Kerry Says He Wouldn't Have Ousted Saddam

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The reenlistment rate is unprecedented, so I guess there are people who would rather finish the job their fellow soldiers died for.

Defending the streets of Baghdad is part of defending America.

Maybe for the Regular Army, the reenlistment rate is unprecedented, but the National Guard (at least here in SC) is sucking wind.  They are going to be understrength here for the first time in over a decade and that was when their authorized strength was about 60% greater than it is now.  Also, if I remember correctly, if you get out of the regular forces at the first opportunity, you have to have a reserve obligation.  Given the way that Bush keeps calling up Reserve and Guard troops instead of increasing the size of our regular forces, I know that I'd rather just as soon get my service time done with than risk being pulled out of civilian life for what seems to be an inevitable call back to Iraq, so that may account for some of the high reenlistment rate of the regular forces.  Better to serve now and get it over with than to be wrenched out of civilian life at an unpredictable time.

We have an NG artilery unit from here that is extremely unhappy that they've been called up to do convoy duty in Iraq.  They've had to put the unit on lockdown before they shipped out because of discipline problems.

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/9703073.htm

There is no questuion that Bush has totally botched Iraq.
The question is, "Will Kerry do better?"

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

So, let me get this straight, Kerry voted for the right to go to war, but then said he meant to it as a threat, to be followed up by saying he would have made the same decision as Bush did to go to war, to now saying he wouldn't have gone to war?

I'm confused.

If I understand what Kerry is saying (at least is saying today) it is that given what he knew then, he would have made the choice to invade Iraq but he would have made better preperations but that given what we know now, he wouldn't have invaded Iraq.  It's a very sensible position that he should have been using at least three months ago.  I don't like Bush, but Kerry hasn't given me a reason to believe that he would do better, and given how poorly I think of Rumsfeld and company, that's saying an awful lot.