Sen. Kerry called it right on Petraeus' report when Congress voted on funding in May

[ProSense]

This allows the president to certify whatever the president wants, to waive whatever the president wants. And I promise to my colleagues, we will be back here in September having the same debate with the same benchmark questions and they will not have moved in their accountability. -- John Kerry, speech during funding vote in May

And he has been speaking out every since.

Kerry: I think General Patreaus will present the facts with respect to the statistics and the tactical successes or situations as he sees them. But none of us should be fooled into this tactical success debate. We’ll never have enough troops to provide the kind of tactical success in one community or another across all of Iraq. So the only way is to have political reconciliation. Until that happens things are going to get more tense. I think they’re courting disaster. You can take a tactical success and misread it as we did in Vietnam. -- John Kerry, ABC This Week, September 9

We don’t have to wait until September to know that we need a new policy.

The Escalation Didn't Work

When the Wall Street Journal launched this RW PR campaign, Sen. Kerry was right there to debunk it.

Where are the other Dems, especially the canidates?

[sampsonblk]

1. Kerry is on the money on all points

[babylonsister]

2. He was spot on-rec'd. NT

[ProSense]

3. Kick! n/t

[Cameron27]

4. He sure did.

I can't wait for Petraeus to be grilled by him after this report.

[ProSense]

5. Kick! n/t

[politicasista]

6. K&R

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[jillan]

8. It makes me so mad - and sad

If only Kerry was where he was suppose to be, we wouldn't even be having this discussion.
Iraq wouldn't be in this mess.
There would have been no surge.
Most - if not all - of our troops would be home.
And we wouldn't have to keep having these threads proving that Kerry was right once again.




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[robinlynne]

9. right on. When they voted to fund "the surge", I thought the deal was: all benchmarks

met or we end the war." Am I crazy? Wasn't the surge supposedly the last try for the last time? That is what i remember being said. How do you all remember congress' position?