John Kerry's speech this week on Iraq has resulted in President Bush saying that he has taken a new position on the war. This isn't true, and it's an indictment of the media that they're too lazy to actually research just how consistent Kerry has been on the war since the vote to authorize force in 2002. His position is summed up quite simply in this paragraph from the Monday speech:

"Two years ago, Congress was right to give the President the authority to use force to hold Saddam Hussein accountable. This President… any President… would have needed the threat of force to act effectively. This President misused that authority."

Now go read Kerry's Senate floor speech from October 9, 2002, and it becomes very clear that his position has been consistent. Here's one key paragraph from that speech courtesy of Independents for Kerry:

"In giving the President this authority, I expect him to fulfill the commitments he has made to the American people in recent days--to work with the United Nations Security Council to adopt a new resolution setting out tough and immediate inspection requirements, and to act with our allies at our side if we have to disarm Saddam Hussein by force. If he fails to do so, I will be among the first to speak out."