We had almost everyone except France on our side......and France has NO track record of lowering the risks to our soldiers. Considering how tough it is for our soldiers now, imagine how much more difficult it would be over there if they were having to babysit French "soldiers" as well as fight.
Kerry wants to pull out our troops so the French and Germans can send theirs in. Why the heck would they want to? What's in it for them other than having THEIR soldiers shot at and beheaded? He must be living in a parallel universe where they would go along with a demonstration of American spinelessness by being tougher on terrorists than America.