I find it funny people all jumped on him for "flip-flopping". Can not someone learn down the road that there original decision might not be the best? A snip-it from John Kerry's web site.


There??s something much worse than being accused of ??flip-flopping?: refusing to flip when it??s obvious that your course of action is a flop.

I say this to President Bush as someone who learned the hard way how embracing the world??s complexity can be twisted into a crude political shorthand. Barbed words can make for great politics. But with U.S. troops in Iraq in the middle of an escalating civil war, this is no time for politics. Refusing to change course for fear of the political fallout is not only dangerous ?? it is immoral.

I??d rather explain a change of position any day than look a parent in the eye and tell them that their son or daughter had to die so that a broken policy could live.
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