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Was Kerry for Tora Bora before he was against it?

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Was Kerry for Tora Bora before he was against it?

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I’d always figured Kerry was on relatively strong ground criticizing the “outsourced” approach at Tora Bora because he must have criticized it at the time. But Tom Maguire of JustOneMinute has come up with a transcript of a “Larry King Live” broadcast on Dec. 14, 2001, during the month-long battle, in which (responding to a question about why we weren’t up in the caves using “napalm or flamethrowers”**) Kerry appears to actually endorse a play-it-safe, minimize-U.S.-casualties approach: But for the moment, what we are doing, I think, is having its impact and it is the best way to protect our troops and sort of minimalize the proximity, if you will. I think we have been doing this pretty effectively and we should continue to do it that way. [Emphasis added] Perhaps Kerry was only referring here to the failure to use flamethrowers (though his language can just as easily be read more broadly). But earlier in the same interview– in response to the question “how goes it so far in Afghanist

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