Reply #82: You are doing the misrepresenting

[Dr Ron]

That is not what Kerry said at the grand canyon. He said he would have voted to give the authorization to use force, believing any President should have such authorization to back themselves up with, but would have used the authorization differently--to seak a diplomatic settlement. He later agreed he should not have given Bush the authorization after the Downing Street Memos proved that Bush had no intention of seekking a diplomatic solution.

Kerry did not have to know at the time how Bush would use the resolution. Bush was saying at the time that he planned to seek a diplomatic solution. As I posted elsewhere, this is what Bush was saying just before the war:

"Later this week, the United States Congress will vote on this matter. I have asked Congress to authorize the use of America’s military, if it proves necessary, to enforce U.N. Security Council demands. Approving this resolution does not mean that military action is imminent or unavoidable. The resolution will tell the United Nations, and all nations, that America speaks with one voice and is determined to make the demands of the civilized world mean something."

As for Dean, he has many statements considering war. For example:

Jake Tapper writes, " is -- 'as I've said about eight times today,' says, annoyed -- that Saddam must be disarmed, but with a multilateral force under the auspices of the United Nations. If the U.N. in the end chooses not to enforce its own resolutions, then the U.S. should give Saddam 30 to 60 days to disarm, and if he doesn't, unilateral action is a regrettable, but unavoidable, choice.
--Jack Tapper in Salon, February 20, 2003

There's many more such comments from Dean. If you want to cherry pick quotations it is possible to claim that either one supported the war.

The fact is that neither supported the war under the circumstances which existed, and neither would have gone to war if President. You are misrepresenting Kerry's position when you claim he was supporting the war or that his position was significantly different from Dean's.