I hear a lot of this "Kerry has a chance to do thing differently" position. I also hear Kerry saying that this war in Iraq is a colossel mess and that he would have done things differently. Let's dig into that a bit....

If memory serves, Kerry's position is that he has always advocated that he would have created a broader coalition and given the UN weapon's inspectors more time. At the same time, he has historically stated that Iraq was a grave threat to the safety of America and that he supported the President's efforts.

Now, let's put aside any of Kerry's subsequent changes in position and take those above and try to reason something out.....

However scarey it may be, envision President John Kerry. He has just successfully rid Afghaninstan of the Taliban tyrany and he is now looking to continue with this "War on Terror" that he started following 9/11.

Using Kerry's own position that Iraq is a grave threat to the US, it is natural for him to shift his attention to Iraq. He may delay this and spend more time in Afghanistan (which he has said), but the issue has to come up, because they are a grave threat.

What does he do? Being the President and a supporter of the UN, he has to go to them. Given his two assertions that he would have created a broader coalition and let the UN weapon's inspectors have more time, it's fair to assume that he would pressure the UN to get the weapons inspectors back on the ground.

Now, since this has been going on for over ten years in a continual trend of defiance and deceit, it's fair to assume that this would not change. Hussein would continue to completely control the UNSCUM inspector actions and then frequently throw them out of the country in defiance.

So, what we have is another four years of control via appeasement. Hussein gets to continue to defy the UN, while maintaining unending prosperity with it's Oil For Food deals. The entire time, Al Qaida terrorists continue to train in camps in northern Iraq and maintain access to Iraqi WMDs, which are confirmed to have existed by UNSCUM at the end of the original Gulf war. By allowing Hussein to remain in power and continue his previous tactics, we have now allowed him to continue to harbor the same terrrorists responsible for 9/11....Even though we had proof that these terrorists were willing to do anything to harm US interests, we have now made a conscious decision to allow this situation to continue. So, the next 9/11 incident to follow is due in part to our decision to maintain the status quo.

Now, let's assume that there was too much political pressure on President Kerry to continue to allow Hussein to defy the UN. Though he's against war, he is forced to take action. Using his second assertion from above, he would again go the UN and make a concerted effort to build a "broad coalition", which basically means that he would seek to involve France, Germany, and Russia (the big guys). Given his statements to Congress from 2002 (I believe), Kerry was already aware that none of these powers had interest in pursuing this path. Given what we now know about the deals that were in place between those three countries and Iraq, it's a fair assumption that even the great powers of pursuasion of President Kerry were to prove ineffective at bringing them onboard.

So, as President of the United States, John Kerry now is faced with having to follow through with his threats and take action in what he believes to be a threat the safety of US.

So, he goes it alone. The US is successful in removing Hussein very rapidly. Then, as we have seen, the US now gets mired in a gorilla war w/ insurgents from Iraq and neighboring countries.

The moral of this story is that Kerry is again talking out of his A$$. He knows that our "allies", had no intention of taking part in any actions that would endanger their respective deals w/ Iraq. Unless he's an idiot, he's well aware that the UN was never going to gain the cooperation of Hussein and get successful inspections by UNSCUM. So, given that, the only conclusion that one can make is that the one thing that he could have done differently is to continue to bury his head in the sand like his predecessor and allow Hussein to defy the UN and continue to harbor terrorists.

Any other course of action on Kerry's part would have led him to the same place in which we find ourselves. The only difference is that Kerry would have long since caved to political pressure, pulled out our troops, and shown the world that US is all bark and no bite.

I'll state it again....John Kerry is nothing but a spineless used car salesman who lives only for the furtherance of his own political career. If that's the type of person that you want to be in charge of the safety of your children and/or loved ones, then go ahead and vote for him......After all, anybody but Bush, right?