Flip Flop is Crap Crop

I could use a break from the constant barrage of the "flip flop" talking point coming out of Dubya's campaign. It seems no matter what John Kerry says, Bush counters that it's a "flip flop." Nevermind that Kerry has been remarkably consistent in his attitudes toward the "War on Terror" and the war in Iraq. (Note that they are two different things. Wake up, world.)

So as far as I can tell, Kerry's positions have been:
1. We should have fought longer and harder in Afghanistant to take out Al Qaeda leaders and operatives
2. It was right to give the President the power to go into war against Iraq.
3. The way the President handled the war was wrong: lack of diplomacy, lack of a post-invastion plan, lack of leadership, lack of intelligence, lack of WMD and other justifcation for war.

Has he wavered from these positions? Nope. Has he explained them over and over. Yup. Are they a bit more complex than what Dubya communicates to the world? Yup. And there's the rub. Unfortunately for Kerry, who tends to think stuff through, Dubya is quite comfortable with black and white, and that comfort and simplicity is easy to communicate. So what if the War on Terror is being waged (incorrectly) in Iraq, which has been shown to have NOTHING to do with Sept. 11. So what if the rationale for the Iraq War was incorrect? It's all bad, and they're all against, so keep fighting.

Who's the real flip flopper? It's Dubya