Yeah, it was so damn tough to "correctly identify a serious problem in the world" after a couple of fundie Muslims blasted into a couple buildings with airplanes.

The problem I'm having with your take on this Whistle Stop is that you aren't looking realistically at where we are at in the process. Kerry and Edwards are hedging on the war because it is the primary season, not the general election season.

Once the general election season is upon them, you will be able to see much more clearly where they stand on the war. Although the ways that Cheney/Bush have fucked things up have now become the much larger problem.

Kerry has been pretty clear on his position so far, IMO. He has said repeatedly that he wouldn't have dissed the international community, that he would have listened to the intelligence coming from our other allies (France and Germany), which turned out to be right and ours wrong, and that if he had been in charge, he likely would have stuck with the UN weapons inspectors and containment, not a pre-emptive invasion of Iraq.

That doesn't seem to difficult to understand, in my book.