Via Opinion Journal, Debra Saunders finds Kerry’s explanation of Bush’s address to the UN on the eve of war in October of 2002 suspect. And no wonder, Kerry claimed Bush lied by telling the truth.

IT’S AN ODD campaign gimmick, but Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., often tells voters that he was “misled” and that’s why he voted for an October 2002 resolution authorizing military force against Iraq.
Kerry says he believed the resolution tied President Bush to promises to build an international coalition, to work with the United Nations and only go to war as a last resort. A disappointed Kerry now says Bush failed in all three venues.

Fair enough. I suppose that one might think that if one didn’t know of Bush’s activities in the UN before the war. This is what Bush told the UN a month before Kerry voted YES to grant war powers to Bush:

“Saddam Hussein has defied the United Nations 16 times. Not once, not twice — 16 times he has defied the U. N. The U.N. has told him after the (Persian) Gulf War what to do, what the world expected, and 16 times he’s defied it. And enough is enough. The U.N. will either be able to function as a peacekeeping body as we head into the 21st century, or it will be irrelevant. And that’s what we’re about to find out.“

Okay, Mr. Kerry, what do you have to say about that?

“I think that you had a hard-line group (then Pentagon adviser) Richard Perle, (Deputy Defense Secretary) Paul Wolfowitz and probably (Vice President Dick) Cheney. But when Brent Scowcroft and Jim Baker (former advisers to the first President Bush) weighed in, very publicly in op-eds in the New York Times and the (Washington) Post, the chatter around Washington and (Secretary of State Colin) Powell in particular, who was very much of a different school of thought, was really that the president hadn’t made up his mind. He was looking for an out. That’s what a lot of people thought.“

Interesting. And so what Bush said…

“That was ‘rhetorical’. So most people, actually on the inside, really felt that (Bush) himself was looking for the way out to sort of satisfy Cheney, satisfy Wolfowitz, but not get stuck. The fact that he jumped and went the other way, I think, shocked them and shocked us.“

Can I say that John Kerry mislead America about his belief that he was mislead by Bush about going to war with Iraq because some things he has said DON’T EFFING MAKE SENSE?!!!!
(Ed. You can, but remember, he did serve in Vietnam.)
He gives “talking out of both sides of his mouth” a new definition.