While agreeing that this shows poor political skills, this doesn't contradict what Kerry said a month ago -- that knowing what we do now, he still would have given the President the authority to go to war. He's just also saying he wouldn't have used if there were no WMD. (This is not an academic distinction -- when the vote was taken, the inspectors weren't done.)
As John Stewart said to Pat Buchanan last night (that was fun to type), voting to give the President a big stick is not the same as using it to whack someone.
