The Leopard Changes His Spots

Funny what five years will do. Sen. John Kerry, Dem presidential candidate, has been beating the drum that President Bush has "misled America" into the Iraqi war by lying about WMDs. Drudge has the goods [update: Hugh Hewitt has archived some this to a more permanent page in case Drudge cleans up]:

"In my judgment, the Security Council should authorize a strong U.N. military response that will materially damage, if not totally destroy, as much as possible of the suspected infrastructure for developing and manufacturing weapons of mass destruction, as well as key military command and control nodes. Saddam Hussein should pay a grave price, in a currency that he understands and values, for his unacceptable behavior. This should not be a strike consisting only of a handful of cruise missiles hitting isolated targets primarily of presumed symbolic value."

(Sen. John Kerry, Congressional Record, 11/9/97, pp. S12254 -S12255)

Were the UN arms inspectors really SO effective in 2002 that military action was no longer necessary? Methinks Election 2004 has already begun.