[Torie]

Actually that is not what Kerry said. What he said was his great and original plan to get others to share the burden, train Iraqi troops, etc. would prove so successful, that it would be realistic to think he could wrap it up on his watch, and start bringing the boys and girls home early on his watch. The guy was over-promising in a word (something that Bush is rather too skillful at admittedly, but Kerry is so much better at), and just "Bidening" what is in fact the Bush plan. Kerry also is slipping into the mode of suggesting it was all a mistake from the getgo. That is a risky thing to say, vis a vis the morale of the troops, the implicit suggestion that he would favor leaving Saddam in power (something Kerry has been very careful to avoid suggesting) but then Kerry needs to take risks.

Bush just needs to respond, in a gravitas mode. They are no magic bullets for Iraq.

[BigKahuna]

Kerry was already torpedoed last night by the French foreign minister, I believe, who said that there still would be no conceivable situation in which France would send peacekeeping troops into Iraq (they already help to train the new Iraqi police forces).

[Howlin]

is slipping into the mode of suggesting it was all a mistake from the getgo.

Kerry is becoming Dean, IMO. It's the only place he has left to go.

And if you can think of a war or a national policy toward another country's freedom that Kerry has been in favor of, let me know.

As far as I'm concerned, the speech he made today was just a rewrite of the speech he made on Senior Day at Yale when he trashed Lyndon Johnson. In fact, that's what his entire career has come to be.

[Mo1]

What he said was his great and original plan to get others to share the burden, train Iraqi troops, etc.

Yea yea .. and his Foreign Policy Adviser Dr. Rice, was on FNC tonight saying how we need to fight the terrorists there and not at home

Does any of this sound familiar???

It should because Bush is ALREADY doing this stuff