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and gives him a way to spin his war stance that is tough to counter

His “war stance” is that he voted in favor of the war because he was so against it.

That’s a hard sell outside of the moron-world of a Democratic primary.

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"I was an instrument of a foreign policy with no common sense. I was forced to carry an M-16 to serve that policy," he tells campaign rallies.

Kerry helped organize a huge anti-war protest outside Congress in Washington in 1971, appearing alongside Black Panther Angela Davis and earning a place on president Richard Nixon's notorious "enemies' list."

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