It's amazing that Kerry was actually somewhat consistent on this subject before he started flopping around, trying to woo the Dean-leftists in the primaries. The flip-flops are comical in a way, but they also do much to condemn his character and his suitability as a commmander-in-chief...
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"We know we can't count on the French. We know we can't count on the Russians. We know that Iraq is a danger to the United States, and we reserve the right to take pre-emptive action whenever we feel it's in our national interest."
-John Kerry, on CNN's Crossfire, 1997.
"I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force-- if necessary-- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security."
-John Kerry, October 2002.
"The Iraqi regime's record over the decade leaves little doubt that Saddam Hussein wants to retain his arsenal of weapons of mass destruction and to expand it to include nuclear weapons. We cannot allow him to prevail in that quest. The weapons are an unacceptable threat."
-John Kerry, remarks to Senate, May 2002.
"Iraq may not be the war on terror itself, but it is critical to the outcome of the war on terror, and therefore any advance in Iraq is an advance forward in that..."
-John Kerry, Dec 2003.
"I said at the time I would have preferred if we had given diplomacy a greater opportunity, but I think it was the right decision to disarm Saddam Hussein, and when the President made the decision, I supported him, and I support the fact that we did disarm him.
-John Kerry, ABC News, Democrat Presidential Candidate Debate, June 2003.