Silly me! How could I have forgotten? - Kerry has a plan. He told us so, after all. And his plan is that we don't have enough troops, except, er, that we need to bring the troops home. It's not his fault if the little people can't understand. Teresa will soon be brought out to explain it to us in French, Spanish and Portuguese.
Kerry's plan is a 'secret' plan, I guess.
But seriously, the media is just doing what it always does: build you up, just to tear you down.
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