Kerry made a point of noting that he had voted for the resolution in Congress that had authorized Bush to attack Iraq; Dean opposed the war.
The announcement tour was extravagantly choreographed, and at times seemed more like a military rally than a political announcement.
There were eight American flags at his back, and he appeared with eight veterans who, he reminded the crowd, served with him in Vietnam, including on a patrol boat in the Mekong Delta. It took him only two sentences in his prepared remarks before he made his first reference to his service in Vietnam.
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