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...Kerry is primed for this line of attack. He has had many years not just to refine his political philosophy but also to explain it in a way voters might accept and with luck even admire. Throw the Latte Liberal label at him, and Kerry will counter with his support for faith-based programs and welfare reform and the fact that he proposed a dividend tax cut long before Bush did. "They're going to have a hard time pinning that to me," Kerry once told TIME. "They're not going to find it is easy making me something...
...problem is not that Kerry voted for a war that most Americans still say they support. The problem is what he said about his reasoning when the vote became toxic among the Democratic faithful. Under pressure to explain, he declared during his announcement speech, "I voted to threaten the use of force to make Saddam Hussein comply with the resolutions of the United Nations." Threaten? Even at the time, it was clear the resolution was more than an invitation to rattle a sword. "Everyone knew what was going on," says a senior Democratic Senate aide. "People understood we were giving...
...took Kerry many news cycles to get to the point where he could explain his stance coherently. He finally argued that he had to vote as though he were President--that for Bush to maximize his leverage at the U.N., he needed to show that Congress was behind him. But then, Kerry argues, Bush broke his side of the deal by barely going through the motions to assemble the kind of international coalition that his father had 11 years before, stomping headlong into war, trampling valuable alliances and precedents, and then utterly botching the peace...
...TIME: Explain why you voted against the Iraq-war resolution in 1991 but voted for the Iraq-war resolution...
...years. He told an audience of 13 million that he intended to appeal and would not honor his earlier pledge to quit politics if he lost the case. "One doesn't slide the key under the doormat and abruptly leave people who say they need you," Juppé explained. Who needs Juppé? Chirac, for one. The 71-year-old President has no other credible successor - and if Juppé leaves the scene, it could clear the way for a man Chirac is said to loathe and perhaps fear: Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, the most popular conservative politician in France...