Kerry is spinning the obvious here. The Flypaper Strategy was supposed to occupy Al Qaeda in Iraq and give Al Qaeda an excuse to have a truce with America on US soil. The strategy calls for the enemy to consistently perceive they have a chance in Iraq (and nowhere else) until well beyond the point at which they have spent most of their resources and good will with the Sunni arab world...and still lose in Iraq.
Kerry is stating the obvious, but as with the Vietnam War, he is spinning it as a "failure" on our part when it is actually a clever victory on our part.
Remember that the main constituency of the Democrats are the American poor and uneducated and the "easily swayed".
With Vietnam, turning China in 1972 was almost the be-all and end-all of American strategic foreign policy in Southeast Asia. It might have been nice to keep Cam Ranh Bay out of Soviet hands after that point, but it wasn't a strategic loss 3 years later when our liberals stabbed us and our allies in the back regarding SE Asia.
But guys like Kerry can just simplisticly point to 58,500 war dead and say "it was all a mistake" and the common brain dead citizen would think "I guess that about sums it up."
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After JOHN KERRY and TED KENNEDY helped fool us into leaving a then Free South Vietnam behind to its fate at the hands of invading bullies from the Communist North long ago,
...came:
Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education Camp
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
And these two are back at it again to do the same to a now Free Iraq ...with our own Freedom directly at stake right here at home.
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