[An extended update of this post can be found here.]
Next week Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will make a speech before Congress in which he is expected to oppose the reported terms of the nuclear agreement that the U.S. and Iran are getting close to finalizing. Ahead of that speech, in testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday, Secretary of State John Kerry tried to discredit Prime Minister Netanyahu by noting he had supported the invasion of Iraq in 2003:
“The prime minister, as you will recall, was profoundly forward-leaning and outspoken about the importance of invading Iraq under George W. Bush, and we all know what happened with that decision.”
What Secretary Kerry seems to have forgotten, however, is that he, Vice President Joe Biden, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton all supported the invasion, too. All three of them voted for the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002. But then, I guess you can say Secretary Kerry was for the war before he was against it.
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