $87 billion:
  • Barbara Boxer (D - Calif.)
  • Robert Byrd (D - W.Va.)
  • Tom Harkin (D - Iowa)
  • Jim Jeffords (I - Vt.)
  • Ted Kennedy (D - Mass.)
  • Frank Lautenberg (D - N.J.)
  • Pat Leahy (D - Vt.)
  • Paul Sarbanes (D - Md.)
It seems pretty clear that Kerry in particular was engaging in a little political posturing back in 2003, putting his own interest in appealing to his party’s far left ahead of his country’s interest in winning the wars (in Afghanistan as well as Iraq). Thank goodness his political opportunism was so transparent. Had it not been, it’s just possible he would be president today.

The Post article, meanwhile, contains this dig at President Bush: “During last year’s presidential campaign, the Bush team excoriated Democratic challenger John F. Kerry for asserting that the war would cost $200 billion.” But as FactCheck.org reports, Kerry had actually asserted, falsely, that the war had already cost “$200 billion and counting.”
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Just like a liberal…the demilibs have done it again…misquoting and such…shameful…
 
The insurgents got a boost from Democrats supporting them last year.
 
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