The Long War of John Kerry, By Joe Klein

(EXCERPT) Posted 2004-01-05

This week in the magazine and here online (see Fact), Mark Singer
profiles the Democratic Presidential hopeful Howard Dean, the doctor
and former governor of Vermont who has become an insurgent leader in
the primary race, in part owing to his early criticism of the war in
Iraq. In this article from 2002, Joe Klein profiles Dean’s Democratic
rival Senator John Kerry, of Massachusetts, who supported military
action in Iraq, and who was himself a war hero.

On a rainy October morning, the day after Senator John Forbes Kerry,
of Massachusetts, announced that he would reluctantly vote to give
President George W. Bush the authority to use lethal force against
Iraq, the Senator sat in his Capitol Hill office reminiscing about
another war and a...

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