August 11, 2004

I am stunned to learn John Kerry has announced that he would have voted to give the president the authority to attack Iraq even if he knew there were no weapons of mass destruction to be found there. That announcement will do nothing less than cause some rabid anti-war Kerry supporters to cast their votes for renegade Ralph Nader, while giving aid and support to his incumbent opponent in the upcoming presidential debates.

Tell me it isn’t so: Is John Kerry as stupid and ill advised as was Howard Dean? It appears he may be, and possibly worse.

It is a fact that as a Massachusetts senator, Kerry voted for the blatantly non-constitutional “resolution” to illegally hand over the exclusive constitutional congressional power to declare war on Iraq to the president back in October of 2002.

Had Kerry any respect whatsoever for his oath, and a healthy knowledge of the plainly written Constitution, he would have known that Congress has no authority under the Constitution to transfer the authority to declare war to the Executive Branch – or to any other branch of government. If the authority to hand over the power to declare war is not explicitly given Congress by the Constitution, then the act is expressly forbidden under Article X of the Bill of Rights.

Until now, Kerry could have hidden behind the perpetually wrong argument that the ends justified the means most of his other colleagues used to approve that onerous resolution; that being that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, and that he intended to use them against United States interests imminently.

But now, Kerry has inadvertently leveled the playing field regarding any future war debate. He has played right into George W. Bush’s hand, and Bush will use Kerry’s words against him with aplomb. No doubt about it: Kerry and his team are idiots.

I just wrote a friend that there are three more months where anything can happen, but that if the election were held today, Kerry would win decisively. Well, anything just did happen, and I can’t wait for Kerry to let the other shoe drop. What’ll it be next, candidate Kerry??

Carl F. Worden

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