ThenOct 11, 2002“I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force, if necessary, to disarm Saddam Hussein.”
NowSep 30, 2004“I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.”
Kerry voted to authorize the Iraq War, then ran for president as an anti-war candidate, and his own words crystallized the contradiction: voting for something before voting against it