February 08, 2004

CNN.com - Kerry: Bush told 'stories' about Iraqi prewar threat

"The problem is not just that [Bush] is changing his story now -- it is that it appears he was telling the American people stories in 2002," [John F.] Kerry said. "He told America that Iraq had chemical weapons two months after his own Defense Intelligence Agency told him that there was, quote, 'no reliable information on whether Iraq is producing and stockpiling chemical weapons."

Asked about his support for a Senate resolution making war an option, Kerry responded, "We voted for a process" with assurance from the Bush administration that weapons of mass destruction were "the only rationale for going to war."

Bush, however, said in his "Meet the Press" interview that "Congress saw the same intelligence I had, and they looked at exactly what I looked at, and they made an informed judgment based upon the information that I had."
Click here for four other justifications for Kerry's vote on the war resolution.