I still don't believe it helps Kerry any.
The day after the test, Condi and Colin were on the wires denying it was nuclear. That says a lot to me.
And the attack on Iraq was not ridiculous. I was just the logic consequence of a number of factors. (What good is being the only remaining superpower if you cannot "profit" from it? --BTW: I'm not condoning it. Just stating a fact...)
It was ridiculus to me. It raises the possiblity of a nuclear bomb going off in some city in the US, and at that point, any form of democracy will be dead in this country (I believe Chomsky says this). Invading and bungling the occupation is Osamas dream come true. Al Queada was in decline in 2002, and now it has resurged and grown bigger, according to the intelligence here and abroad.
The CIA was telling the neocons that invading would increase the likelyhood of terrorists attack, not decrease it. And seeing what happened in Spain and Turkey, it looks like they were right.