Kerry on September 14, 2001

Republicans protesters who show up with flip-flops, disrupting Kerry campaigns, should well remember what Senator Kerry told a radio interview in an interview on September 14, 2001 that President Bush should not take this moment in history to use "this as an excuse to invade a country that had nothing to do with the events of September 11th. A very clear example: For instance, if Iraq had nothing to do with what happened, you can't use this as a pretext to suddenly attack, as much as you don't like Saddam Hussein."

Kerry's vote later on to support the President was contigent upon Bush using wisdom and true leadership, not belligerent swagger.