Kerry gets fisked

Den Beste, Smash and Vodkapundit don't have to do much but give the quotes from Time's exclusive interview.

I wonder how long the media will put up with this before they get fed up. They may look down on Bush, but they should be having bad vibes about promoting a real disaster in the White House.

Both Kerry and the interviewer seem to entangle themselves in the question of whether the war in Iraq was "worth it," and end up implying that sound policy would require that we never act on such flimsy evidence as Saddam's use of WMD in the war he instigated with Iran and against the Kurds. The mere fact that we free 25,000,000 people from his maniacal regime and are making good on our promise to build a democracy in its place, certainly doesn't make the war worth it, does it? Not if we don't find the WMD, I guess.

Of course, that doesn't take the salubrious effect the whole venture had on Libya into account. But finding WMD in Libya doesn't count. We were told that Iraq had a nuclear program.

And then there's the destructive effect this whole thing has had on our relationship with our allies. If we hadn't discovered that France and Russia had sold out to Saddam, we would still be able to rely on them in the Security Council. Could it be that Bush's big sin was that he destroyed the illusions of the left?