The Billiken's Bluff

John Kerry, yesterday: "Iraq was the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time."

John Kerry, December: "Those who doubted whether Iraq or the world would be better off without Saddam Hussein, and those who believe today that we are not safer with his capture, don't have the judgment to be president or the credibility to be elected president."

The man went on TV after Bush to complain that Bush "mislead" us into the Iraq war. He also said two weeks ago that he would vote again for the war knowing what we know now. So a 19-year veteran of the U.S. Senate has voted for and would again vote for the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time. And he's mad that Bush mislead us into a war that he helped lead us into and now sees as wrong but also right.

What the ...? If anyone can offer anything close to an explanation to this, or indeed what this man who wants to be president actually believes about this war, I swear on my life I will vote for John Kerry - hell, I'll campaign for him and even wear one of those bush-face-with-a-line-through-it buttons that everyone wears.

And I know its constitutional tradition, but can someone please explain why we are having this election?