Sounds like he's flip-flopping again, don't you think?
-sm
--- Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 12:08:13 -0400, Robert Munn
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I would like to hear his whole answer again.
>
> Here it is - pay close attention to the second
> paragraph:
>
> LEHRER: New question. Two minutes, Senator Kerry.
> What is your
> position on the whole concept of preemptive war?
>
> KERRY: The president always has the right, and
> always has had the
> right, for preemptive strike. That was a great
> doctrine throughout the
> Cold War. And it was always one of the things we
> argued about with
> respect to arms control.
>
> No president, though all of American history, has
> ever ceded, and nor
> would I, the right to preempt in any way necessary
> to protect the
> United States of America.
>
> But if and when you do it, Jim, you have to do it in
> a way that passes
> the test, that passes the global test where your
> countrymen, your
> people understand fully why you're doing what you're
> doing and you can
> prove to the world that you did it for legitimate
> reasons.
>
> Here we have our own secretary of state who has had
> to apologize to
> the world for the presentation he made to the United
> Nations.
>
>
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