Reply #5: There's no contradiction here. [View All]

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Kerry's position on the IWR vote has been consistent from the beginning. The IWR was not a declaration of war. It gave the president the authority to go to the UN with a strong bargaining position. Kerry always intended, and said so from the first, that the president should seek UN and multilateral solutions, beginning with inspections and using force only as a last resort.

As far as the WMD talk is concerned, the Bush administration lied to the Senate as elaborately and shameless as they lied to the UN and to us. Most of the nation got behind Bush on the eve of the invasion because they trusted him. Now they know he's a liar. Kerry can speak to that issue better than most - he's been where the public has been all the way along.