Zing!
From a nice WaPo article:At each stop last week, Bush regaled his audiences by noting that (Kerry) the Democrat voted for the Iraq war resolution and then "declared himself the antiwar candidate" in last winter's primaries, and now, having "found a new nuance," has said he still "agrees it was the right decision to go into Iraq."
"And I want to thank Senator Kerry for clearing that up," Bush chortled. "Although I caution you, there are still 80 days left where he could change his mind again."
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He continues by noting that everyone in Congress voted for his $87 billion appropriations request on Iraq except for a "small what I would call out-of-the-mainstream minority of 12" Democrats, "and two of those 12 are my opponent and his running mate."
"You might remember his initial explanation," Bush told partisans at the Iowa event. "He said, 'I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.' That doesn't sound like the way people in Sioux land talk. The pressure got on a little bit about that vote. Then he said, well, he's proud of the vote. And he went on to say, the whole thing is a complicated matter."
Then came what is becoming one of the standard applause lines in Bush's stump speech: "There's nothing complicated about supporting our troops in combat."
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