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In reply to the discussion: Senate Approves John Kerry As Secretary of State [View all]karynnj
(59,503 posts)decision. Kerry, like Biden and most of the SFRC members voted because they wanted to give Bush the leverage to get intensive inspections - which did happen AFTER October 2002 and before March 2003 and found nothing. The vote was wrong because it gave Bush their support - and though it laid out Bush's promises, it had no way to stop him. In fact, the Downing Street memos show that they would have attacked with no resolution. The main thing bad the IWR did was to let Bush say the invasion was bipartisan.
Kerry said throughout 2004 that Bush misled us into war. He was speaking not of the wmd, but that he did few of the things he promised he would do. Bush himself said that the vote was not a vote for war before the vote. He also has repeatedly said that he regretted that vote and he, with Feingold pushed the need for a timeline to get out - that ultimately became first the Democratic position and later was what Bush did - and how we got out.