KERRY: Yes, we have to be steadfast and resolved, and I am. And I will
succeed for those troops, now that we're there. We have to succeed. We
can't leave a failed Iraq. But that doesn't mean it wasn't a
****mistake**** of judgment to go there...
LEHRER: All right, new question. Two minutes, Senator Kerry.
Speaking of Vietnam, you spoke to Congress in 1971, after you came
back from Vietnam, and you said, quote, "How do you ask a man to be
the last man to die for a mistake?"
LEHRER: Are Americans now dying in Iraq for a mistake?
KERRY: ****No****, and they don't have to
And Kerry wants to stop making bunker busters?? (Again paraphrasing)