"Authority to go to war" is not, as some might think, a blank check, but an expression of trust in the president, to go to war, if necessary, as a last resort.

Kerry and the rest of us have learned to our sorrow that we could not in fact trust this president to make this momentous decision. In fact we have learned he can't be trusted to make the right decision on virtually any issue.

Just for that one wrong decision, responsible for killing large numbers of people (we can argue about the numbers), he richly deserves to be voted out.