Kerry on Cspan2 now - senate floor speech blasting WH and GOP spokespeople

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who go on the talk shows and use straw man arguments to describe Dem proposals.

Says we can be out of Iraq within a year with concentrated diplomatic WILL and by beginning to draw down troops sooner.

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1. Going after Cheney about how to REALLY SUPPORT the troops.

Links the decisionmakers' lack of service to Walter Reed atrocities and the lack of veterans' care and poor equipment support for troops.

The surge numbers are showing an intent for a LONGER strategy not a temporary strategy as they first explained it.