Is Kerry Ignorant or Cynical?

I ended my post 10 hours ago asking this question. Catching up on my Lileks, he addresses the same analysis to Iraq and France. "Kerry’s statement indicates that either he doesn’t know about the French government’s vested financial interests in Iraq, or he does know and thinks we don’t." Ignorant or cynical? Well, Mr Kerry, I think Goldfinger said it best, "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third time is enemy action." If I catch the candidate in this kind of situation again, I'm just going to assume that he's cynically manipulating the electorate, or trying to.