YASSER ARAFAT [07/14 09:52 AM]

FIRST HE SAID: "Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman.... [Terrorists] whose only object is to disrupt society require no such 'role models' as Arafat."

— The New War, by John Kerry, published June 1997

THEN HE SAID: "Obviously, Yasser Arafat has been an impediment to the peace process... As far as I'm concerned, he's an outlaw to the peace process."

— John Kerry, interview with the Associated Press, March 10, 2004


PRESIDENTIAL EXPERIENCE [07/09 05:45 PM]

FIRST HE SAID: “I think the American people want an experienced hand at the helm of state,� said Kerry, who has spent 19 years in the Senate compared with Edwards’ five. “This is not the time for on-the-job training in the White House on national security issues.� John Kerry, Feb. 3, 2004

THEN HE SAID: “I’ve seen John Edwards think, argue, advocate, legislate and lead for six years now.� John Kerry, July 6, 2004


ISRAEL'S SECURITY WALL [07/09 05:43 PM]

FIRST HE SAID: “I know how disheartened Palestinians are by the Israeli government's decision to build a barrier off the green line, cutting deeply into Palestinian areas. We do not need another barrier to peace.� John Kerry, Oct. 17 2003

THEN HE SAID: “Israel's security fence is a legitimate act of self defense.�John Kerry, Feb. 25, 2004



SUVS [06/02 02:01 PM]

FIRST HE SAID: "I don't own an SUV,'' Kerry declared when asked by reporters on Earth Day 2004.

THEN HE SAID: Asked whether or not his wife, Teresa, owned an SUV — on same conference call during which he denied owning an SUV — he fessed up, sorta: "The family has it. I don't have it." Back in February, however, he rattled off a list of Kerry household cars : "We have some SUVs. We have a Jeep. We have a couple of Chrysler minivans. We have a PT Cruiser up in Boston. I have an old Dodge 600 that I keep in the Senate. ... We also have a Chevy, a big Suburban."



CRITICIZING THE PRESIDENT DURING WAR [06/02 02:00 PM]

FIRST HE SAID: March 2003, Kerry said he would stop criticizing the president once war in Iraq began: "It's what you owe the troops....I remember being one of those guys and reading news reports from home. If America is at war, I won't speak a word without measuring how it will sound to the guys doing the fighting when they're listening to their radios in the desert."

THEN HE SAID: In early April 2003, while our troops were approaching Baghdad, Kerry said in a speech: "What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States."



HIS VIETNAM MEDALS [06/02 01:59 PM]

FIRST HE SAID: From 1971 until about a decade later, Kerry wanted people to think he threw his medals away in protest of Vietnam. In a 1971 interview, Kerry insisted that he "gave back, I can't remember, six, seven, eight, nine" of his medals.

THEN HE SAID: Around 1984, when Kerry ran for the Senate, the times changed and he wanted people to believe he kept the medals and "only" threw away the ribbons. Why? Because his union supporters in particular and voters in general were no longer enamored with the excesses of the antiwar movement.

"It's such a personal thing," he told the Washington Post in 1985. "They're my medals. I'll do what I want with them. And there shouldn't be any expectations about them. It shouldn't be a measurement of anything. People say, 'You didn't throw your medals away.' Who said I had to? And why should I? It's my business. I did not want to throw my medals away."

A decade later, he told the Boston Globe that the only reason he didn't chuck the medals was that he didn't have time to go home and get them. In April 2004, Kerry told the Los Angeles Times, "I never ever implied that I threw away the medals.
From Jonah Goldberg, "Senator Contradiction"

Read on for more of Kerry's "firm" decisions

Contradictions aren't the same thing as lies that kill.

What lies?

you mean like how Saddam lied about WMDs? Cuz we did find some, I believe Sarin nerve gas is classified as such.

The President didn't lie about the Iraqi situation, he recieved intelligence from the CIA, MI6, Russian Intel among other sources that stated Iraq possessed WMDs. This intelligence was much later proven faulty but at the time it was credible therefore Bush did not lie as he BELIEVED the intelligence was accurate just like everyone else, including Kerry who read breifings on said material

The 9/11 Commission (which is bi partisian, so you know at least Dems would have tried their best to find something to pin on the President) found nothing indicating the President intentionally lied to anyone or that the White House pressured the CIA. These are all facts.