Reply #4: Can someone who knows a lot about Senator John Kerry comment on this?

[Boojatta]

Future Tense: The Coming World Order - talks about the global battle between neocons and jihadists

Page 133 includes these words:

There was certainly a shift in the American public mood towards impatience with international institutions and a growing obsession with America's military power as the 1990s neared their end. That mood was reflected in Clinton's last defence budgets, which started going back up after 1998, as well as in his inability to get such innocuous multilateral agreements as the land-mines treaty and the International Criminal Court accepted by the Congress and his own military. But the Democrats showed no interest in a resurrected Pax Americana while Clinton was in office.

The fact that a lot of them voted in 2002 for Bush's invasion of Iraq
only proves that they were either gullible (and believed the cooked intelligence that they were served) or extremely cynical (and believed that they were giving Bush enough rope to hang himself). In the case of Senate Majority leader Tom Daschle and Senator John Kerry it was unquestionably the latter: they consistently and successfully argued that to attack Bush on the "war on terror," civil liberties, or the invasion of Iraq would be to walk into the trap set by Karl Rove, the president's political strategist. If Bush's war prospered, he would win the next election anyway; if it did not, at least the Republicans would not be able to blame the failure on the Democrats.

Note: the book is printed in black ink. I changed the color of some words to red for emphasis.