Deja Vu? When, you ask, when will I stop going after John Kerry? He's priceless, really. TNR's Primary has given close reading to the Boston Globe's continuing series on the Senator's life story. Today, Michael Crowley notes Kerry's odd relationship with the Grenada invasion:

Finally, Mooney seems to catch Kerry blurring his position on the U.S. invasion of Grenada. Speaking to a Cape Cod newspaper at the time, Kerry sounded appalled by the action. "The invasion of Grenada represents the Reagan policy of substituting public relations for diplomatic relations ... no substantial threat to U.S. interests existed and American lives were not endangered ... The invasion represented a bully's show of force against a weak Third World nation." These days, as Mooney writes, "Kerry often lists Grenada among the U.S. military incursions he says he has supported." Kerry told Mooney that his beef was with "the majesty of the invasion," and not the act itself. But that response doesn't really square with his earlier quote.

Sound familiar? His Iraq waffling, it would seem, has antecedents.

Oddly, in the very next piece on the page, Spencer Ackerman calls Kerry's stand on the missing WMD "brave" and says, "... Kerry is proving that he will not take the easy road when it comes to a matter of war and peace, which is downright presidential." This sounds just a little too puffy to be true, particularly given Kerry's obvious straddling on the war. Check back to that TNR analysis on WMD propaganda, noted below. See who co-authored it? Spence Ackerman. Give it about two weeks; this is about to become the DNC's wall-to-wall push issue.