KERRY: DUPED BY A DOPE
Christopher Hitchens guts John Kerry's "I was misled" defense.Given that Kerry once went all the way to Vietnam under some kind of misapprehension about a war for democracy and launched a political career on the basis of what he finally learned when it was much too late, one might be tempted to discern a pattern here. But that temptation should probably be discarded. The Tonkin Gulf resolution was fabricated out of whole cloth (by a Democratic president, building on the legacy of another JFK from Massachusetts), and not even the most Stalinized of the Vietnamese leadership ever ran a regime, or proposed an ideology, as vile as that of Saddam Hussein.
"Vote for me. I'm easily fooled." Heh. Could've been Jimmy Carter's slogan, though.











