I'm old enough to have actually heard Kerry speak at anti-war rallies and I remember the Winter Soldier hearings. My husband was a Vietnam vet.
So I do know Kerry's history of activism in the anti-war movement, and I truly admired him in those years.
But he has not been anti-Iraq war in his statements. Rather he complains of Bush's mismanagement of the war and says that he can do better.
One of the lessons learned by the anti-war movement back then was that we could not abdicate our independent activism to electoral politics. LBJ was a case in point.
I do agree in the need to dump Bush... hell yes! But I am disturbed that we have abandoned mass anti-war demonstrations to work exclusively on GOTV.
Hopefully our organizations like moveon.org will not go into 'wait mode' believing that Kerry will end the war on his own after he is elected president.