Kerry on Iraq

Can anyone tell me what John Kerry's position on the war in Iraq is? I honestly don't know. Today he states that going after Saddam undermines the war on terror because it takes away from the effort to go after Bin Laden. Couple this with a statement a few days ago where he sais the war was "the wrong war, at the wrong time", and you would think he was an anti-war candidate. That conclusion would be ignoring the fact that he voted for the use of force, that in December 2001 he said that going after Saddam Hussein is a necessary part of the war on terror "regardless of his involvement in 9/11". And just a few weeks ago, he stated that he would vote again to support the war, even knowing everything we now know (concerning weapons of mass destruction). What gives?

At one point I thought Kerry's position was in support of the war, but that Bush had mismanaged it (and theoretically that he could do better). That does not seem to be his position this week. He seems to now be appealing to Nader, Dean, and Pat Buchanan (!?) supporters by claiming the war was a mistake and that capturing Saddam has not made us safer. (In the same speech, his calls Bush an extremist politician, which I guess he would be compared to Nader, Dean, and Buchanan - an extremely centrist . That position may change in a week though. Either the war in Iraq was a mistake, or it was justified. Only one of those two can be true. Kerry seems to think both, in an argument that defies all logic. Maybe he's actually saying "the war in Iraq was a mistake, and I would vote for it again" - I don't think I need to say what that would imply.