Flip Flop, Flip Flop...

My goodness I'm getting whiplash. Kerry now says he would not have ousted a brutal dictator:

NEW YORK (AP) - Staking out new ground on Iraq, Sen. John Kerry said Monday he would not have overthrown Saddam Hussein had he been in the White House, and he accused President Bush of "stubborn incompetence," dishonesty and colossal failures of judgment. Bush said Kerry was flip-flopping.
Less than two years after voting to give Bush authority to invade Iraq, the Democratic candidate said the president had misused that power by rushing to war without the backing of allies, a post-war plan or proper equipment for U.S. troops. "None of which I would have done," Kerry said.
"Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator who deserves his own special place in hell," he added. "But that was not, in itself, a reason to go to war. The satisfaction we take in his downfall does not hide this fact: We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure."
Bush hit back from a campaign rally in New Hampshire, interpreting Kerry's comment to mean the Democrat believes U.S. security would be better with Saddam still in power. "He's saying he prefers the stability of a dictatorship to the hope and security of democracy," the Republican incumbent said.

This from the candidate who said two months ago that he would have voted to remove Saddam sans WMD:

That's why it was not surprising that John Kerry insisted Monday that, even with the benefit of hindsight, he still would have supported the 2002 congressional resolution giving George W. Bush authority to invade Iraq. "Yes, I would have voted for the authority," the Democratic nominee said while campaigning at the Grand Canyon in Arizona. "I believe it was the right authority for the president to have."

This is the sound of a campaign imploding.