Kerry voted to go to war UNDER A SPECIFIC SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES that did NOT HOLD TRUE.
Kerry said "Go to war IF all other options are used up and IF we have the support of the rest of the world and IF our intelligence indicates that Iraq is a threat."
It was up to Bush to decide when those "IF'S" came true.
"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal,
murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a
particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to
miscalculation .. And now he is miscalculating America's response to his
continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass
destruction...
So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real."
- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA)
looks like deep down in his heart, Kerry felt the threat was real, and probably would have made the same decision as Bush though