[Howlin]

"Does that mean allies are going to trade their young for our young in body bags? I know they are not. I know that," he said. Asked about that statement later, Mr. Kerry said, "When I was referring to that, I was really talking about Germany and France and some of the countries that had been most restrained." "Other countries are obviously more willing to accept responsibilities," he added, as he took questions from reporters in a school yard in Tipton, Iowa.

Can somebody explain that to me?

[The KG9 Kid]

It's meaningless media-placating filler designed to open an escape route for Kerry to the campaign bus.

[kattracks]

"Other countries are obviously more willing to accept responsibilities,"

Yes they are, and they are already with us in Iraq.

[browardchad]

Can somebody explain that to me?

Translation:

"I am a liberal/pacifist/transnational progressive who plans to hand America the same ignominious defeat I helped engineer in Vietnam, while at the same time abandoning hundreds of thousands of Iraqis to slaughter by jihadists, just as the Cambodians were slaughtered through my efforts -- but you, my MSM enablers, know damn well I can't say that, so spin this."