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Originally posted by sgtclub
The flip flop is that he has previously said that Bush mislead us in to war, but he would have voted for it even without WMD. Is that a coherent position?
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Yes. That position is absolutely coherent. If you think not, please reread what you wrote and think about it hard.
What you're objecting to is that Kerry's trying hard to have it both ways -- just like most politicians. However, that doesn't make the position incoherent, or a flip-flop.
For instance: Say some acquaintance/friend made up some excuse about an emergency to get you to lend him fifty bucks. In truth, he just wanted to buy beer for a party, but had blown all his cash at the bars last weekend. Your friend has misled you into giving him fifty bucks. However, it is not incoherent for you to say that you'd have given him the money anyhow, if you had known the truth. [But that he is an untrustworthy dick for misleading you.]
S_A_M
