SENATOR JOHN KERRY told veterans at the American Legion convention in Nashville today that America is engaged in a “global war on terror against an enemy unlike any we have known before.” But last January he called the threat from this same enemy an “exaggeration.”

During the January 29, 2004 Democratic primary debate in South Carolina, Kerry was asked by NBC’s Tom Brokaw if the Bush administration had exaggerated the threat of terrorism. To which Kerry responded: “I think there has been an exaggeration.”