Perhaps you can answer this question. Based on John Kerry's anti-war activities in the 70's, and his no vote to remove Saddam Hussein from Kuwait, and his pronouncement to bring the troops home quickly from Iraq, which was was Kerry's more intellectually honest vote: to authorize war OR his no vote on authorization to fund it? And why?
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"Use It" asks an easy question. First, where did Kerry say he wants to bring home troops quickly from Iraq, in a way that was different from any normal person who OF COURSE wants to bring the troops home quickly from Iraq?
And as for Kerry's vote on funding authorization: If you know--and senators always know; that's what 'vote counting" means--that a bill is about to pass overwhelmingly, voting against it can be the only way you can protest some of its provisions. In Kerry's case it was the refusal of Bush in the $87 billion bill to ask for any sacrifice from Americans who were getting tax cuts.
What was more intellectually dishonest: that vote, or the Bush admnistration's understanding that they're asking for less money than they'll really need for Iraq?
Rick