Return of the classic Lurch quote, “I was for it before I was against it.”

Via Washington Examiner:

. . . Kerry told Hayes though that the president sought only a limited action and denied he would pull the U.S. into another “war.”

“I’ve thought a lot about this. I know the lessons of war. I don’t believe this is taking America to war,” he said.

Kerry downplayed his own vote to authorize military action in Iraq in 2002, saying he was “opposed” to that war and had been persuaded by misleading evidence.

“When I was a senator [I] opposed the president’s decision to go into Iraq,” he told Hayes. “But we know full well how that evidence was used to persuade all of us that authority ought to be given.”